Re: [HACKERS] Contrib Versions

2011-05-12 Thread David E. Wheeler
On May 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Would changing the versions from 1.0 to 1.0.0 really break anything for >> those folks? > > It would as soon as they needed to do an ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE .. Ah-ite, screw it then. Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-ha

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib Versions

2011-05-12 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:33 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: >> Having said that, I don't really care that much, except that it seems >> a bit late in the release cycle to be changing this.  People have >> presumably already got installations that they hope to not have to >> scratch and reload for 9.1

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib Versions

2011-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
"David E. Wheeler" writes: > On May 12, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Having said that, I don't really care that much, except that it seems >> a bit late in the release cycle to be changing this. People have >> presumably already got installations that they hope to not have to >> scratch a

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib Versions

2011-05-12 Thread David E. Wheeler
On May 12, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > I had somewhat intentionally not numbered them in the same format as the > main release numbers, because if we did that, people would expect them > to match the main release numbers. Well, I think the fact that they're all 1.x managed to do that well

Re: [HACKERS] Contrib Versions

2011-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
"David E. Wheeler" writes: > Hackers, > I don't suppose I could convince you to use dotted-decimal version numbers > for the contrib extension versions, rather than numerics, could I? At this > point, I think that would just mean changing them from 1.0 to 1.0.0. > Why? Well, PGXN uses semantic

[HACKERS] Contrib Versions

2011-05-12 Thread David E. Wheeler
Hackers, I don't suppose I could convince you to use dotted-decimal version numbers for the contrib extension versions, rather than numerics, could I? At this point, I think that would just mean changing them from 1.0 to 1.0.0. Why? Well, PGXN uses semantic versions, which have this format, so