Re: ALTER EXTENSION ... UPGRADE;

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER EXTENSION ... UPGRADE;
Date: 2010-12-10 22:00:18
Message-ID: m2d3p91e6l.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> The alternative would be to match postgresql minor version numbering
> exactly, and then come up with some way to have a "no-op" upgrade in the
> frequent cases where the contrib module isn't changed during a minor
> release. This would also require some kind of "upgrade all" command for
> contrib.

That's as easy as having non-continuous version numbering. In your
example, we get from dblink version 9.1.0 to 9.1.4, but the 3 releases
before that it remains dblink 9.1.0.

Would it cut it?
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

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