Configuration option autoload_known_extensions
default not consistent with other client APIs #582
Description
Trying to work with data stored on S3, I've come across the fact that when using the duckdb
R package, I have to load the httpfs
extension as a pre-requisite, which I don't have to do when using Python's duckdb
module or the standalone CLI.
I am probably missing something, but it looks like this is linked with the fact that when I run FROM duckdb_settings()
on the R package, I can see that the option autoload_known_extensions
is set by default to false
, while it is set to true
in Python and on the CLI (which is actually consistent with the documentation).
As a consequence, I have to explicitly load the extension httpfs
, should I want to query data stored on S3 for instance. It seems not completely consistent with the documentation. Do you agree with this, and if yes, would it be possible to consider turning the default of this option to true
?