On Apr 3, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>> Oh, they are not unique per-schema? I guess they are global to the database 
>> but then their objects are in the specified schema, then.
> 
> Right -- an extension is not considered to live within a schema, they
> are database-global.  The objects might live in a particular schema (if
> it is "relocatable"), and there's support to move those to a different
> schema, but this doesn't affect the extension itself.

Thanks. I humbly submit this patch to help prevent silly questions like this in 
the future.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_extension.sgml 
b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_extension.sgml
index 4f3b9a5..4ab3dff 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_extension.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_extension.sgml
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ CREATE EXTENSION [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <replaceable 
class="parameter">extension_name
         relocated.  The named schema must already exist.
         If not specified, and the extension's control file does not specify a
         schema either, the current default object creation schema is used.
+        Note that only the extension objects will be placed into the named
+        schema; the extension itself is a database-global object.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

Best,

David



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