[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Change PostGIS library name to drop the minor

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 10:12:00PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> The other particularly evil thought that occurred to me was do you need
> to have a real PostGIS 2.3? What if you were to generate a compatibility
> postgis-2.3.so with empty stub methods - would that be enough to be able
> to remove the extension post-upgrade and then install the new version?

The ALTER EXTENSION itself makes a single call to a function
referencing the shared object and already handles an exception
so it should work.

But generating a compatibility layer seems more work than just
keeping the old signatures in the new code...

--strk;