[postgis-users] Update gdal - implact on existing PG installation

[Devrim Gündüz]

Hi,

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 11:00 -0400, Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca wrote:
> I have installed postgres 9.3 and postgis 2 on centos 6.5, with gdal
> 1.9
> I need to install another software that requires gdal 1.11.
> 
> My knowledge on linux and postgres is not good enough to evaluate the 
> impacts of updating to gdal 1.11
> 
> Will I need to do something with my postgres/postgis installation?

PostGIS depends on GDAL, so you may need to recompile all the stuff by
hand or build custom RPMS that depend on GDAL 1.11.

I would suggest you to update to CentOS 7 -- it includes GDAL 1.11 and
the PostGIS RPM in http://yum.PostgreSQL.org is built against GDAL 1.11.

Regards,
-- 
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

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