>>>>> "Alvaro" == Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> (This of course means that if someone has a cube() function call>> in a group by clause of a view, then upgrading
willchange the>> meaning of the view and possibly fail to create it; there seems to>> be no fix for this, not even
usingthe latest pg_dump, since>> pg_dump relies on the old server's ruleutils)
Alvaro> This sucks. Can we tweak pg_dump to check for presence ofAlvaro> the cube extension, and if found refuse to
dumpunless aAlvaro> minor version older than some hardcoded version (known toAlvaro> have fixed ruleutils) is used?
I honestly don't think it's worth it. cube() is not a function that
really makes any sense in a GROUP BY, though of course someone could
have written their own function called cube() that does something
else; while this case is a problem, it is also likely to be
vanishingly rare.
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
