Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Brad Nicholson wrote:
> >> At the very least, a mention in the documentation of incompatible
> >> contrib module(s) would be nice. Even better would be a sanity check
> >> added to prevent this.
>
> > OK, I am looking to the hackers group for recommentations on this.
>
> One thing I was going to suggest is that pg_migrator check that all the
> .so's in the old installation also exist in the new one. However that
> could be overkill since you don't know for sure if the old .so is
> referenced anywhere in the database.
Or in this case that the new *.so has the same functions.
> As for the specific problem at hand, it might've been a mistake to
> replace dblink_current_query() with a SQL function instead of changing
> the internal implementation of the C function. We could still fix that.
I am afraid /contrib is going to be a mine field for this type of
problem so I am going to recommend uninstaling the /contrib module if
possible and retry the migration. That should work in this case.
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