On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> My concern with this approach (upgrade is forced through all
> intermetiary versions) is that the shared libray now for version 15
> *has* to have all the "intermediary" compatibility for *all* versions
> in it.  So it has to have functions with all symbols so the "CREATE
> ..." staements for all previous 15 versions can succeed.
> 
> With having the $old -> $new scripts, the new .so only needs to have
> functions enough that the DROPs work, and the new CREATE... work.

Yeah, so that's another argument for some sort of include syntax, instead, so 
the upgrade scripts can include other scripts as appropriate.

Best,

David


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