PostGIS 3.6.0rc2 Released

Regina Obe lr at pcorp.us
Mon Aug 25 18:21:49 PDT 2025


> Am I supposed to be able to upgrade from rc1, without having to do
anything?
> 

Yes.  Well anything except

SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

As I kept 3.6.0rc1 as an upgrade source option.


>   # psql -U pgsql -d gdt -c 'SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();'
>   NOTICE:  Updating extension postgis 3.6.0rc1
>   ERROR:  extension "postgis" has no update path from version "3.6.0rc1"
to
> version "ANY"
>   CONTEXT:  SQL statement "ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE TO
> "ANY";ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE TO "3.6.0rc2""
>   PL/pgSQL function postgis_extensions_upgrade(text) line 88 at EXECUTE
> 
> I did
> 
>   postgis install-extension-upgrades 3.6.0rc1
> 
> (thanks strk for previous hints) and then upgrade worked.
> 
> With my workaround for running tests as root that's authorized for pgsql,
tests
> pass on NetBSD 10 amd64.
> 
> Thus, seems fine to me if this were the release.

So the above steps should have been unnecessary.

I presume you didn't have file

postgis--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql


prior to your make install right?





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