On 1/3/20 1:46 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:10 PM Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just stop doing it. It's very little extra work to package an item >> into an extension and this protects your hapless users who might have >> implemented a function called gcd() that does something different. >> ... > There are counter-arguments to that, though. Maintaining a lot of > extensions with only one or two functions in them is a nuisance. > Having things installed by default is convenient for wanting to use > them. Maintaining contrib code so that it works whether or not the SQL > definitions have been updated via ALTER EXTENSION .. UPDATE takes some > work and thought, and sometimes we screw it up.
Is there a middle ground staring us in the face, where certain things could be added in core, but in a new schema like pg_math (pg_ !), so if you want them you put them on your search path or qualify them explicitly, and if you don't, you don't? Regards, -Chap
