From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Smitha Pamujula <smitha(dot)pamujula(at)iovation(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Grant Holly <grant(dot)holly(at)iovation(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade + Extensions |
Date: | 2015-08-31 23:52:24 |
Message-ID: | 55E4E8B8.30706@dunslane.net |
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On 08/31/2015 07:32 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 07:28:00PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 08/31/2015 07:21 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>> On Aug 31, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I think it would help if its noted somewhere in the document as it would have
>>>>> helped us save some time understanding why it was failing and why it was
>>>>> looking for json_build.
>>>> The problem is that this is a rare case where you had an extension that
>>>> was later included in Postgres.
>>> Maybe not so rare. Thanks to Andrew, we’ve had to do this for both 9.2-9.3 (json_object) and 9.3-9.4 (json_build).
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, a lot of people don't like to wait for new stuff. :-)
> It might make the most sense to mention this method in the release notes
> of the extension. However, I assume they are not using the extension in
> the new server so their is no release to look at.
>
> Still, I don't know how many people are doing this, but the right fix is
> to get the names of the modules that are superceeded and tell pg_upgrade
> to skip them.
>
I don't think this knowledge should be hardcoded in pg_upgrade. I could
see some point in a switch that would tell pg_upgrade a list of
extensions to ignore.
cheers
andrew
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