From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3 |
Date: | 2011-02-11 20:18:33 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTik5pX33jCdm2W7S7XjTybca-mCcxHba2u2Dzj4U@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>> However, we're going to have to make a choice for the contrib modules,
>>> and I'll bet lunch that most people will follow whatever precedent we
>>> set with those. I was thinking about using either "old" or "unpackaged".
>>> Thoughts?
>
>> Will we have to provide different upgrade scripts for different past
>> major versions of PostgreSQL? If so, I would say "9.0" or "8.4" would
>> be better names. hstore at least is an example that would need this
>> treatment I guess.
>
> I don't foresee us bothering with that. We will only be trying to
> upgrade installations that got to 9.1 legitimately.
>
> I should also make clear that I intend to start out all the contrib
> modules at version 1.0. *NOT* 9.1. These things are going to get
> version number bumps only when the contents of their install scripts
> change, not whenever the surrounding database changes version. If we
> number them at 9.1 to start with, it will just promote confusion.
What happens if their contents change several times during a major
release cycle?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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