Re: [PATCH] Magic block for modules

On Thursday 01 June 2006 21:38, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Marko's suggestion on producing a list of installed modules comes to
> > mind, and I suspect tools like pgadmin or ppa will want to be able to
> > show this information.
>
> My request for phpPgAdmin is to somehow be able to check if the .so file
> for a module is present.
>
> For instance, I'd like to 'enable slony support' if the slony shared
> library is present.  PPA's slony support automatically executes the .sql
> files, so all I need to know is if the .so is there.
>

While I agree with the above (having that for tsearch2 would be nice too) I
think we ought to keep in mind the idea of sql based modules.  Nothing jumps
to mind here ppa wise, but I could see an application looking to see if
mysqlcompat was installed before running if it had a good way to do so.

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Robert Treat
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