PostGIS 3.6.0rc2 Released

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Mon Aug 25 18:36:01 PDT 2025


"Regina Obe" <lr at pcorp.us> writes:

>> 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.

I don't follow "except".

>> I did
>> 
>>   postgis install-extension-upgrades 3.6.0rc1
>> 
>> (thanks strk for previous hints) and then upgrade worked.
>> 
>
> 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?

I am guessing I did not.   Looking at my system after I upgraded using
the 3.6.0rc2 package I just built, and then ran the
install-extension-upgrades:

  > ls -l postgis--3.6*
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       31 Aug 25 20:49 postgis--3.6.0alpha1--ANY.sql -> postgis--TEMPLATED--TO--ANY.sql
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       31 Aug 25 20:49 postgis--3.6.0beta1--ANY.sql -> postgis--TEMPLATED--TO--ANY.sql
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       31 Aug 25 20:49 postgis--3.6.0dev--ANY.sql -> postgis--TEMPLATED--TO--ANY.sql
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       31 Aug 25 20:51 postgis--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql -> postgis--TEMPLATED--TO--ANY.sql
  lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       31 Aug 25 20:49 postgis--3.6.0rc2--ANY.sql -> postgis--TEMPLATED--TO--ANY.sql
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7476532 Aug 25 20:49 postgis--3.6.0rc2.sql

but it looks like the rc1 package has it

  > pkg_info -L postgresql16-postgis-3.6.0rc1.tgz |egrep rc1
  Information for postgresql16-postgis-3.6.0rc1.tgz:
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer--1.0--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer--ANY--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer_data_us--3.6.0rc1--3.6.0rc1next.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer_data_us--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer_data_us--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer_data_us--3.6.0rc1next--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/address_standardizer_data_us--ANY--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis--ANY--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis--unpackaged--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_raster--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_raster--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_raster--ANY--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_raster--unpackaged--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder--ANY--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder--unpackaged--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_topology--3.6.0rc1--ANY.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_topology--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_topology--ANY--3.6.0rc1.sql
  /usr/pkg/share/postgresql/extension/postgis_topology--unpackaged--3.6.0rc1.sql


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