On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > > I am waiting the result of the pg_dump from 7.2.x to 7.3 restore discussion. > > Right. We clearly have to support loading of 7.2 dumps; the only issue > in my mind is exactly how we kluge that up ;-). I just talked to Bruce > about this a little bit, and we came to the conclusion that there are > two plausible-looking paths: > > 1. Relax CREATE LANGUAGE to accept either LANGUAGE_HANDLER or OPAQUE as > the datatype of the function (ie, make it work more like CREATE TRIGGER > does). > > 2. Hack CREATE LANGUAGE so that if it's pointed at an OPAQUE-returning > function, it actually updates the recorded return type of the function > in pg_proc to say LANGUAGE_HANDLER.
Stupid question, but why not just create an upgrade script that does any required translations external to the database? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
