Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-02-12T23:12:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes: > On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I did think of another idea besides forbidding dash in extension names: >> what if we use double dash as the name/version separator, > +1 You might even consider mandating a double-dash between versions, so that they could have dashes: > extension--oldversion--newversion.sql Hm. I think we'd still have to disallow dash as the first or last character in a version name to make that unambiguous. Not sure it's worth the trouble. regards, tom lane