May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
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Another system view, pg_available_extension_versions, shows all the versions that are 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 superuser can perform an upgrade by issuing the following command:
ALTER EXTENSION mytext UPDATE TO '1.1';
This assumes that the author of the extension taught it how to perform the upgrade.
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