<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Brian,<div>I also answer (quite faster than in my previous mail) on this mailling list.</div><div><br></div><div>You could use any PostgreSQL version you want. For this, you just have to tell portage that you want ot use an *unstable* postgresql version as spécified also in the blog entry provided by Drew. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><div>Le 13 juin 09 à 02:18, Andrew Sheedy a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Ah Gentoo I love thee.<div><br></div><div>Check this blog entry Brian: <a href="http://hasno.info/2008/7/31/upgrading-to-postgresql-8-3-on-gentoo">http://hasno.info/2008/7/31/upgrading-to-postgresql-8-3-on-gentoo</a></div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://hasno.info/2008/7/31/upgrading-to-postgresql-8-3-on-gentoo"></a>The gist of it being:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 18px; ">..largely due to the overall postgresql upgrade philosophy, which involves dumping (backing up) all your dbs and the restoring them after the upgrade. Since that isn't a seamless process, I'm sure they want an upgrade to be a conscious decision. That being said, the current upgrade path involves switching from the <code>dev-db/postgresql</code> package to the <code>dev-db/postgresql-base</code>/<code>dev-db/postgresql-server</code>packages.</span></blockquote> <br><div class="gmail_quote">HTH</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Drew</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Brian Modra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@zwartberg.com">brian@zwartberg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0,8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">Hi<br> does anyone know of any problems with postgis in postgresql 8.1.11 ?<br> I'm using postgis 1.3.1 in postgresql 8.1.11<br> <br> uname says:<br> Linux lead 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Sat Apr 5 18:42:58 SAST 2008 i686<br> Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux<br> <br> The reason I ask is that Gentoo's package management system (portage)<br> wanted to downgrade postgres to 8.0.15...<br> I assume this is because postgis was tested by the gentoo maintainers<br> on postgres 8.0.15 only, but I'm a bit concerned that there may be<br> some problem they spotted in the 8.1 database.<br> Can anyone confirm that postgis 1.3.1 is actually totally stable in<br> postgresql 8.1.11 ?<br> <br> Thanks<br> Brian<br> --<br> Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462<br> Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082<br> 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930<br> Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930<br> South Africa<br> <a href="http://www.zwartberg.com/" target="_blank">http://www.zwartberg.com/</a><br> _______________________________________________<br> postgis-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net</a><br> <a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users" target="_blank">http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users</a><br> </blockquote></div><br></div> _______________________________________________<br>postgis-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net</a><br><a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users">http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>