[postgis-devel] 0.9.1, LWGEOM/HWGEOM, branches

[strk at refractions.net]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:08:03PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Strk,
> 
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:16:36 +0200
> strk at refractions.net wrote:
> 
> > A proposal to avoid confusion:
> > 
> >  - CVS pgis_0_9_9 branch:
> >    o *drop* LWGEOM 
> > 
> >  - CVS HEAD branch:
> >    o *drop* HWGEOM
> > 
> >  - Release postgis-0.9.1:
> >    o sync support for PostgreSQL 8.0.0 (beta3)
> > 
> > Comments ?
> 
> As the upgrade to PostgreSQL seems to enforce a dump/restore - will
> those restores work when postgis is updated at the same time?
> 
> I recently had some problems when restoring dumps containing postgis
> data when the postgis version changed inbetween (including the problem
> that the 0.8.so could not be found when there actually was a 0.9.so).
> 
> Generally, a safe and easy way to migrate between postgis versions would
> be appreciable.
> 
> Markus

That was my primary concern when asked to manage the transition to
LWGEOM. I've implemented a postgis_restore.pl script for exactly
this task. It's in utils/.
The code is still young, but have been reported to work on a variety
of from-to versions configurations.
Any report on its use is welcome.
--strk;