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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-16T19:28:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support