Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> writes:
> Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Appendix F (contrib.sgml and its subsidiary files) is pretty consistent
>> about using "module" to refer to a contrib, uh, module.
> I'm now thinking in those terms: the module is the shared object library
> that the backend needs to dlopen(). The extension is the SQL level
> object that wraps all its components.
Hmm ... but what of contrib "modules" that don't build shared libraries
at all --- pgbench and pg_upgrade for example?
I think "shared library" is a perfectly fine term for that kind of
object, and we don't need an alias for it anyway.
regards, tom lane
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