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Improve documentation about the relationship of extensions and schemas.
There's been some confusion expressed about this point, so clarify. Extended version of a patch by David Wheeler.
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extension.) Also notice that while a table can be a member of an
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extension, its subsidiary objects such as indexes are not directly
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considered members of the extension.
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Another important point is that schemas can belong to extensions, but not
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vice versa: an extension as such has an unqualified name and does not
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exist <quote>within</> any schema. The extension's member objects,
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however, will belong to schemas whenever appropriate for their object
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types. It may or may not be appropriate for an extension to own the
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schema(s) its member objects are within.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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If not specified, and the extension's control file does not specify a
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schema either, the current default object creation schema is used.
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</para>
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<para>
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Remember that the extension itself is not considered to be within any
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schema: extensions have unqualified names that must be unique
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database-wide. But objects belonging to the extension can be within
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schemas.
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</para>
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