| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3 |
| Date: | 2011-02-02 23:42:56 |
| Message-ID: | 5224.1296690176@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
> My concern with this approach (upgrade is forced through all
> intermetiary versions) is that the shared libray now for version 15
> *has* to have all the "intermediary" compatibility for *all* versions
> in it. So it has to have functions with all symbols so the "CREATE
> ..." staements for all previous 15 versions can succeed.
Bear in mind though that the compatibility stubs only have to be stubs;
the C function needn't do anything except perhaps throw elog(ERROR).
This doesn't seem very onerous to me.
regards, tom lane
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