On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Well, pg_upgrade is designed to work within a major-version series, eg
> you could do a 9.1-to-9.1 upgrade if you needed to install a newer
> version of an extension.  Admittedly, this is swinging a rather larger
> hammer than "apply an upgrade script" would entail.

Dude. That's a frigging piledriver!

> But I'm still not
> convinced that we need to expend a great deal of work on making that
> process a tad more efficient.

Agreed. I would handle simple extension upgrades not with pg_upgrade, but the 
same way I do now. Think about how one currently jumps from PostGIS 1.4 to 1.5.

Best,

David


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