Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Another thing we might want to consider once we have a robust extension
> mechanism is to move some things out of the backend into extensions.
> Candidates could be uuid, legacy geometry types, inet/cidr, for example.
> These extensions would still be available and probably installed by default,
> but they need not be hardcoded into the backend.
Presumably would help the prospective upgrader too. Upgrade tool can't
cope with the change to inet types? No problem, I *know* they're not in
use, since they're not loaded.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd