[postgis-devel] ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPGRADE to '2.1.1'

[Paul Ramsey]

In the dirty hack category, creating a symlinked postgis-2.0.so from
postgis-2.1.so should work. Also filtering the extension upgrade
script to lack this postgis_major_version_check function would work.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Markus Wanner <markus at bluegap.ch> wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 10:29 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> This has been failing for people using packages to manage their
>> postgis, because upgrading their postgis2 package is removing the old
>> postgis-2.0.so and installing a postgis-2.1.so file.
>
> Minor correction here: that's for people using RPM packages.
>
> On Debian, the situation is different, but also broken. More obviously,
> though: postgis-2.1 will simply fail to install if there already is a
> postgis-2.0 package installed.
>
> We're currently thinking about how to solve this issue. I'd really like
> to not break postgis-2.0 installations on upgrades, though...
>
> Regards
>
> Markus Wanner
>