On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > Versions are useful for figuring out if I should upgrade packages or > not. But I believe the extension framework has explicitly made the > "upgrade" problem a manual one at this point, either taking > destination versions from the control, or the alter command. > > So for PGXN's problem, I see the point of versions being required.
Okay, thanks, I'm convinced (and relieved; I hated to be bringing something like this up so close to launch). > But for installation the dependancy graph, "provides/features" rather > than versions are much more useful. And automatic feature/provides > (like library so, and symbol versions in the OS package world, > "objects" in PG world) would definitely be nice, but my Makefile can > build those for me for now until 9.2 (or 9.3, 9.3, etc), if only I had > a way to track them with my installed extension ;-) </stop begging> I'm sure a patch would be welcomed. ;-P Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
