[postgis-devel] ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPGRADE to '2.1.1'

[Sandro Santilli]

Can that call be _only_ removed from EXTENSION scripts ?
I also pre-date extensions and not sure I want to go there before
those 10 years ;)

--strk;

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> This has been failing for people using packages to manage their
> postgis, because upgrading their postgis2 package is removing the old
> postgis-2.0.so and installing a postgis-2.1.so file.
> 
> I isolated the problem while on the plane, it's the temporary
> postgis_major_version_check function, which calls a library function
> during installation. I think it'll take a half day of careful thinking
> and testing to get a fix that both works on existing installations and
> also does the right thing, which I think is to get rid of that routine
> entirely. It's very old and pre-dates extensions, and we don't have an
> upgrade_15_21 script anyways. We can add a replacement in 10 years
> when we do 3.0
> 
> P.
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