Re: Converting contrib SQL functions to new style

Le mercredi 6 novembre 2024, 06:52:16 heure normale d’Europe centrale Michael
Paquier a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 08:05:16PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > No, I don't think so. For one thing, it would not help existing
> > installations unless they issue "ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE", which
> > people are not likely to do in a minor update. But also, we don't
> > know of live attacks against these functions with their current
> > definitions, so I don't think this is urgent.
>
> OK, thanks.

For most of them I agree, but one side effect of the current implementation is
that we have a bug when pg_upgrad'ing if earthdistance is installed:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/
152106914669.1223.5104148605998271987%40wrigleys.postgresql.org

The new version of earthdistance fixes that problem, so this one would be worth
a back patch to 16, giving users the opportunity to update earthdistance
before running pg_upgrade.

Thanks for the tip about the CI, will make sure to have it setup before next
time.

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Ronan Dunklau