"Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Could you serve this as special docstring instead? Eg: >>> PG_MODULE(foomodule)
I have no objection to that, and see no real implementation problem with it: we just add a "const char *" field to the magic block. The other stuff seems too blue-sky, and I'm not even sure that it's the right direction to proceed in. Marko seems to be envisioning a future where an extension module is this binary blob with install/deinstall/etc code all hardwired into it. I don't like that a bit. I think the current scheme with separate SQL scripts is a *good* thing, because it makes it a lot easier for users to tweak the SQL definitions, eg, install the functions into a non-default schema. Also, I don't have a problem imagining extension modules that contain no C code, just PL functions --- so the SQL script needs to be considered the primary piece of the module, not the shared library. 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. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly