Re: pg_execute_from_file review

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> There's a difference between whether an extension as such is considered
> to belong to a schema and whether its contained objects do.  We can't
> really avoid the fact that functions, operators, etc must be assigned to
> some particular schema.  It seems not particularly important that
> extension names be schema-qualified, though --- the use-case for having
> two different extensions named "foo" installed simultaneously seems
> pretty darn small.  On the other hand, if we were enforcing that all
> objects contained in an extension belong to the same schema, it'd make
> logistical sense to consider that the extension itself belongs to that
> schema as well.  But last I heard we didn't want to enforce such a
> restriction.

Why not?  This feature seems to be pretty heavily designed around the
assumption that everything's going to live in one schema, so is there
any harm in making that explicit?

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