Re: Modules but not extensions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Modules but not extensions
Date: 2018-11-11 20:09:07
Message-ID: a7bffb65-a2b0-f76b-af3d-b0150e9dc9a1@2ndquadrant.com
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On 10/11/2018 11:08, Ron wrote:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/contrib.html says " some of these
> modules are not "extensions" in this sense, but are loaded into the
> server in some other way, for instance by way of
> shared_preload_libraries. *See the documentation of each module for
> details*."
>
> So I looked in https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/adminpack.html but it
> doesn't mention how it's loaded. 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/auth-delay.html does, though, say
> that it must be loaded using shared_preload_libraries.
>
> Does this imply "silence means it's an extension"?

It seems so, but it could be clearer.

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