On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
>> *shrug* ok. Another thought I had was to have the file raise an error
>> and have that filtered out by the extension mechanism. But I'm not sure
>> if it's worth the trouble.
>
> Hmm ...
>
> \echo You should use CREATE EXTENSION foo to load this file!
>
> and teach CREATE EXTENSION to drop any line beginning with \echo?
> The latter part seems easy enough, but I'm not quite sure about the
> wording or placement of the \echo command.  Putting it at the top
> feels natural but the message might scroll offscreen due to errors...

Decorate them with a marker like:
   \extension <name> <version>

And make the CREATE EXTENSION skip (or verify) it?

It will make psql stop on the \extension command.

a.


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