Re: dfmgr additional ABI version fields

On 19.11.21 08:58, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:50:38PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I'm not a different vendor, but I do work on different code than you
>> do, and I like this. Advanced Server accidentally dodges this problem
>> at present by shipping with a different FUNC_MAX_ARGS value, but this
>> is much cleaner.
> 
> I am pretty sure that Greenplum could benefit from something like
> that.  As a whole, using a string looks like a good idea for that.
> 
>> Would it be reasonable to consider something similar for the control
>> file, for the benefit of distributions that are not the same on disk?
> 
> Hmm.  Wouldn't that cause more harm than actual benefits?

The catalog version already serves this purpose.