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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Another system view, pg_available_extension_versions, shows all the versions available for each extension. It can be valuable when there are multiple versions of the same extension available at the same time; for example when making preparations for an extension upgrade.

When a more recent version of an already installed extension becomes available to the database server, for instance, because of a distribution upgrade that installs updated package files, the super user can perform an upgrade by issuing the following command:

ALTER EXTENSION myext UPDATE TO '1.1';

This assumes that the author of the extension taught it how to perform the upgrade.

Extensions interact nicely with logical backup and restore nicely, a topic that ...

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