Re: contrib loose ends: 9.0 to 9.1 incompatibilities - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: contrib loose ends: 9.0 to 9.1 incompatibilities
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Msg-id 24940.1297893818@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: contrib loose ends: 9.0 to 9.1 incompatibilities  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
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Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> Well, actually, we *do* have such a mechanism (plpgsql), we just don't
>> want to use it unless we have to.  I wouldn't feel too bad about saying
>> "upgrading tsearch2 directly from 9.0 to 9.4 requires that you have
>> plpgsql installed when you issue the CREATE EXTENSION command".

> We will then need "build"-time requires (build-depends would say debian)
> so that the system knows what's needed to run the install or upgrade
> scripts.

Huh?  It's still an install-time dependency, and anyway the failure
would be pretty obvious.  Please let us not spend time garnishing this
facility with unnecessary stuff, when the list of actually *important*
missing stuff is still a mile long.  Think about what's needed to
support procedural languages as extensions, for starters.  I'll give you
a hint: none of it has anything whatever to do with copying features
from RPM or Debian.
        regards, tom lane


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