[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1287: Drop of "gist_geometry_ops" broke a few clients

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#1287: Drop of "gist_geometry_ops" broke a few clients
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  Reporter:  strk     |       Owner:  pramsey      
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  reopened     
  Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
 Component:  postgis  |     Version:  trunk        
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  history      
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Changes (by robe):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  wontfix =>


Comment:

 Paul,

 What's your feeling about providing this as part of legacy.  I'm tempted
 to just have it as a separate file like what Mapserver does here:

 https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataWindows

 Then just documenting the issue in our manual.  My reason for not wanting
 to include in the core legacy, is I fear it will bite us later on since
 people following examples will accidentally start using it.  Right now
 restoring data from 1.5 backup there is no issue, because since it was the
 default index option, the backups don't even have this gist_geometry_ops
 on load even if people chose it, but if people start using it globally
 then we'll have issues since they'll be forever stuck in legacy mode.

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