[postgis-devel] postgis extension sans raster (only for folks who can't compile with raster support) - PSC Vote and developer/packager comments please

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I would find it awkward to have two things named postgis that do and
> don't have raster.  So if raster is to be split, I would take the pain
> now and use the extension name postgis_raster or something, and let
> postgis be the non-raster version.

Regina, I'd "love" to have "postgis" become the core and
"postgis_raster" the raster part, could your idea of using versions
be also used for this ? Like, coming from postgis extension 2.2
you'd do:

 ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE TO 2.3; -- drops raster out of extension
 CREATE EXTENSION postgis_raster FROM TO postgis-2.2;

--strk;