[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Drop the minor in the postgis lib files

[Regina Obe]

> When you say "they need to upgrade" you mean the package manager
> forces that upgrade ? Because you mention there's a _single_ version of
> PostgreSQL supported, so I'm wondering if users can have two ONLY during
> an upgrade.
> 
[Regina Obe] 
Even if the packagers offered multiple versions, upgrading PostGIS is a serious pain.

Think about it.  You go from 9.3 2.3  to 11 postgresql 2.5

And you were running 2.3 on 9.3, that means you have to 

a) Upgrade your 9.3 to 2.5, which means you need to install  both 2.3 and 2.5 installed on 9.3

or

b) pg_upgarde to 9.3 and then upgrade your 2.3 to 2.5 which means you have to have 2.3 and 2.5 installed on your PostgreSQL 11

or 

c) Symlink and hope the PostGIS maintainers had the good sense not to remove any functions backing the functions.


None of the above is as pleasant as just

Install the new version of PostgreSQL with the newest PostGIS for that PostgreSQL and just pg_upgrade.

Anyway I'm tired of arguing this.  I'm going to take your lack of vote as a +1 and move forward with this.


Thanks,
Regina