[postgis-devel] ANY

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Feb 9, 2022, at 1:13 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:10:37PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
>> What is the nascent plan for ANY?
> 
> Ideally upstream would allow writing in the .control file
> the path to an upgrade script, maybe with wildcards.

What would that look like? It's quite a bit different from the upgrade scheme as originally envisioned (a magic chain of incremental files).

I'm trying to figure in my head some way to warping our current system into the incremental scheme.

At a minimum, it's worth noting that almost all of our patch-level upgrades would have a zero-byte incremental upgrade files. 

On a completely different tack, the idea of postgis--ANY--x.y.z.sql seems surprisingly reasonable. Do you remember why it was adjudged problematic when brought upstream in the past?

> The not-so-new plan is to STOP filling up disks with symlinks
> (in the best case) or copies (windows?) of the same file over
> and over again.
> 
> Note postgis.sql is under 300Kb but spatial_ref_sys.sql (in case
> we're going to include that in upgrades) is over 7Mb
> 
> --strk;
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