[postgis-devel] RFC3

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> *sigh* You're right, the fact that many of the system st_* variants
> that I hate, and want to remove, are underneath operators and types
> makes it impossible to get rid of them cleanly without losing soft
> upgrade.  I guess I will just have to move this to 2.0, when
> dump/restore will be mandatory.
> 
> P

For an upgrade between minor versions, I have no problem with manually 
altering the catalogues as part of the update script. I think we need to 
accept that we may need an upgrades/ directory containing .sql files to 
allow upgrading between different versions.


ATB,

Mark.

-- 
Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect
PostgreSQL - PostGIS
Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom
http://www.siriusit.co.uk
t: +44 870 608 0063