Re: ALTER EXTENSION ... UPGRADE;

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-11T21:35:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Dec 11, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

> Yeah that works, as soon as VVV is the version we upgrade from.
> 
> That said, we need to find a way to lighten the process for extensions
> where it's easy to have a single script to support upgrade from more
> than once past release.
> 
> What about having the following keys supported in the control file:
> 
>  upgrade_<version> = 'script.version.sql'
>  upgrade_all = 'script.sql'

Why not just use an upgrade script naming convention? Think: Convention over configuration.

> Where the version here is the version you're upgrading *from* (to is
> known and static when you distribute the files after all), and where
> upgrade_all is applied last no matter what got applied before.
> 
> Also, do we want a subdirectory per extension to host all those files?

How are things currently arranged?

Best,

David