[postgis-devel] PostGIS 3.3.0alpha1 released

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:46:13PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
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> > On May 27, 2022, at 12:18 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 12:36:46PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
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> >> 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 ?
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> 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.

The only way to do that would be to FORBID implementing ANY PostGIS
function in SQL or pl/pgsql. I don't see that happening (and some
functions we do in SQL so they can be inlined)

--strk;