Re: contrib function naming, and upgrade issues

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> He also worked out some OS level tools for module handling, but I  
> think I'd prefer to have another notion in between, the extension.

> The extension would be a new SQL object referring to zero, one or more  
> modules and one or more SQL scripts creating new SQL objects (schemas,  
> tables, views, tablespaces, functions, types, casts, operator classes  
> and families, etc, whatever SQL scripting we support now --- yes,  
> index am would be great too).

This seems drastically overengineered.  What do we need two levels of
objects for?
        regards, tom lane