[postgis-users] Upgrade PostGIS/GEOS

Jeff Hoffmann jeff at propertykey.com
Mon Jan 12 07:54:48 PST 2004


Paul Ramsey wrote:

> - 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.

Something I've always wondered about is if there is a good reason why 
the function declarations in postgis.sql don't use "CREATE OR REPLACE 
FUNCTION" instead of a plain "CREATE FUNCTION".  That would fix the 
problem, wouldn't it?

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Jeff Hoffmann
PropertyKey.com




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