Pushed with adjustments for the review points. Hopefully this will make
Stephen's life easier, along with others submitting contrib-module
updates. We should urge anyone who submits an old-style extension update
patch to consider whether they really want to bother with a new base
script.
At some
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2016-09-07 09:46:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> + * If reject_indirect is true, ignore paths that go through installable
>> + * versions (presumably, caller will consider starting from such versions).
> Reading this I was initially confused, only after reading
> find_inst
On 2016-09-07 13:44:28 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> +
> +Installing Extensions using Update Scripts
> +
> +
> + An extension that has been around for awhile will probably exist in
Wanted to cry typo for 'awhile' here, but apparently that's actually a
word. The German in me is pleased.
Hi,
On 2016-09-07 09:46:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> At this point it's awfully tempting to make ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE grow
> a CASCADE option to allow automatic installation of new requirements
> of the new version, but I didn't do that here.
Sounds like a plan. After the refactoring that shoul
I wrote:
> Still no SGML doc updates.
And here's a doc addition.
regards, tom lane
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml
index df88380..1c8c420 100644
*** a/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml
*** SELECT * FROM pg
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2016-09-05 22:24:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ordinarily I'd be willing to stick this on the queue for the next
>> commitfest, but it seems like we ought to try to get it pushed now
>> so that Stephen can make use of the feature for his superuser changes.
>> Thoughts?
>
On 2016-09-05 22:24:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ordinarily I'd be willing to stick this on the queue for the next
> commitfest, but it seems like we ought to try to get it pushed now
> so that Stephen can make use of the feature for his superuser changes.
> Thoughts?
Seems sensible to me. I can ha
Andres Freund writes:
> On September 4, 2016 6:33:30 PM PDT, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think nearly all of the
>> infrastructure for this is already there in extension.c.
> Yes, it doesn't sound very hard...
I poked at this a bit, and indeed it's not that hard. Attached is a
proposed patch (code-co