[postgis-users] CVS with PG 7.2?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Tue Apr 2 15:29:16 PST 2002


There is one other technical reason for supporting PgSQL 7.2 and that is
null-safe indexing. There are other non-GIS reasons PgSQL 7.2 is an
improvement over 7.1, which may have already induced people to want to
upgrade.

Per-Olof Norén wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tyler Mitchell" <TMitchell at lignum.com>
> To: <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 6:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] CVS with PG 7.2?
> 
> > Just a side question on this - what are the major advantages that people
> > see with getting postgis to PG 7.2?
> 
> I´m not a committer of postgis nor postgres, but this would be my reasons:
> 
> 1. For the postgis package  to be up-to-date with the latest stable version
> of postgreSQL is a sales pitch.
> 2. For one or more of the features/functions in the 7.2 version that isn´t
> postgis specific.
> 3. To ensure that the system is running on a actively developed version of
> the database server.
> 4. The jdbc driver has gone through massive development in the 7.2 release.
> I´m using it. :-)
> 
> regards
> Per-Olof Norén
> Stockholm, Sweden
> 
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