[postgis-devel] In-place upgrade to 2.0

[Paragon Corporation]

Yes you are correct -- it will bulk.  You have to drop the views currently
if you change any column used in a view.  The ability for a view to
automagically rebuild themselves has been on the plate for as far back as I
can remember and I don't think its funded yet and it drives Leo crazy :).

However for 9.1 users, 9.1 supports ALTER TYPE  so you could just change the
TYPE underneath the hood so even if uses use views, it should work to just
ALTER the TYPE.  But of course you probably already new that :)

Thanks,
Regina 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Ramsey
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:30 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] In-place upgrade to 2.0

yes, my scheme was going to be to two-step by first creating GEOMETRY2, then
altering all the columns to that (by maintaining an lwgeom handler to do the
cast from serialized_form to gserialized), then creating GEOMETRY and
altering all the columns to that. Which would work fine for data-only
databases, but installations with more complex constructions (views,
triggers) expecting 'geometry' input arguments might balk if I alter their
column types underneath them.

P.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/05/11 10:56, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> The mechanism is the same for everyone, the 9.1 users just get it 
>> "automagically" with a SQL command and everyone else has to (quell
>> horror!) run a .sql file.
>>
>> Though now that I think about it in the clear light of early morning 
>> there's lots of ways my scheme will fail, so perhaps not.
>
> I thought that in-place upgrade only works if the binary formats are 
> unchanged? So if we change LWGEOM -> G_GEOMETRY then this isn't going 
> to work. Or does the extension upgrade execute an ALTER COLUMN 
> statement to rebuild the column anyway?
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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