On 2021-Jul-29, Dave Cramer wrote: > > I suggest "can be upgraded" rather than "should be upgraded" because > > we're not making a recommendation, merely stating the fact that it is > > possible to do so. > > Why not recommend it? I was going to suggest that we actually run alter > extension upgrade ... on all of them as a solution. > > What are the downsides to upgrading them all by default ? AFAIK if they > need upgrading this should run all of the SQL scripts, if they don't then > this should be a NO-OP.
I'm not aware of any downsides, and I think it would be a good idea to do so, but I also think that it would be good to sort out the docs precisely (a backpatchable doc change, IMV) and once that is done we can discuss how to improve pg_upgrade so that users no longer need to do that (a non-backpatchable code change). Incremental improvements and all that ... -- Álvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "La libertad es como el dinero; el que no la sabe emplear la pierde" (Alvarez)
