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Re: Dumping an Extension's Script

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-05T22:08:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Yeah, DROP will work.  But what about ALTER .. UPDATE?

What about it?

> Well, there's certainly a point, because IIUC Dimitri's patch dumps
> the file into the pg_dump output no matter whether the file originally
> came from an SQL command or the filesystem.  IMHO, anyone who thinks
> that isn't going to break things rather badly isn't thinking hard
> enough.

Only if you ask for it using --extension-script. The default behaviour
didn't change, whether you decide to install your extension from the
file system or the PostgreSQL port.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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