Re: dfmgr additional ABI version fields

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-10-08T14:54:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 07.10.21 21:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
>> On 10/07/21 12:42, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Can we make the addition be a string not a number, so that we
>>> could include something more useful than "1234" in the error
>>> message?
> 
>> Just using a string like "EDB v" + something would probably rule out
>> collisions in practice. To be more formal about it, something like
>> the tag URI scheme [0] could be recommended.
> 
> Hmm.  Personally I'm more interested in the string being comprehensible to
> end users than in whether there's any formal rule guaranteeing uniqueness.
> I really doubt that we will have any practical problem with collisions,
> so I'd rather go with something like "EnterpriseDB v1.2.3" than with
> something like "tag:enterprisedb.com,2021:1.2.3".

Yeah, just a string should be fine.



Commits

  1. Add ABI extra field to fmgr magic block