[postgis-devel] trunk regress fails - PostgreSQL Minimum version?

[Paul Ramsey]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Paragon Corporation<lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> The buffer functions work fine for me on 8.4.  Kevin, was this just in 8.2?
> If I have my way -- we won't be supporting 8.2 for PostGIS 1.5 so would be a
> moot point.
>
> Or shall I say one more reason to ditch 8.2 :)
>
> Paul and Kevin -- I think Mark and I are in agreement on ditching 8.2 for
> 1.5 what about you 2?

I think you guys are pretty harsh. However, since I've built an 8.3
dependency into 1.5 I guess I am in favor.

> I know Kevin gave a +1 to the matrix -- and I'm in full agreement we need a
> matrix (listing at the very minimum for each PostGIS version which
> PostgreSQL versions we support).  I'd be willing to write that up too.

You never need permission to add documentation :)

P

> Thanks,
> Regina
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of strk
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] trunk regress fails
>
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:01:31AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> Kevin Neufeld wrote:
>
>> >ERROR:  cannot cast type text to cstring
>> >LINE 4:   CAST('quad_segs='||CAST($3 AS text) as cstring))
>>
>> Hmmmm looks like this was introduced by strk's new buffer code. If we
>> ask him nicely, will he fix it? ;)
>
> I remember a similar problem with 8.3, which forced me to cast as 'text'
> first and 'cstring' second (direct casting wasn't supported).
> I'm afraid it'll take some pg-version-specific macro to fix this.
> I can only test 8.3.7 atm, if anyone provides a fix for older I will try
> there.
>
> --strk;
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