[postgis-devel] trunk == 2.0.1

[Paul Ramsey]

Right, you can mostly get away with just slamming an unfiltered dump
file onto the new database, subject to (a) being willing to ignore the
many errors you will log and (b) the specific issues you note below.

P.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> Hi All-
>
>  this was a startling thing to read!
> A quick read of postgis_restore.pl says to me though..
>
> IF you have old topology constructs or
> IF you have old WKT Raster or
> IF you have custom, non-standard SRIDs in use or
> IF (unlikely) you are trying to restore PostGIS function calls somehow from
> the .dump file
>
> THEN you must use postgis_restore.pl
> OTHERWISE no, it is not required
>
>  This is the start of a rather important FAQ I think !
>
> best regards
>
> ==
> Brian Hamlin
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>
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> Angelos, see this
>>
>>
>> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22945/postgis-2-0-upgrade-problem-with-postgres-data
>>
>> Is there any way to warn people as they upgrade, because 2.0 is not
>> backwards compatible with 1.5. They need to dump their database before
>> they upgrade and run it through postgis_restore.pl while loading it
>> back into 2.0.
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, no one can hear us :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/03/2012 11:15 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Sssssh :)
>>>> thanks,
>>>> P
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Angelos Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>
>>>>> I assumed this is the final:
>>>>> http://postgis.org/download/postgis-2.0.0.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/03/2012 11:11 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are all the versions numbers correct? What did you package off of? I
>>>>>> haven't released the tarball yet...
>>>>>> P.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Angelos Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Devs,
>>>>>>>> I have tagged 2.0.0. I have not branched a 2.0 yet. I would like to
>>>>>>>> hold 2.0 development on trunk until we do a 2.0.1 release. At that
>>>>>>>> point we can create a 2.0 branch and bring new features online in
>>>>>>>> trunk.
>>>>>>>> Uploading and preparing text now for release announcement.
>>>>>>>> P.
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>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have completed packaging of v2.0 for openSUSE.
>>>>>>> Waiting the announcement to release the rpms :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
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