Re: contrib loose ends: 9.0 to 9.1 incompatibilities
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-02-16T22:03:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes: > Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: >> Well, actually, we *do* have such a mechanism (plpgsql), we just don't >> want to use it unless we have to. I wouldn't feel too bad about saying >> "upgrading tsearch2 directly from 9.0 to 9.4 requires that you have >> plpgsql installed when you issue the CREATE EXTENSION command". > We will then need "build"-time requires (build-depends would say debian) > so that the system knows what's needed to run the install or upgrade > scripts. Huh? It's still an install-time dependency, and anyway the failure would be pretty obvious. Please let us not spend time garnishing this facility with unnecessary stuff, when the list of actually *important* missing stuff is still a mile long. Think about what's needed to support procedural languages as extensions, for starters. I'll give you a hint: none of it has anything whatever to do with copying features from RPM or Debian. regards, tom lane