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Re: Finer Extension dependencies

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-04-02T18:32:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Apr 2, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Or an extension could specify itself which version numbering scheme it
> uses.  This just has to be a reference to a type, which in turn could be
> semver, debversion, or even just numeric or text (well, maybe name).
> Then you'd just need to use the comparison operators of that type to
> figure things out.

Sounds like a lot of work for core to maintain various version comparison schemes…

David