Oh, sorry! Don’t know what I was doing there - not used to this patch based workflow. Here comes the real patch.
This now uses the GUC - that was a lot easier than I thought.
One thing I couldn’t figure out: Should I add some sort of change log somewhere, describing what changed in version 1.3 of the ISN extension? If so, where?
/Viktor Holmberg
On 15 Mar 2025 at 16:22 +0000, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, wrote:
> Viktor Holmberg <v(at)viktorh(dot)net> writes:
> > On 14 Mar 2025 at 16:18 +0000, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, wrote:
> > > No, we'd need to create an update script that uses ALTER FUNCTION.
> > > Extension scripts are basically frozen once shipped.
>
> > Ah, thanks for the clarification. I’ve attached a patch that fixes the volatility. I thought it best to at least get some feedback on that before I try to dust off my C knowledge and try to fix the GUC stuff.
>
> Uh .. looks like you attached a patch for something else altogether.
>
> If you want a sample extension-updating patch to look at, you
> could see 44ba2920644903d7dfceda810e5facdbcbab58a8, or lots of
> other examples.
>
> regards, tom lane