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Re: Inline Extension

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-01-23T15:46:55Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Hmm, I don't think I like that design.  I think we should view this as
> a way to embed the SQL and control files needed by the extension in
> the server, rather than a separate thing called an inline extension.
> If pg_dump is going to dump those files, it ought to dump them all,
> not just some subset of them.

Ok, but then, what about .so files?  Wouldn't it make sense to be able
to ship also the executable modules needed, and if not, why not?

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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