[postgis-devel] Moving towards a 1.2.2 release?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:02 -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:16:02PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > 3. Compiling and regression testing against a PostgreSQL 8.3 tree. Most
> > versions tend to break the index code, and I'd be surprised if 8.3 was
> > any different. There are likely to be some small fixes needed here.
> 
> Compiling against 8.3devel fails:
> 
> lwgeom_geos_c.c: In function `postgis_geos_version':
> lwgeom_geos_c.c:84: warning: implicit declaration of function `VARATT_SIZEP'
> lwgeom_geos_c.c:84: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
> 
> I think this is the relevant commit:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-02/msg00517.php
> 
> I haven't followed the discussion surrounding that commit enough
> to know how best to write code that must compile against 8.3 and
> earlier versions.  The attached patch gets PostGIS to compile and
> pass all regression tests against 8.3devel but it will break builds
> against earlier versions.  In a few places I replaced the constant 4
> with VARHDRSZ but somebody more familiar with the code might want to
> evaluate whether VARHDRSZ is indeed what's intended.

Just for reference (in case anyone else gets to this before I do), here
is the other change in 8.3 I thought might break PostGIS:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-12/msg00166.php. I
have yet to set up an 8.3 tree of my own though.


Kind regards,

Mark.

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