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Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-02-11T00:11:04Z
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> First off, I don't much care for the name "CREATE WRAPPER EXTENSION".

> What's the WRAPPER bit for? I've forgotten.

It's to tell it to create an empty extension in preparation for
absorbing pre-existing objects from an old-style contrib module.
See what I mean?  WRAPPER is not a useful keyword here.

			regards, tom lane