On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 03:35:46PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2020, at 15:13, Sandro Santilli <s...@kbt.io> wrote: > > > On pgsql-hackers we only want to find a future-proof way to "package > > existing objects into an extension". > > What is the longterm goal of PostGIS, to use this as a stepping stone to reach > a point where no unpackaged extensions exist; or find a way to continue with > the current setup except with syntax that isn't going away?
No unpackaged extension seems like a good goal in the long term. > Overloading the same syntax for creating packaged as well as unpackaged > extensions sounds like the wrong path to go down. So what other options would we have to let people upgrade a running postgis or postgis_raster outside of the EXTENSION mechanism ? --strk;
