Re: Upgrading Extension, version numbers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-05T18:05:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> As Tom pointed out, you can do the same with naming conventions by having scripts \i each other as appropriate.
>
> This is a deprecated idea, though.  We're talking about the
> pg_execute_from_file() patch that has been applied, but without the
> pg_execute_sql_file() function.  So that part is internal to the backend
> extension code and not available from SQL anymore.
>
> There's no consensus to publish a bakend \i like function.  So there's
> no support for this upgrade script organizing you're promoting.  Unless
> the consensus changes again (but a commit has been done).

My understanding of the consensus is that it wasn't felt necessary for
the purpose for which it was proposed.  I think it could be
re-proposed with a different argument and very possibly accepted.

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Robert Haas
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