On 19 November 2012 16:25, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Beyond that, I think much of the appeal of the extension feature is
> that it dumps as "CREATE EXTENSION hstore;" and nothing more. That
> allows you to migrate a dump between systems with different but
> compatible versions of the hstore and have things work as intended.
> I'm not opposed to the idea of being able to make extensions without
> files on disk work ... but I consider it a niche use case; the
> behavior we have right now works well for me and hopefully for others
> most of the time.
Distributing software should only happen by files?
So why does Stackbuilder exist on the Windows binary?
Why does yum exist? What's wrong with ftp huh?
Why does CPAN?
I've a feeling this case might be a sensible way forwards, not a niche at all.
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