Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
> My concern with this approach (upgrade is forced through all
> intermetiary versions) is that the shared libray now for version 15
> *has* to have all the "intermediary" compatibility for *all* versions
> in it. So it has to have functions with all symbols so the "CREATE
> ..." staements for all previous 15 versions can succeed.
Bear in mind though that the compatibility stubs only have to be stubs;
the C function needn't do anything except perhaps throw elog(ERROR).
This doesn't seem very onerous to me.
regards, tom lane