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Re: Marking some contrib modules as trusted extensions

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-02-14T01:26:38Z
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Hi,

On 2020-02-13 18:57:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Maybe we could decide that the time for supporting easy updates from
> pre-9.1 is past, and just remove all the unpackaged-to-XXX scripts?
> Maybe even remove the "FROM version" option altogether.

Yea, that strikes me as a reasonable thing to do. These days that just
seems to be dangerous, without much advantage.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state.

  2. Mark some contrib modules as "trusted".

  3. Invent "trusted" extensions, and remove the pg_pltemplate catalog.