[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4

[Paragon Corporation]

Dave,

Are you planning to run this as a service or just via pg_ctl as needed.  I
think as service you will always be writing to the registry no option.  If
you only need it to run while your app is running, then I think you can skip
the registry thing.

Vista is particularly finicky with security as you have probably
experienced.

Hope that helps,
Regina 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Waddell,
Dave FOR:EX
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:12 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4

Thanks Regina and Mark.  Makes sense now.

For a bare bones PostgreSQL and PostGIS install on Vista, can I get away
without the windows registry entries?

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Cave-Ayland
Sent: Thu, August 6, 2009 1:56 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4

Paragon Corporation wrote:

> Dave,
>  
> Both should work fine.  The version we compiled was the newest 
> libiconv2, but we tested the shp2pgsql with the old version and the 
> new and it seemed to work fine for us in either case and didn't notice

> any issues with the PostgreSQL behavior we have.
>  
> So I think you are fine sticking with what is packaged with the 
> PostgreSQL 8.4 if its got the same name.
>  
> The installation issues discussed before were caused because PostGIS 
> install tried to overwrite the libiconv-2.dll which was already 
> present in PostgreSQL installs so the solution has always been to just

> skip it if you have it.  Although in my PostgreSQL 8.4 install for 
> some reason the file that I got when installing was libiconv.dll 
> (which is the same as libiconv-2.dll more or less), but PostGIS the 
> way it is compiled needs it to be called libiconv-2.dll
>  
> Mark correct me if anything I send is wrong.

That pretty much sounds correct. It only occurs because the GNUWin32 folks
took it upon themselves to give the DLLs different names than those created
with autotools, and with the PostgreSQL move to MSVC then this has become
more of an issue. At the moment PostgreSQL and PostGIS have their own
separate DLLs, and so all is well :)


HTH,

Mark.

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