From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
Subject: Re: dealing with extension dependencies that aren't quite 'e'
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 10:58:49 -0300
Message-ID: <20160405135849.GA254264@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
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Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2016-04-05 12:33:56 +0530, ams@2ndQuadrant.com wrote:
> >
> > Álvaro: I did document and test the extra types you added, but now
> > that I think about it a bit more, it's hard to argue that it's useful
> > to have a table, for example, depend on an extension. There's really
> > nothing about a table that "doesn't work without" an extension.
>
> I think it makes sense to implement this for triggers and functions. It
> may also be useful for indexes and materialised views, which can refer
> to functions in an extension (and in future, sequences as well).
>
> It's certainly good to know the grammar would work if we wanted to add
> other object types in future, but I think we should leave it at that.
Yes, agreed. What I implemented weren't cases that were supposed to be
useful to users, only those for which I thought it was good to test
bison with. Sorry I wasn't clear about this. Feel free the strip out
(some of?) them, if they aren't useful.
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