[postgis-devel] In-place upgrade to 2.0

[Paul Ramsey]

yes, my scheme was going to be to two-step by first creating
GEOMETRY2, then altering all the columns to that (by maintaining an
lwgeom handler to do the cast from serialized_form to gserialized),
then creating GEOMETRY and altering all the columns to that. Which
would work fine for data-only databases, but installations with more
complex constructions (views, triggers) expecting 'geometry' input
arguments might balk if I alter their column types underneath them.

P.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/05/11 10:56, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> The mechanism is the same for everyone, the 9.1 users just get it
>> "automagically" with a SQL command and everyone else has to (quell
>> horror!) run a .sql file.
>>
>> Though now that I think about it in the clear light of early morning
>> there's lots of ways my scheme will fail, so perhaps not.
>
> I thought that in-place upgrade only works if the binary formats are
> unchanged? So if we change LWGEOM -> G_GEOMETRY then this isn't going to
> work. Or does the extension upgrade execute an ALTER COLUMN statement to
> rebuild the column anyway?
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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