Re: why two dashes in extension load files

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Are we deparsing the names of the SQL files to infer the set of
>> version numbers we have to worry about?  It seems to me that if
>> there's a list of known version numbers somewhere, we can use dash as
>> the separator without any special restricton.
>
> The list of known version numbers is inferred from the available files,
> not vice versa.  IMO that's a feature not a bug.  A manually maintained
> list would just be one more thing to forget to update.

I could go either way on that one; I was just throwing it up against
the wall to see whether it would stick.

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