Re: Online PostgreSQL version() updates

On 4/1/26 12:48 PM, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> Attached is a patch that allows superusers to update the version() of
> their running system with a simple SQL call: SELECT
> pg_update_version(version_num, 'version_short', 'the full version()
> outout'). Running backends will automatically get updated without
> impacting their active workloads, and new backends will immediately
> notice the new version().

Thanks for the patch!

Some small quibbles:

- The NULL checks for arguments to pgsql_update_version() should say
which field contained a NULL value.

- The error message for the superuser check should be something like
"must be superuser to perform online version updates"

- The error messages for the version length checks could be imrpoved,
e.g. by saying how long it was comapred to the limit which was hit.

- There is a copy pasto in the second length check. Surely
versionCtl->size in the detail should be PG_CACHE_LINE_SIZE. Also I
wonder if detail shouldn't actually be a hint.

- Shouldn't GetCurrentVersionStr() be static? Or do you think it would
be useful for extensions?

- There is an accidental extra newline in the middle of
VersionCtlShmemInit().

- Maybe I am missing something but why do we need to size field at all
in PgVersionControl? Is this size known at compile time?

Thanks again for a great feature!

--
Andreas Karlsson
Percona