On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 08:28:12AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:56 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 09:35:28PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 6:52 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > I came up with the attached patch.
> >
> >
> > Thank you. It is an improvement but I think more could be done here (not
> > exactly sure what - though removing the "copy binaries for contrib
> modules from
> > the old server" seems like a decent second step.)
>
> Uh, I don't see that text.
> """
> 5. Install custom shared object files
>
> Install any custom shared object files (or DLLs) used by the old cluster into
> the new cluster, e.g., pgcrypto.so, whether they are from contrib or some other
> source. Do not install the schema definitions, e.g., CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto,
> because these will be upgraded from the old cluster. Also, any custom full text
> search files (dictionary, synonym, thesaurus, stop words) must also be copied
> to the new cluster.
> """
> I have an issue with the fragment "whether they are from contrib" - my
> understanding at this point is that because of the way we package and version
> contrib it should not be necessary to copy those shared object files from the
> old to the new server (maybe, just maybe, with a qualification that you are
> upgrading between two versions that were in support during the same time
> period).
OK, so this is the confusion I was talking about. You are supposed to
install _new_ _versions_ of the extensions that are in the old cluster
to the new cluster. You are not supposed to _copy_ the files from the
old to new cluster. I think my new patch makes that clearer, but can it
be improved?
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