diff --git a/META.json b/META.json
index b1d8e49..3f4675e 100644
--- a/META.json
+++ b/META.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
    "name": "oai_fdw",
    "abstract": "OAI-PMH foreign data wrapper",
    "description": "A PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper to access OAI-PMH repositories (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).",
-   "version": "1.8.0",
+   "version": "1.9.0",
    "maintainer": [
       "Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>"
    ],
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
      "oai_fdw": {
        "file": "oai_fdw--1.8.sql",
        "docfile": "README.md",
-       "version": "1.8.0",
+       "version": "1.9.0",
        "abstract": "OAI FDW wrapper"
      }
    },
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
    },
    "generated_by": "Jim Jones",
    "meta-spec": {
-      "version": "1.8.0",
+      "version": "1.9.0",
       "url": "http://pgxn.org/meta/spec.txt"
    },
    "tags": [
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9a854e2..8cde0f5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ MODULE_big = oai_fdw
 OBJS = oai_fdw.o
 
 EXTENSION = oai_fdw
-DATA = oai_fdw--1.8.sql oai_fdw--1.7--1.8.sql oai_fdw--1.6--1.7.sql oai_fdw--1.5--1.6.sql oai_fdw--1.4--1.5.sql oai_fdw--1.3--1.5.sql oai_fdw--1.2--1.5.sql oai_fdw--1.1--1.5.sql
+DATA = oai_fdw--1.9.sql oai_fdw--1.8--1.9.sql oai_fdw--1.7--1.8.sql oai_fdw--1.6--1.7.sql oai_fdw--1.5--1.6.sql oai_fdw--1.4--1.5.sql oai_fdw--1.3--1.5.sql oai_fdw--1.2--1.5.sql oai_fdw--1.1--1.5.sql
 REGRESS = create_server import_foreign_schema create_foreign_table select_statements exceptions functions harvest
 
 CURL_CONFIG = curl-config
diff --git a/oai_fdw--1.8--1.9.sql b/oai_fdw--1.8--1.9.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdee80a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/oai_fdw--1.8--1.9.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+\echo "No change in the SQL instructions."
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/oai_fdw--1.8.sql b/oai_fdw--1.9.sql
similarity index 100%
rename from oai_fdw--1.8.sql
rename to oai_fdw--1.9.sql
diff --git a/oai_fdw.control b/oai_fdw.control
index ff252ce..be55106 100644
--- a/oai_fdw.control
+++ b/oai_fdw.control
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 comment = 'Foreign-data wrapper for OAI-PMH 2.0 servers'
-default_version = '1.8'
+default_version = '1.9'
 module_pathname = '$libdir/oai_fdw'
 relocatable = true
\ No newline at end of file