[postgis-devel] bug with postgis backend

[Stephen Mather]

Hah!  Sounds like some of the shenanigans I get up to-- creative
administration has its costs... .

Best,
Steve



On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Rémi Cura <remi.cura at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Olivier ,
> this is why I spoke of an "anecdotal" bug :
> You have to do a lot's of bad things to make it happens!
>
> I wasn't thinking it should be corrected, after all if you delete al postgis
> library postgis stops to work... You can't protect against a very bad usage.
>
> If you consider it important I could try to reproduce, but it's probably
> going to be dirty.
>
> I'm guessing you have more important matters on your todo list =)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rémi-C
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> 2013/12/9 Oliver Courtin <olivier.courtin at oslandia.com>
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>> Le 3 déc. 2013 à 17:41, Rémi Cura a écrit :
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>> Hi Rémi,
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>> an exotic and anecdotal bug:
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>> I deleted all tables in a schema (not postgis schema) using cascade.
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>> I used several connection with pgadmin.
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>> Then I couldnt use any ppostgis function with the error "trying to set
>> postgis.backend"
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>> setting or resetting postgis.backend wouldn't do anything.
>> I add to close all and restart everything.
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>> I think this may be related to having the postgis.backend set to sfcgal
>> with some connection while having other to geos, and recompiling postgis
>> without sfcgal
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>> I don't really understand what you really did.
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>> You mention deleting tables,
>> then recompiling postgis without sfcgal.
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>> Could you on your own platform reproduce it ?
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>> BTW:  Opening a ticket is the right way to handle thing like that.
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>> O.
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