Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([2a02:16a8:dc51::56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fhSGX-0001EG-GI for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 04:16:09 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fhSGV-0005dw-QT for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 04:16:07 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fhSGV-0005dp-JF for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 04:16:07 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fhSGO-0005Y2-0D for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 04:16:07 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w6N4FrxC021150; Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:15:53 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Michael Paquier cc: Stephen Frost , Andrew Gierth , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Andres Freund Subject: Re: Should contrib modules install .h files? In-reply-to: <20180723032405.GF2854@paquier.xyz> References: <87y3euomjh.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <87tvpinfr4.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <63444.1530537990@sss.pgh.pa.us> <12ba9c72-504f-b911-f0ce-1dff2826fa5b@2ndquadrant.com> <87k1q8kokq.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <20180723014208.GE27724@tamriel.snowman.net> <20180723032405.GF2854@paquier.xyz> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Paquier message dated "Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:24:05 +0900" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <21148.1532319353.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:15:53 -0400 Message-ID: <21149.1532319353@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Michael Paquier writes: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 09:42:08PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: >> So, +1 from me for having a directory for each extension. > So, like Stephen, that's a +1 from me. Same here. One-file-per-extension is too strongly biased to tiny extensions (like most of our contrib examples). I don't have a real strong opinion on whether it's too late to push this into v11. I do not think it'd break anything other than packagers' lists of files to be installed ... but it does seem like a new feature, and we're past feature freeze. regards, tom lane