Re: pain of postgres upgrade with extensions

From: Dave Potts <dave(dot)potts(at)pinan(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pain of postgres upgrade with extensions
Date: 2008-03-12 19:46:24
Message-ID: 47D83310.7030003@pinan.co.uk
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> - dump version N database
>> - create empty version N+1 database
>> - install N+1's version of each needed contrib module into new database
>> - restore dump, ignoring "object already exists" errors
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>> There is a TODO to figure out some cleaner way of handling this sort
>> of thing ...
>>
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> I think I smell a GSOC project....
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I think there is a slight misunderstanding here, I was refering to
extensions items such as postgis, plr, pgperl, etc. These have a slight
different foot print to the projects in the contrib directory.

Dave
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