On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> It is, but I don't see any alternative.  As Dimitri said, the .so will
> typically be installed by a packaging system, so we don't have any
> opportunity to run SQL code beforehand.  In any case ...
> 
>> The new .so should not be installed until the upgrade is been run.
> 
> ... that flat out doesn't work.  If the upgrade script tries to add
> functions that didn't exist in the old .so, it'll fail.

Right, what I'm saying is that `ALTER EXTENSION foo UPGRADE;` should install 
the .so, too, just before it runs the upgrade scripts.

Best,

David
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