Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar feb 15 12:42:00 -0300 2011: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > pageinspect is just a debugging aid, so I think we should change it from > > smallint to int4 in 9.1, and not bother backporting. > > I don't see any reason that the old version of the function couldn't be > dropped in the upgrade script. It's not likely anything would be > depending on it, is it? Okay, so I changed the C code, and there's working upgrade support that takes you from the 9.0 version to the 9.1 version. I tested this by creating a 9.0 database with pageinspect loaded, then pg_upgrade'd it to 9.1, then ran create extension pageinspect from unpackaged; If I run the function before running the CREATE EXTENSION command, it works but still displays the negative numbers. After that, it behaves as expected. I was a bit surprised that I had to remove the ALTER EXTENSION/ADD FUNCTION command from the upgrade script, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense -- those commands are being run inside the "create_extension" context and so the function being created already belongs to the extension. Still, maybe we should make ALTER EXTENSION/ADD idempotent. I considered the idea of calling this version 1.1 and shipping a new pageinspect--1.0--1.1.sql script (which works perfectly, provided you run ALTER EXTENSION/DROP FUNCTION before dropping the function, then ALTER/ADD later), but decided that this was overkill. We can still change it if people thinks that'd be better, of course, but ... Nice work on extensions and their upgradability, overall. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers