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.
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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.
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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).
