Re: Finer Extension dependencies

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>

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

Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-04-02T19:04:06Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Apr 2, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> Sounds like a lot of work for core to maintain various version comparison schemes
> 
> Well, the primary argument for avoiding version comparison semantics to
> begin with was exactly that we didn't want to mandate a particular
> version-numbering scheme.  However, if we're going to decide that we
> have to have version comparisons, I think we should just bite the bullet
> and specify one version numbering scheme.  More than one is going to add
> complexity, sow confusion, and not really buy anything.

Precisely my thinking.

Best,

David