Re: pg_upgrade + Extensions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: pg_upgrade + Extensions
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Msg-id E0B2C90E-E2CA-4755-95FC-24DEBE618B70@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade + Extensions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Aug 31, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> In any case, there is plenty of precedent for hard-coding knowledge about
> specific version updates into pg_upgrade.  The question here is whether
> it's feasible to handle extensions that way.  I think we could reasonably
> expect to know about cases where a formerly separate extension got
> integrated into core,

+1

> but are there other cases where pg_upgrade would
> need to ignore an extension in the old database?

Not that I can think of, unless it’s already present because it was in template1 or something.

David


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