Migrating TIGER from Oracle to POSTGIS

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 05:44:12PM +0000, Ayorinde O Adesugba (CENSUS/DITD FED) wrote:

> I am facing a more interesting challenge. The topology_comments.sql
> needs to be updated, so that it references int8 (bigint) instead of
> integer for a few functions that need to be updated.
> 
> How do I trigger the comment rebuild.

Comments are generated from the documentation so you should get 
get an automated rebuild after editing doc/extras_topology.xml

If you don't, that'd be a bug

See also doc/README in case you want to be more specific about
what you want to build ( spoiler: make -C doc comments )

> I have been stuck on a test for over 2/3 hours cause the comment on
> the function no longer lines up with the new signature for the function.

Isn't PostGIS testsuite great ? :)

Feel free to provide an improvement to the run_test.pl script to catch
those kind of errors and suggest a solution.

--strk;