On September 4, 2016 6:33:30 PM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On 2016-09-04 21:09:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Hm, couldn't we do that automatically? At least in the case where
>only
>>> one base-version script is available?
>
>> You mean determining the baseversion? Hm, yes, that might work. But
>I'm
>> not sure how much we can rely on no earlier scripts being already
>> installed or such. Seems like a problem you'd possibly only encounter
>in
>> the field or dirty development environments.
>
>Actually, why would we care? Pick one, with some tiebreaker rules
>(shortest update path, for starters).
Fair point.
> I think nearly all of the
>infrastructure for this is already there in extension.c.
Yes, it doesn't sound very hard...
Andres
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