[postgis-devel] Pg13 upgrade issues?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 06:39:24PM +0200, rmrodriguez at carto.com wrote:
> I've been wondering about this and thought about another solution that I
> think is simpler: We could have postgis (core) drop any types and functions
> owned by it that now belong to postgis_raster.
> 
> The main benefit would be that it will work no matter the PG release or the
> source Postgis release. The drawbacks: any dependency on raster (views and
> so on) will need to be dropped in this process (only once) and that you
> need to install postgis_raster if you use raster (beforehand the functions
> were already there).

And actual data ! Sounds very drastic, why would this be simpler than
packaging on 'CREATE EXTENSION' ?

--strk;