Re: Inline Extension

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Even if you give the version number in the CREATE EXTENSION command, it's by
>> convention that people actually maintain a sane versioning policy. If people
>> don't take version management seriously, you will quickly end up with five
>> different versions of an extension, all with version number 0.1.
>
> Projects are taking it seriously, and invest a lot of effort in it.
> There is no shortage of schema versioning frameworks, of varying
> levels of maturity....but some are quite complete by the standards of
> their users.  However, there is little knowledge shared between them,
> and the no database gives them much support, so idiosyncrasy becomes
> inevitable.

Speak of the devil. Someone just posted use of extension versioning to
manage schemas (using the existing plain-old-files mechanism):

http://philsorber.blogspot.com/2012/01/deploy-schemata-like-boss.html

He also links to a -hackers post Dimitri wrote last December.

A few anecdotes does not constitute evidence, but it does look like
some people pay attention to any additional versioning foothold they
can get.

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fdr