<div dir="auto">Very interesting discussion, and everything you've all said makes sense. That said, if there are no constraints preventing it, let's move forward with using the 'text' type?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 21, 2025, 5:24 PM Regina Obe <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> > But if you added it to proj.db too with just the new srid you added in<br>
> spatial_ref_sys wouldn't it read from proj.db?<br>
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> Yeah, but, why? I don’t tend to think of proj.db as something normal humans<br>
> mess with, and definitely since it’s bundled with the proj software packages<br>
> there’s a likelihood of it getting overwritten on upgrade, which makes it a poor<br>
> place for local customizations.<br>
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I have lofty dreams of getting rid of spatial_ref_sys and making it a view against proj.db or something else.<br>
This eye-sore of us treating it like it's a non-volatile thing and PostgreSQL deciding to not load it in time in pg_upgrade<br>
wants me to not have it in the db at all. Not to mention the annoyance of keeping track of what we shipped and what we didn't.<br>
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But yes it's perhaps an ill-conceived dream that lets out more worms than it traps.<br>
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