Re: ALTER EXTENSION ... UPGRADE;

On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> You keep making extension authors have to do more work. I keep trying
>> to make it so they can do less. We want the barrier to be as low as
>> possible, which means a lot of DRY. Make it *possible* to do more
>> complicated things, but don't *require* it.
> 
> Sorry, imposing that - ain't part of the version number string won't
> make any impression on me as far as getting simple is concerned. Go find
> a single debian package not having - in its version number, and that's a
> native software (developed to build debian).

I'm making no such imposition. I'd rather it not be in contrib version numbers, because they should adhere to PostgreSQL-standard version numbering IMHO. YOu can use any characters you want in the version string. The upgrade file names simply start with "$extension-", so the format is "$extension-$version.sql". That's it.

> For details, see the following, then explain me how RPM is so
> differently simple, and then why I should care.
> 
>  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
> 
> So really, using %v to say "put the current version number here" does
> not seem like a problem for me, it allows me not to have to think about
> *any* files naming rules nor version numbering scheme.

It's just not necessary.

Best,

David