Upgrade question - was Re: join and dynamic view - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Gary Stainburn
Subject Upgrade question - was Re: join and dynamic view
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Msg-id 200212171457.00598.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk
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In response to Re: join and dynamic view  (Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>)
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On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 2:31 pm, Tomasz Myrta wrote:
> Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > I found that the compile error complaining about the 'OR' was on the
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
> >
> > line.  I removed the 'OR REPLACE' and everything worked fine.
>
> OR REPLACE is since postgres 7.2

That explains it - the server I'm developing on is quite old - I didn't 
realise how old.  I'm about to do an upgrade from 7.1.3 to 7.2.1-5 over 
christmas in fact.

Will I need to dump/restore the database for this upgrade?

>
> > Also I had to change the returns to 'opaque' and 'return 0' to 'return
> > null'
>
> In this case it's ok to "return null", but if you create "before"
> trigger you shoud "return new", because "return null" forces postgres
> not to insert any data.
>
> Tomasz Myrta

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