[postgis-devel] Raster/Vector Split @ PostgresOpen

[Regina Obe]

Strk,
So that's a +2.5

I still need to fix Winnie and Debbie, but I won't feel bad if you don't wait for me to fix.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 1:52 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [postgis-devel] Raster/Vector Split @ PostgresOpen
> 
> Since I was at PostgresOpen last week, I took the opportunity to socialize the
> raster/vector split with the major PaaS vendors.
> 
> I told them
> - raster / vector split was probably coming
> - the upgrade script would be concomitantly more complex
> - we want to ensure they do a lot of testing of the split before release
> 
> The reactions were all positive, both in terms of committing to do pre-
> release testing (we�ll see) and in terms of approving of the split in general. At
> least one vendor was ecstatically happy that it would be possible to have
> GDAL-free builds of PostGIS. None of them considered the raster
> functionality of PostGIS to be something that was widely in use, so the
> number of folks expected to even be in a position to be affected by this is
> theoretically quite small.
> 
> We should do some testing on our own part during the sprint, try to figure
> out various awful cases that might break the upgrade process.
> 
> ATB,
> P
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