On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:56:48AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 11/30/14 11:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > The "API break" isn't a big issue imo. The net effect would be that eg > > hstore 9.3.6 wouldn't work against a 9.3.5 server. We do that sort of > > thing *all the time* --- at least twice in the past year, according to > > a quick scan of the commit logs. If you were changing or removing a > > function that third-party code might depend on, it'd be problematic, > > but an addition has no such risk. > > This sort of things is actually a bit of an annoyance, because it means > that for minor-version upgrades, you need to stop the server before > unpacking the new version, otherwise the old running server will try to > load the new hstore module and fail with a symbol lookup. This can > increase the downtime significantly. > > Yes, we've done this before, and people have gotten bitten by it before.
Uh, do we ever support installing new binaries while the server is running? I would hope not. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
