On 11/30/14 11:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > The "API break" isn't a big issue imo. The net effect would be that eg > hstore 9.3.6 wouldn't work against a 9.3.5 server. We do that sort of > thing *all the time* --- at least twice in the past year, according to > a quick scan of the commit logs. If you were changing or removing a > function that third-party code might depend on, it'd be problematic, > but an addition has no such risk.
This sort of things is actually a bit of an annoyance, because it means that for minor-version upgrades, you need to stop the server before unpacking the new version, otherwise the old running server will try to load the new hstore module and fail with a symbol lookup. This can increase the downtime significantly. Yes, we've done this before, and people have gotten bitten by it before. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
