On Dec 10, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> True. Consider a situation like an RPM upgrade: it's going to drop in a
> new .so version, *and nothing else*. It's pure fantasy to imagine that
> the RPM script is going to find all your databases and execute some SQL
> commands against them. Since a large number of bug-fix cases do require
> only a .so update, not being able to track the .so version seems like
> it's missing most of the argument for having version tracking at all.
Sometimes there will be changes to the SQL, too. How does that work with CREATE EXTENSION? Do I install the upgrade,
thenrun CREATE EXTENSION to get the latest SQL script to run? But then all the objects already exist…
Best,
David
