[Live-demo] which version of PostGIS on OSGeo-Live? What apps will be effected?

[Brian Hamlin]

sounds good -
but tomorrow is a major holiday in the United States, I doubt andy US  
people will be online
   -Brian

On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Based upon feedback so far, I'm incline to suggest that we include  
> PostGIS 2.0 on OSGeo-Live (and no prior versions).
>
> It seems like there will be a couple of projects which might need  
> to make some tweaks to their applications, something that would be  
> in the pipeline for these applications' development paths already.
> So I propose:
> 1. We discuss this at our weekly meeting tomorrow:
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html? 
> year=2012&month=11&day=22&hour=19&min=30&sec=0&p1=179&p2=224&p3=240&p4 
> =215&p5=136&p6=240
>
> 2. Assuming all agree, test installing PostGIS 2.0 only for the  
> next few OSGeo-Live builds. If a showstopper issue is found, then  
> roll back to 1.5.2-2.
> Our key criteria is that all quickstarts work, and applications  
> which can connect to a Postgis data source have been tested to see  
> if they can still do so, at least for a simple case.
>
>
> On 21/11/2012 5:29 AM, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Andrea Aime <andrea.aime at geo- 
>>> solutions.it> wrote:
>>> GeoServer tries to support old versions of PostGIS and newer  
>>> ones, long story short we need to check the version to support both.
>>> The issue being that PostGIS 1.2 did no have some of the  
>>> ST_<name> functions, but only had <name>, and PostGIS 2.0 only has
>>> the ST_ ones
>>>
>>> Just to clarify, recent versions of GeoServer do support PostGIS  
>>> 2.0.
>>> The above was just an explaination about how GeoServer supports  
>>> PostGIS versions between 1.2 and 2.0 by recognizing
>>> the version of the DB it's hooked against, and issuing the right  
>>> SQL accordingly
>>
>>   my understanding of this email is that support for PostGIS 2.0  
>> is done in the current released GeoServer
>>
>>
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>> Brian Hamlin
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