[gdal-dev] gdalinfo on PostGIS rasters (GDAL 1.9)

[Even Rouault]

> Even, that's what I was afraid of... I think I will give it a try. Is there
> a preferred solution between sources from Subversion and the nightly
> snapshots?

up to you

> Second, do I understand it correctly that I need to 1) install GDAL from
> sources,

yes

> and 2) recompile PostGIS on this GDAL version?

not necessarily. The raster module of PostGIS doesn't use the GDAL 
PostGISRaster driver (AFAIK)

> Third, can GDAL trunk live together with my current version of GDAL?

Yes, you have to ./configure --prefix=/some/path and then by adjusting the PATH 
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmenet variables, you can run your custom build of 
GDAL.