Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3
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Msg-id 5224.1296690176@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE, v3  (Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>)
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Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
> My concern with this approach (upgrade is forced through all
> intermetiary versions) is that the shared libray now for version 15
> *has* to have all the "intermediary" compatibility for *all* versions
> in it.  So it has to have functions with all symbols so the "CREATE
> ..." staements for all previous 15 versions can succeed.

Bear in mind though that the compatibility stubs only have to be stubs;
the C function needn't do anything except perhaps throw elog(ERROR).
This doesn't seem very onerous to me.
        regards, tom lane


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