On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:24, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:14:27AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Is it worth adding a module name to the magic block, or should we just > > leave well enough alone? It's certainly not something foreseen as part > > of the purpose of that block. In the absence of some fairly concrete > > ideas what to do with it, I'm probably going to vote keep-it-simple. > > I actually considered it while writing the patch but decided against > given the general tendancy against putting extra info into the modules > in general... > > Personally I think it's a good idea, except: where is this info going > to be displayed or used? >
Marko's suggestion on producing a list of installed modules comes to mind, and I suspect tools like pgadmin or ppa will want to be able to show this information. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match