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Re: Version management for extensions

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On 10/18/15 6:43 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:

It seems like there should be some way to mark a feature-release of an
extension, versus a server-compatibility-only release (also versus a
bug-fix-in-extension release).

The problem is worse than that: the 'version' string for an extension is just that: a dumb string. So you can't even do intelligent > comparisons, unless you're really careful with how you define your string. If we had semantic versions you could at least mark bug releases without blowing things up.

I don't see any great way to handle comparability other than to have different extension names. I don't really see it as a problem though... normally when something adds compatability with a new environment it's done as part of a version release.

What might be interesting would be allowing the control file to specify what PG versions are supported.
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