Re: pg_migrator issue with contrib - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_migrator issue with contrib
Date
Msg-id 200906081529.n58FTqG06693@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_migrator issue with contrib  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> > So the case where pg_migrator still fails is when the .sql file of the
> > module has changed in a way that restoring what pg_dump gives no longer
> > match what the .so exposes, or if the new .so is non backward
> > compatible?
> 
> Exactly.  And note that this is not pg_migrator's fault: a pg_dump
> dump and reload of the database exposes the user to the same risks,
> if the module author has not been careful about compatibility.

Agreed.  In many ways pg_migrator failures will be caused by failures of
the many tools it relies upon, as I mentioned a few days ago.

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