The C source files can now be formatted with pgindent using
a new CMake build target.
The location of pgindent and dependencies are auto-discovered
by CMake or can be overridden on the command line.
The extension now works with PostgreSQL 10, while
retaining compatibility with version 9.6.
PostgreSQL 10 has numerous internal changes to functions and
APIs, which necessitates various glue code and compatibility
wrappers to seamlessly retain backwards compatiblity with older
versions.
Test output might also differ between versions. In particular,
the psql client generates version-specific output with `\d` and
EXPLAINs might differ due to new query optimizations. The test
suite has been modified as follows to handle these issues. First,
tests now use version-independent functions to query system
catalogs instead of using `\d`. Second, changes have been made to
the test suite to be able to verify some test outputs against
version-dependent reference files.
Moving the build system to CMake allows easy cross-platform
compiles, dependency checks, and more. In particular, CMake
allows us to easily build on Windows, and Visual Studio now
has native CMake support.
- Save an intermediate build image to avoid having to download APK
packages for every build
- Add debug symbols and assertions to extension build
- Install git and gdb by default for easier debugging
To allow upgrading versions older than the most recent one,
update scripts from older versions need to be added to the
extension. This is now done by including all files in the
file extra_extension_files.txt to the extension. Currently
that file needs to be manually updated when a new release
is built.
SQL code is now split into setup, functions, and init files to
allow a subset to be run when the extension is updated. During
build, an update script is now also generated.
Release Docker builds are now provided in a separate repository,
https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-docker.
Tests and development builds for Docker are now provided
by two new scripts in the scripts directory:
- `docker-build.sh` to build a development image from current sources.
- `docker-run-tests.sh` to run tests for current sources through a Docker container.
