On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > In principle we are leaving it to the extension author to choose that. > However, we're going to have to make a choice for the contrib modules, > and I'll bet lunch that most people will follow whatever precedent we > set with those. I was thinking about using either "old" or "unpackaged". > Thoughts?
I like unpackaged. >>> Version strings will have no hard-wired semantics except equality; we >>> don't need a sorting rule. We must however forbid "-" in version >>> strings, to avoid ambiguity as to whether a file name represents an >>> install or upgrade script. > >> Yeah. Might be worth considering using some other less common character as >> the delimiter. Maybe + or ^? not a big deal, though. I guess / should also >> be forbidden, eh? > > I could go with + ... anyone know if that is problematic in filenames on > Windows or elsewhere? I'd rather stick with -. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
