Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 11/10/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > OK, first question. How would someone have the 8.0 signatures in 8.2?
> > Don't they reinstall pgcrypto for every major release?
>
> Why reinstall if the functions come from dump?
>
> At least in skype we stumbled on the problem. But if the reinstall
> is widespread practice, then indeed it may not be worth bothering.
I assumed that the /contrib modules changed enough that people would
always reinstall them for a major release. However, I don't know how to
excluded them from dumps. If you don't have the pgcrypto library
installed I think the CREATE FUNCTIONs fail because there is no library.
The strange thing is we have never gotten too many complaints about
upgrading the /contrib stuff, which is kind of odd. We have talked
about putting each /contrib in its own schema so it could be easily
excluded but that never happened. Putting all the contribs in one
schema might be a good middle ground.
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