[postgis-devel] PostGIS 3.3.0alpha1 released

[Regina Obe]

> > On May 27, 2022, at 12:18 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 12:36:46PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >
> >> why we push the patch number down into our scripts
> >
> > Because ALTER EXTENSION needs a <current_version>--<next_version> to
> > do ANY upgrade at all ?
> 
> Yes, exactly to run an upgrade SCRIPT. But if we commit to no script-level
> changes in patch releases, then we can strip out the need to ever to
patch-
> level ALTER EXTENSION calls.
> 
> P
> 
> 
> >
> > --strk;
[Regina Obe] 
The only case we'd need them is in our master branch.
But then as long as we keep the -next hack that satisfies that need.