On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> 2013/12/31 Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziome...@gmail.com>
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>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I am looking on this patch
>> >
>> > ALTER TABLE foo SET (ext.somext.do_replicate=true);
>> >
>> > Why is there fixed prefix "ext" ?
>> >
>> > This feature is similar to attaching setting to function
>> >
>> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ... SET var = ...;
>> >
>> > We can use someprefix.someguc without problems there.
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We use the prefix "ext" (aka namespace) to distinguish these options
which are related to "extensions".
>>
>> Have you seen the previous thread [1] ?
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> yes, but I don't understand why it is necessary? I use a analogy with
custom GUC - and there we don't use similar prefix. Only any prefix is
required - and it can contain a dot.
>

We use the namespace "ext" to the internal code
(src/backend/access/common/reloptions.c) skip some validations and store
the custom GUC.

Do you think we don't need to use the "ext" namespace?


Regards,

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