[postgis-users] Upgrade PostGIS/GEOS

[Paul Ramsey]

Generally speaking, for small upgrades, yes.
Two things happen when you do an in-place upgrade of the code:
- If there has been a change in the on disk structure, nothing will 
work. However, there has not been a structure change for quite a long 
time (The 0.6 to 0.7 upgrade was the last one, if I recall correctly.)
- You will not have access to any new functions unless you carefully 
add the new functions from the SQL file. You will have access to bug 
fixes in existing C functions, but not in the PL/PgSQL functions 
(because those are in the SQL file). A careful hand drop / load of the 
new SQL functions could be done with a little detail work.
P.

On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 05:11 AM, Düster Horst wrote:

> I'm working with GEOS Version 20031209 and I want to update PostGIS 
> with the
> newst GEOS Version from CVS. I don't want to Upgrade the whole 
> database due
> to the many sequences, views, tables etc. residing in this database.
>
> Is it possible to recompile/install PostGIS (the running Version)/GEOS 
> (CVS)
> without a dump of the whole database?
>
> Regards
> Horst
>
>
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