On 2013-01-18 12:45:02 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: > > Please find attached a preliminary patch following the TEMPLATE ideas, > > and thanks in particular to Tom and Heikki for a practical design about > > how to solve that problem! > > Given that it's preliminary and v0 and big and whatnot, it seems like > it should be bounced to post-9.3. Even so, I did take a look through > it, probably mostly because I'd really like to see this feature. :)
To be fair, the patch start its life pretty early on in the cycle and only got really reviewed (and I think updated) later. I just got rewritten into this form based on review. > 'Template' seems like a really broad term which might end up being > associated with things beyond extensions, yet there are a number of > places where you just use 'TEMPLATE', eg, ACL_KIND_TEMPLATE. Seems like > it might become an issue later. I think Tom came up with that name and while several people (including me and I think also Dim) didn't really like it nobody has come up with a better name so far. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
