Re: search_path vs extensions

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> Le 29 mai 09 � 16:11, Andrew Dunstan a �crit :
>> I think almost all these difficulties could be overcome if we had  
>> some sort of aliasing support, so that arbitrary objects in schema a  
>> could be aliased in schema b.  If that were in place, best practice  
>> would undoubtedly be for each module to install in its own schema,  
>> and for the DBA to alias what is appropriate to their usage scenario.

> This coupled with Peter's idea of nested namespace seems a killer  
> feature for me.

What it sounds like to me is an amazingly complicated gadget with
absolutely no precedent of successful use anywhere.  We'll spend a year
fooling with the details of this and be no closer to actually solving
the problem at hand, namely getting a simple workable extension
packaging facility.
        regards, tom lane