From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info> |
Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade does not upgrade pg_stat_statements properly |
Date: | 2021-07-15 18:26:24 |
Message-ID: | 20210715182624.GB14027@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 02:14:28PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 7/15/21 1:10 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > ... But while PostgreSQL doesn't really have a choice here - it cannot
> > be expected to subdivide itself - extensions (at least external ones -
> > PostGIS is one I have in mind presently) - can and often do attempt to
> > support multiple versions of PostgreSQL for whatever major versions of
> > their product they are offering. For these it is possible to adhere to
> > the "change one thing at a time principle" and to treat the extensions
> > as not being part of "ALL the changes from one major version to the
> > target version..."
>
> You may make that exception for an external extension like PostGIS. But I
> don't think it is valid for one distributed in sync with the core system in
> the contrib package, like pg_stat_statements. Which happens to be the one
> named in the subject line of this entire discussion.
Yes, I think one big issue is that the documentation of the new server
might not match the API of the extension installed on the old server.
There has been a lot of discussion from years ago about why we can't
auto-upgrade extensions, so it might be good to revisit that.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> https://momjian.us
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