Re: why two dashes in extension load files

2011/2/14 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> "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.

why do we care if there is a dash in the middle of a text where there
are no numbers ?

>
>> 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?

I have to admit that I am a bit surprised by this -- stuff too.
An objection might be completely non-technical, but advocacy :
   "what this funny new name convention those PostgreSQL folks did invent ?!"


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