On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 1:03 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
> > Right, I think it would have to be opt-in. Say, a new control file
> > option dump_version or some such.
>
> That would require all the installed extensions to cope with this
> the same way, which does not seem like a great assumption.
How so? Most installed extensions would not opt into a version dump,
I'd imagine.
Or do you mean that the version dump would apply retroactively to
older versions of the extension, even if it wasn't needed in the past?
--Jacob