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Re: Finer Extension dependencies

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-29T19:07:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> At the very least, I would suggest that feature names are per-extension.
>
> Yeah, I had about come to that conclusion too.  A global namespace for
> them would be a mistake given lack of central coordination.

That's how I did it first, but Alvaro opposed to that because it allows
for more than one extension to provide for the same feature name.

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-03/msg01425.php

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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