Re: Extensions vs PGXS' MODULE_PATHNAME handling

On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "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.

How likely is *that*?

David