Re: revised hstore patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> Perhaps an appropriate thing to do is separate out the representation
> change from the other new features, and apply just the latter for now.
> Or maybe we should think about having two versions of hstore.  This
> is all tied up in the problem of having a decent module infrastructure
> (which I hope somebody is working on for 8.5).  I don't know where
> we're going to end up for 8.5, but I'm disinclined to let a fairly
> minor contrib feature improvement break upgrade-compatibility before
> we've even really started the cycle.

I can just have pg_migrator detect hstore and require it be removed
before upgrading;  we did that already for 8.3 to 8.4 and I am assuming
we will continue to have cases there pg_migrator just will not work.

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