[postgis-devel] Upgrade PostGIS from 2.5.4 to 3.1.2

[Nikhil Shetty]

Hi Team,

I am looking for a way to upgrade postgis on postgresql 11 from 2.5.4 to
3.1.2
I am getting below error when doing though yum

Transaction check error:
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/address_standardizer.control from
> install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from
> package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/address_standardizer.sql from install
> of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/address_standardizer_data_us.control
> from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from
> package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis.control from install of
> postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis_sfcgal.control from install
> of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder.control from
> install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from
> package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis_topology.control from install
> of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/bin/pgsql2shp from install of
> postgis31_11-client-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-client-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/bin/raster2pgsql from install of
> postgis31_11-client-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-client-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64
>   file /usr/pgsql-11/bin/shp2pgsql from install of
> postgis31_11-client-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> postgis25_11-client-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64


I have seen the document for 'Hard Upgrade' but that is unfortunately a
long route to take for critical databases.

Postgresql Version - 11.7
OS - RHEL 7.9

Full Version Details -
PostgreSQL 11.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5
20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39), 64-bit POSTGIS="2.5.4" [EXTENSION] PGSQL="110"
GEOS="3.8.1-CAPI-1.13.3" PROJ="Rel. 7.0.0, March 1st, 2020" GDA

L="GDAL 3.0.4, released 2020/01/28" LIBXML="2.9.1" LIBJSON="0.11"
LIBPROTOBUF="1.0.2" RASTER
Thanks and Regards,
Nikhil
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