[Live-demo] postgis test steps out dated

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 18:20:11 EDT 2010


Brian,
Yes, test steps can be as simple as "Run the Quickstart". Unfortunately 
we don't have a Quickstart for PostGIS, but I'd love to see someone 
convert the PostGIS test steps into a quickstart.

On 11/08/10 02:56, Brian Hamlin wrote:
> Hi Cameron-
>   the current setup makes a kind of "double work"
> with the Quickstart plus the wiki Test Page..
>
> I wrote all the Medford steps for the last dvd
> but I tried to politely side-step the whole thing this time
> because the Quickstart serves a lot of the same function
> (and I have a deadline at work that is hard right now...)
>
> here is a simple PostGIS query that works with natural earth
>
> SELECT
>   p.natscale,
>   p.name,
>   p.namealt,
>   c.country
> FROM
>   public."10m_populated_places_simple" p,
>   public."10m-admin-0-countries" c
> WHERE
>   ST_Contains( c.the_geom, p.the_geom)
>   and c.country = 'Spain'
> ORDER BY
>   p.natscale DESC;
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing#postgis
>> Could someone familiar with PostGIS please update the test steps 
>> which currently reference the deprecated medford data. (Probably use 
>> the naturalearth data instead).
>>
>> I assume that postgis is actually working, so I've downgraded the 
>> test result from "failed" to "passed with issues". But would prefer 
>> if we could give postgis a clean "pass".
>>
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