Re: proposal - get_extension_version function

st 8. 3. 2023 v 23:43 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> napsal:

> Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
> > What I'm trying to pin down is the project's position on the reverse
> > -- binary version X and SQL version X+1 -- because that seems
> > generally unmaintainable, and I don't understand why an author would
> > pay that tax if they could just avoid it by bailing out entirely. (If
> > an author wants to allow that, great, but does everyone have to?)
>
> Hard to say. Our experience with the standard contrib modules is that
> it really isn't much additional trouble; but perhaps more-complex modules
> would have more interdependencies between functions. In any case,
> I fail to see the need for basing things on a catalog lookup rather
> than embedding API version numbers in relevant C symbols.
>

How can you check it? There is not any callback now.

Regards

Pavel

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> regards, tom lane
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