Re: Easiest way to CREATE EXTENSION when upgrading from 9.0 to 9.2?

Joshua Boyd <JBoyd(at)nxsystemsinc(dot)com> wrote:

> We have a pre-production environment that was running postgresql
> 9.0 and we created the extension “pgcrypto” in it by feeding psql
> the contrib/pgcrypto.sql ..  We just upgraded to 9.2 (via
> pg_upgrade) – naturally all the functions still exist, but
> pgcrypto is not a registered extension with the database, nor is
> it the most recent sql for the extension.  What would be the
> easiest way to both register and upgrade to the most recent
> version of pgcrypto in our new version? Or is running a rollback
> script to remove all of those and then running CREATE EXTENSION
> our only option?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/sql-createextension.html

CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto FROM unpackaged;

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