[postgis-users] Quick Note for XP Home Users and Win32PostgreSQL8.0 beta 1 installer

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of Paul Hastings
> Sent: 06 October 2004 12:22
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Quick Note for XP Home Users and 
> Win32PostgreSQL8.0 beta 1 installer
> 
> 
> > > http://www.webbased.co.uk/mca/postgresql-8.0-beta1-postgis.msi

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> btw while it's nice to have a single installer bundle, it's 
> also pretty convenient to have a seperate postGIS installer.
> 
> thanks.


Hi Paul,

The reason that the installer was done as a single bundle is because it was
believed necessary to compile PostgreSQL with non-standard flags to prevent
exceptions in GEOS from crashing the backend. The version of the installer
above has this modification - with the separate installer, you must use the
binary distribution which has been compiled with standard flags.

I think when Dave (Blasby) looked into this to begin with it was a bug in
glibc.... Does anyone know whether this has been fixed in the version of gcc
supplied with MingW? If someone could post to the list an SQL command that
throws a GEOS exception then it would be good for someone to test this....
(my build environment was lost when my workstation died, so I need time to
rebuilt it :( ).


Kind regards,

Mark.

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