[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Get rid of upgrade paths from 2.0 - 2.3 for PostGIS 3.5+

Regina Obe lr at pcorp.us
Sun Aug 13 14:59:35 PDT 2023


> On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 12:23:02AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> > Anyone who has an opinion on this matter, feel free to chime in.
> > Every time I package it annoys me I have to ship 100s of useless files.
> 
> Here's my solution:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5092#comment:6
> 
> That solution will drop the file count to 1 * (number of extensions)
> 
> --strk;
> 
>   Libre GIS consultant/developer
>   https://strk.kbt.io/services.html

But that's only going to work for PG17+ assuming we can convince Tom it's an
okay idea.
I want the old files (2.1-2.3 gone) even for PostgreSQL < 17. I doubt anyone
needs them and if they do
Then they can use the new postgis install-extension-upgrades command.



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