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Re: Marking some contrib modules as trusted extensions

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-02-14T17:39:19Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> 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.

Here's a patch to remove the core-code support and documentation for
that.  I have not included the actual deletion of the contrib modules'
'unpackaged' scripts, as that seems both long and boring.

			regards, tom lane

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.