Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> writes:
> Andrew Gierth wrote:
>> - what to do when installing the new version's .sql into an existing db;
>> the send/recv support and some of the index support doesn't get installed
>> if the hstore type and opclasses already exist. In the case of an upgrade
>> (or a dump/restore from an earlier version) it would be nice to make all
>> the functionality available; but there's no CREATE OR REPLACE for types
>> or operator classes.
> If the perfect solution is too complex, I'd also kinda hope this isn't a
> show-stopper for this patch, but rather a TODO for the future modules feature.
Yeah, this is a long-standing generic issue, and not really hstore's
problem to fix.
regards, tom lane