Re: Use a separate pg_depend.deptype for extension membership?

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> writes:
>> Do you really think the new dependency type has to be re-usable easily
>> in the future? DEPENDENCY_EXTENSION ('e') would look fine by me.
>
> Hmm ... Haas suggested that too, but to me it seems confusing: which way
> does such a dependency point? But if others don't find it so, I'm
> willing to go with the majority.

Well the behavior we want is the same as the DEPENDENCY_INTERNAL one, in
about all cases (e.g. DROP SCHEMA CASCADE). So I think it'd be easier
to stick with doing it the same. And then the need for specializing the
dependency kind name just raises too…

My 2¢ anyway,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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