Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> I don't see what that does for you. This is still all being examined by
> a particular major release of PG, so what will it do with a require that
> specifies some other major release? Nothing useful. And there's a very
> significant downside, which is that this takes us right back to the
> make-work of having to change all the contrib modules' control files in
> every release cycle.
Mmm, yes we're missing the | operator for dependencies here. I didn't
expect extensions that support more than one major version at a time to
use the feature, but obviously that's not good enough.
> Once again, I see the version numbers as being specifiers for versions
> of the install script files. Not the Postgres version those files are
> being run in. Confusing the two is a bad idea. Confusing the install
> script version numbers with minor release numbers (bugfix level
> identifiers) is even worse. You *don't* want to change these numbers if
> you're just fixing a bug at the C code level.
Agreed on the C side maintenance and releasing. What if your extension
is PL/pgSQL only and you just fixed a bug in one of the functions?
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