| From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Dunstan <pgsql(at)tomd(dot)cc>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Extension Templates S03E11 |
| Date: | 2013-12-04 08:00:02 |
| Message-ID: | 1386144002.19125.211.camel@jdavis |
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On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 08:44 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > > On 3 December 2013 02:02, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
> > > ISTM that the real solution to this particular problem is to decouple
> > > the extensions that are currently in contrib from a specific postgres
> > > version.
> >
> > "Problem"? It's not a bug that you get hstore 1.2 when you dump from 9.2
> > and reload into 9.3; that's a feature. You wanted an upgrade, presumably,
>
> I don't buy this argument at *all* and it's not going to fly when we've
> got multiple versions of an extension available concurrently.
It seems there's a use case for both behaviors; perhaps we should
include it in the control information?
preserve_version_on_dump (boolean)
FWIW, I find the current behavior surprising when in the mindset of a
SQL extension. But it makes sense for things more closely tied to the
backend.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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