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

Astrid Emde astrid.emde at wheregroup.com
Tue Nov 20 04:16:15 PST 2012


Am 20.11.2012 10:42, schrieb Andrea Aime:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 20/11/2012 6:34 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
>
>         As for gvSIG, we still don't have support for PostGIS 2.0
>         (even we should). We don't use PostGIS on our default project.
>         So, a database with 1.5 would be great if possible.
>
>         -- 
>         Jorge Sanz
>         http://es.osgeo.org
>
>
>     Jorge,
>     I'm unclear about your message here.
>     Does the gvsig packaged application or quickstart make use of PostGIS?
>     If so, does gvsig use any functions which might break postgis 2.0?
>     (I'm guessing that most applications will only be using simple
>     postgis functions)
>
>
> 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
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>  
PostGIS 2.0 would be great. PostGIS 2.0 is ok for Mapbender.

To support the old functions without st_ we could load the legacy.sql
file which will restore the old functions.

Astrid




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