Re: Extension Packaging

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:00 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:

> These are really great points. I knew I wasn't thrilled about this suggest, but wasn't sure why. Frankly, I think it
willbe really confusing to users who think they have FooBar 1.2.2 installed but see only 1.2 in the database. I don't
thinkI would do that, personally. I'm much more inclined to have the same extension version everywhere I can. 

Really, that means you just a sql function to your extension,
somethign similary to uname -a, or rpm -qi, which includes something
that is *forced* to change the postgresql catalog view of your
extension every time you ship a new version (major, or patch), and
then you get the exact version (and whatever else you include) for
free every time you update ;-)

The thing to remember is that the postgresql "extensions" are managing
the *postgresql catalogs* view of things, even though the shared
object used by postgresql to provide the particular catalog's
requirements can be "fixed".

If your extension is almost exclusively a shared object, and the only
catalog things are a couple of functions defined to point into the C
code, there really isn't anything catalog-wise that you need to
"manage" for upgrades.

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