Re: Add Postgres module info

On 3/23/25 20:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 3/22/25 23:49, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> * It is not clear to me what permission restrictions we should put
>>> on pg_get_loaded_modules, ...
> 
>> I vote for the idea of stripping the full path to just a filename.
> 
> Works for me.  v7 attached does it that way.
Thanks, you've done almost all the job.
> 
>>> * I'm not happy with putting pg_get_loaded_modules into dfmgr.c.
> 
>> I just attempted to reduce number of exported objects here. If it is ok
>> to introduce an iterator, the pg_get_loaded_modules() may live in
>> extension.c
> 
> Yeah, I like that better than leaving it in dfmgr.c, so done that way.
> The iterator functions also provide some cover for dealing with
> on-the-fly changes of the file list, if we ever need that.
It also gives extension developers a tool to detect conflicting modules 
any time we need it. More elegant than the SerializeLibraryState().
> 
> I converted pg_get_loaded_modules to run just once and deliver its
> results in a tuplestore.  That's partly because the adjacent SRFs
> in extension.c work like that, but mostly because it removes the
> hazard of the file list changing mid-run.
Ok.
>> Yes, additional burden to bump version string was a stopper for me to
>> propose such a brave idea.
> 
> After sleeping on it, I think we really ought to do that, so 0002
> attached does so.
With the concept of the PG_VERSION string as a version, it looks more 
meaningful than I've thought before.

Patch 0001 is ready to commit for me.
Patch 0002 I just checked on the errors in module names. That's more I 
can do here? ;) Seems good, no errors found.

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regards, Andrei Lepikhov