Hi The reasons are 1) Each time that you have to rename your upgrade script after sync with master you have to rename the function as well 2) As a result, may function are pushed with a wrong suffix (for example upgrade 03_01_0950 had a function name suffix of 08200) Since the reason for that numbering was in the first place for avoiding dropping real installed functions, now you will have just to put in a temporary function created in an upgrade script just the prefix "__temp_" Hope that this will make handling upgrade scripts more accurate and less painful. This was documented as well at the oVirt db upgrade wiki page: http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt-database-upgrade-procedure (see section 1.5 Temporary Functions in Upgrade scripts)