On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:31:30PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > From time to time people have raised the idea of a CPAN-like mechanism > for downloading, building and installing extensions and the like (types, > functions, sample dbs, anything not requiring Postgres itself to be > rebuilt), and I have been thinking on this for the last few days. What > sort of requirements would people have of such a mechanism? How do > people envision it working?
There's been some discussion before: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00327.php The most useful feature IMHO would be if the installed modules could be recognised as a block (using pg_depends) so that: 1. pg_dump can see them and emit only INSTALL <module> 2. Uninstall removes everything that was installed This only covers installtion though, not building or compiling. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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