Re: why two dashes in extension load files

"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm not convinced.  There was nothing in that discussion why any
>>> particular character would have to be allowed in a version number.

>> Well, there's already a counterexample in the current contrib stuff:
>> uuid-ossp.  We could rename that to uuid_ossp of course, but it's
>> not clear to me that there's consensus for forbidding dashes here.

> I'd be fine if commas were used instead.

Commas do not seem like an improvement to me at all --- they are widely
used as list separators.

I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the
double-dash method?
        regards, tom lane