Re: pg_upgrade + Extensions

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Smitha Pamujula <smitha(dot)pamujula(at)iovation(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Grant Holly <grant(dot)holly(at)iovation(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade + Extensions
Date: 2015-09-01 00:03:58
Message-ID: E0B2C90E-E2CA-4755-95FC-24DEBE618B70@justatheory.com
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On Aug 31, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> In any case, there is plenty of precedent for hard-coding knowledge about
> specific version updates into pg_upgrade. The question here is whether
> it's feasible to handle extensions that way. I think we could reasonably
> expect to know about cases where a formerly separate extension got
> integrated into core,

+1

> but are there other cases where pg_upgrade would
> need to ignore an extension in the old database?

Not that I can think of, unless it’s already present because it was in template1 or something.

David

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