[postgis-devel] Install only loader

[Paragon Corporation]

Peter,

 

No plans in PostGIS to separate the two.  That is not to say package maintainers can't.

 

As I recall I thought Ubutnu / Debian did put the postgis loader etc tools in a separate client package, but it's been a couple of months since I tested so my memory could be wrong.  That is not to say that that package doesn't depend on regular PostgreSQL / PostGIS though

Since both have some functions in common exposed by a sub library.

 

On windows for this kind of situalion I copy the loader command line and dependencies to a folder on my webserver and have the webserver use them, not sure if something like that would work, though having as a separate package is more convenient.

 

Have you looked at something like GDAL/OGR or is that too hefty for your needs?

 

 

Hope that helps,

Regina

 

 

From: postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter Korduan
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 10:27 AM
To: postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [postgis-devel] Install only loader

 

Hi,

I'm new to this mailing list. Apologize if my question not fits a conceptional topic of this list.
I use postgis since years for a web mapping application, running in single linux based application environments containing a web, map and database server.

Therefore it was usefull to have the laoder installed together with the postgis extention. User could upload shape files over the webserver, php called shp2pgsql to load the shapes into the database in the background and the map server provide the new layer in its web client interface as many other application do.

Since i changed the runtime environment to separate docker containers linked together only via services I have the general question to postgis if it not would be a good idea to have the loader in a separate debian package without postgis and postgresql itself.

It may be more a special question for the debian package builder Francesco Paolo Lovergine, Stephen Frost, Markus Wanner or Bas Couwenberg.

My problem in a litle more detail.
If I have one docker container with a postgis installation e.g. mdillon/postgis. Postgis is installed with all its dependencies. Than I have another container only with a web mapping server. With the postgres container linked into the web container I have access to the database over the tcp connection, but not to the loader. I had to install the loader within the web application container, but the package of postgis would install all these database stuff I have allready in the postgres container. This would be redundant wouldn't it? Anybody know an easy way to install only the loader with a debian or ubuntu base image in a Dockerfile? Is it of interest or planned to support a package only with postgis loader and helpers?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Best regards Peter Korduan 




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