On 1/15/15 2:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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.
Effectively, we don't, but it's not unreasonable to expect it. Check how your operating system upgrades other server packages such as apache or openssh. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
