On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, David Fetter wrote:

>>
>> Today you can have multiple versions of slony running on the same
>> instance in different slony clusters. Ie you can have _slonyschema1
>> and _slonyschema2 both running on the same database with different
>> versions of slony.
>
> Is this an important capability in practice?
>

I don't know how many users are doing this or why.
Maybe ask in -general?

>> The .so has the version number in the filename and for the C symbols we
>> encode the version number as part of the symbol name.
>
> It might be possible to do this inside the current framework by adding
> a new EXTENSION each version and having its upgrade path include the
> removal of the previous .so.  It could be pretty fiddly, though.
>

> Best,
> David.
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