On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 10:16 AM Jacob Champion wrote:
> Even more concretely, here's a draft patch. There's no nuance --
> setting dump_version affects all past versions of the extension, and
> it can't be turned off at restore time. So extensions opting in would
> have to be written to be
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM Jacob Champion wrote:
> As a concrete example, Timescale's extension control file could look
> like this:
>
> default_version = '2.x.y'
> module_pathname = '$libdir/timescaledb-2.x.y'
> ...
> dump_version = true
>
> which would then cause pg_dump to
On 1/12/23 11:04, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 1:03 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>> Jacob Champion writes:
>>> Right, I think it would have to be opt-in. Say, a new control file
>>> option dump_version or some such.
>>
>> That would require all the installed extensions to cope with this
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 1:03 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Jacob Champion writes:
> > Right, I think it would have to be opt-in. Say, a new control file
> > option dump_version or some such.
>
> That would require all the installed extensions to cope with this
> the same way, which does not seem like a
Jacob Champion writes:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 7:53 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>> I also fear that it will break
>> a bunch of use-cases that work fine today, which are exactly the
>> ones for which we originally defined pg_dump as *not* committing
>> to a particular extension version.
> Right, I
On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 7:53 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Jacob Champion writes:
> > Unless I'm missing something obvious (please, let it be that) there's no
> > way to do this safely. Once you've marked an internal table as dumpable,
> > its schema is effectively frozen if you want your dumps to work
Jacob Champion writes:
> We'd like to be allowed to change the schema for a table that's been
> marked in the past with pg_extension_config_dump().
> Unless I'm missing something obvious (please, let it be that) there's no
> way to do this safely. Once you've marked an internal table as
Hi all,
I've been talking to other Timescale devs about a requested change to
pg_dump, and there's been quite a bit of back-and-forth to figure out
what, exactly, we want. Any mistakes here are mine, but I think we've
been able to distill it down to the following request:
We'd like to be allowed
