Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>

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

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2011-02-10T21:24:13Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Feb 10, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Well, okay, let's go with that plan then.  If we don't need to assume
> anything more than equality of version names being meaningful, I think
> chaining update scripts automatically should solve most of the
> complaints here.  People who really want to maintain shortcut scripts
> still could, but I think it'd be an unusual case.

Yes, I think that this is a great solution. I only have to create on upgrade script for each release, and I don't have to worry about concatenating anything or be required to change my versioning algorithm.

+1

Finally, a solution!

Best,

David