Re: Support for CREATE MODULE?

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-02T15:11:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 6/2/21 10:43 AM, Jim Mlodgenski wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:58 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I wonder whether it'd be better to consider modules as a kind of
>> extension, or at least things with the same sort of ownership relations
>> as extensions have.
> 
> That would solve the problem of associating objects which is the larger
> problem for users today. The objects can all live in their respective
> schemas with the module tying them all together.


Maybe something similar to "CREATE EXTENSION ... FROM unpackaged"?

Something like:
CREATE EXTENSION myfoo; /* shell extension */
ALTER EXTENSION myfoo ADD type ...;
ALTER EXTENSION myfoo ADD function ...;
...

Joe

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