Re: Extensions, patch v18 (merge against master, bitrot-only-fixes)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Extensions, patch v18 (merge against master, bitrot-only-fixes)
Date: 2010-12-16 19:28:41
Message-ID: 1292527616-sup-2760@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Dimitri Fontaine's message of jue dic 16 09:49:31 -0300 2010:
> Hi,
>
> Well $subject says about it all really. The bitrot of course comes from
> the fact that the last in-commitfest-dependency has been commited in,
> and I kept a version of pg_execute_sql_file() in the extension's patch.

I thought the suggestion of having "version = 9.1devel" line in each
contrib's module extension file was a joke. It is certainly not going
to be sustainable in the long run -- I don't think we want to be
modifying all control files each release. We need to find a better way
to fix this.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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