On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:11 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

> On 2020-Nov-24, Andy Fan wrote:
>
> > then we modified the copy/read/out functions for this node.  In
> > _readFuncExpr,
> > we probably add something like
>
> > [ ... ]
>
> > Then we will get a compatible issue if we create a view with the node in
> > the older version and access the view with the new binary.
>
> When nodes are modified, you have to increment CATALOG_VERSION_NO which
> makes the new code incompatible with a datadir previously created


Thank you Alvaro. I just think this issue can be avoided without causing
the incompatible issue. IIUC, after the new binary isn't compatible with
the datadir,  the user has to dump/restore the whole database or use
pg_upgrade.  It is kind of extra work.


-- for precisely this reason.
>

I probably didn't get the real point of this,  sorry about that.

-- 
Best Regards
Andy Fan

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