Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > * Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: >> Then as soon as we are able to CREATE EXTENSION mystuff; without ever >> pre-installing files on the file system as root, then we would like to >> be able to do just that even with binary modules.
> I really just don't see this as being either particularly useful nor > feasible within a reasonable amount of effort. Shared libraries are > really the perview of the OS packaging system. Yes, exactly. What's more, you're going to face huge push-back from vendors who are concerned about security (which is most of them). If there were such a feature, it would end up disabled, one way or another, in a large fraction of installations. That would make it impractical to use anyway for most extension authors. I don't think it's good project policy to fragment the user base that way. I'm on board with the notion of an all-in-the-database extension mechanism for extensions that consist solely of SQL objects. But not for ones that need a .so somewhere. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers