[postgis-devel] 3.0.1 issues report

[Paul Ramsey]

Give the popularity of generating tiles out of PostGIS currently, lacking protobuf, and thus MVT support would be a serious deficiency in a generally-available package. 

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> On Jun 26, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> I guess my request is unreasonable, but I'd like someone who is building
> binaries for others to be able to tell if they should
> 
>  1) impose the protobuf dependency on everyone, letting those two
>  functions work, or
> 
>  2) omit protobuf, have those functions not work, and have everybody
>  not have the dependency
> 
> which is really a question of whether being handed a binary postgis
> install that is missing protobuf is 1) normal or 2) defective.  I'm
> trying to separate "SHOULD have this dependency (but we can build
> without it)" from "this is weird and if you want to do this, add it".