[postgis-tickets] r16494 - note in docs about soft upgrade that legacy.sql must be rerun for each minor.
Regina Obe
lr at pcorp.us
Fri Mar 23 07:12:46 PDT 2018
Author: robe
Date: 2018-03-23 19:12:46 -0700 (Fri, 23 Mar 2018)
New Revision: 16494
Modified:
trunk/doc/installation.xml
Log:
note in docs about soft upgrade that legacy.sql must be rerun for each minor.
References #2960 for PostGIS 2.5.0 (trunk)
Modified: trunk/doc/installation.xml
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--- trunk/doc/installation.xml 2018-03-24 00:03:15 UTC (rev 16493)
+++ trunk/doc/installation.xml 2018-03-24 02:12:46 UTC (rev 16494)
@@ -1400,7 +1400,9 @@
<para>If you plan to restore an old backup from prior versions in this new db, run:</para>
<para><command>psql -d [yourdatabase] -f legacy.sql</command></para>
-
+ <note><para>If you need legacy functions, you'll need to reinstall the legacy.sql script whenever you upgrade the minor version of PostGIS.
+ E.g. if you upgraded from 2.4.3 to 2.5.0, then you need to reinstall the legacy.sql packaged with 2.5.0. This is because some of the functions make reference to the library
+ and the library is named with the minor in it.</para></note>
<para>You can later run <filename>uninstall_legacy.sql</filename> to get rid of the deprecated functions after you are done with restoring and cleanup.</para>
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