Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 14.05.24 01:11, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The mechanism that Andres describes for sourcing the name seems a bit
>> overcomplex though. Why not just allow/require each extension to
>> specify its name as a constant string? We could force the matter by
>> redefining PG_MODULE_MAGIC as taking an argument:
>> PG_MODULE_MAGIC("hstore");
> We kind of already have something like this, for NLS. If you look for
> pg_bindtextdomain(TEXTDOMAIN) and ereport_domain(), this information
> already trickles into the vicinity of the error data. Maybe the same
> thing could just be used for this, by wiring up the macros a bit
> differently.
Hmm, cute idea, but it'd only help for extensions that are
NLS-enabled. Which I bet is a tiny fraction of the population.
So far as I can find, we don't even document how to set up
TEXTDOMAIN for an extension --- you have to cargo-cult the
macro definition from some in-core extension.
regards, tom lane
