[postgis-users] Eliminating USE_PG72
Paul Ramsey
pramsey at refractions.net
Tue Sep 3 08:37:56 PDT 2002
Greg Stark wrote:
> It seems kind of silly to me to default to only working with old versions of
> PostgreSQL, won't this be wrong for all new users?
At the time 7.2 index support was added, setting 7.2 indexes to the
default would have made the default installation broken for all the
*current* users of postgis (who were necessarily using version 7.1). You
say potato, I say potato. One way or another, someone is going to have
to read the README. :)
> It seems doubly silly since
> this is easily fixed to be automatic. This patch is only tested with a couple
> versions of PostgreSQL though:
Thanks for the patch, I have applied it in a modified form to the CVS
version. Yet another proof that "all bugs are shallow given enough eyes". :)
I am sorely tempted to move the whole 7.2-or-not switch into a macro in
the .c file and clean up the atrocious mess which is the Makefile.
Chris, we had a reason not to do this originally, but I have forgotten
what it was...
P.
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