Re: SQL objects UNITs (was: [HACKERS] Extension Templates S03E11)

2013-12-19 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Stephen Frost escribió: * Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: Basically with building `UNIT` we realise with hindsight that we failed to build a proper `EXTENSION` system, and we send that message

Re: SQL objects UNITs (was: [HACKERS] Extension Templates S03E11)

2013-12-19 Thread Cédric Villemain
Le jeudi 19 décembre 2013 14:01:17, Robert Haas a écrit : On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Stephen Frost escribió: * Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: Basically with building `UNIT` we realise with hindsight that we

SQL objects UNITs (was: [HACKERS] Extension Templates S03E11)

2013-12-18 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com writes: On 17 December 2013 23:42, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: We aim to have the simplest implementation that meets the stated need and reasonable extrapolations of that. Text in a catalog table is the simplest implementation. That is not a reason to

Re: SQL objects UNITs (was: [HACKERS] Extension Templates S03E11)

2013-12-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: Here's my attempt: # Inline Extension, Extension Templates The problem with *Inline Extension* is the dump and restore policy. The contents of an extensions are not be found in a `pg_dump` script, ever. You keep coming back to this and I

Re: SQL objects UNITs (was: [HACKERS] Extension Templates S03E11)

2013-12-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Stephen Frost escribió: * Dimitri Fontaine (dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr) wrote: Basically with building `UNIT` we realise with hindsight that we failed to build a proper `EXTENSION` system, and we send that message to our users. Little difficult to draw conclusions about what out 'hindsight'