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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support % wildcard in extension upgrade filenames
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 05:51:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> Have you considered the idea of instead inventing a "\include" facility

[...]

> cases, you still need one script file for each supported upgrade step

That's exactly the problem we're trying to solve here.
The include support is nice on itself, but won't solve our problem.

--strk;