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Jeff Janes wrote:
> I am facing a scenario where I have different version of an extension, say 1.0 and 2.0, which have
> some different functionality between them (so not merely a bug fix), so people might want to continue
> to use 1.0.
> 
> But changes to the PostgreSQL software between major versions requires changes to the extension's
> source code.
> 
> So I  basically have 4 versions to carry:
> 
> 1.0_for_9.4_or_before
> 2.0_for_9.4_or_before
> 1.0_for_9.5
> 2.0_for_9.5
> 
> 
> Is there some easy way to handle this?  Are there examples of existing modules which have a similar
> situation (and which handle it well) on PGXN or pgfoundry or other public repositories?

I don't think that there is an easy solution.

Could some #ifdefs make the same code work for 9.4 and 9.5?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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