On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> Hmm. To make that work, we'd have to have ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE use a
>>> different default version name from what CREATE EXTENSION uses (unless
>
>> Yes. I see that as a good feature to have. stable and support looks
>> like good default aliases for me, but again, IANANS (native speaker).
>
> I'm not very happy with that at all, either as to the concept or the
> specific version-alias names. I don't think that CREATE and ALTER
> really need different default version targets. And those choices of
> names carry far too much baggage. "Default" is what they are as far as
> the system is concerned, but names like those imply a lot more.
>
> Anybody else have an opinion on this detail?
I think they should be the same. Anything else seems confusing and weird.
Best,
David