[postgis-users] uncaught obsolete functions.

[Pritesh Shah]

Thanks strk for fixing the postgis_restore.pl. Below is the list,
which according to me are, uncaught obsoleted functions, and need to
be stripped out when upgrading to new postgis:

optimistic_overlap
geometry_from_text
geometry_from_text_poly
geometry_from_text_mpoly
geometry_from_text_line
geometry_from_text_mline
geometry_from_text_point
geometry_from_text_mpoint
geometry_from_text_gc

i'm still working on postgis_restoring more databases and i'll add to the list.

Cheers,
Pritesh.


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:26:40 +0100, strk at refractions.net
<strk at refractions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 06:16:36PM -0700, Pritesh Shah wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I would like to thank everybody for their responses to my question. I
> > tried a couple of things and the best thing for me was to use
> > utils/postgis_restore.pl script.
> >
> > I ran this script on some sample databases and they all seemed to
> > work, but partially, as there are still some errors.
> >
> > These errors are because some postgis content is not being stripped
> > out while writing into the $dump.list file. A sample of where it fails
> > is:
> >
> > ....
> > ....
> > ....
> > CREATE FUNCTION wkb_recv(internal) RETURNS wkb
> >    AS '$libdir/libpostgis.so.0.8', 'WKB_recv'
> >    LANGUAGE c STRICT;
> > ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/libpostgis.so.0.8": No such file or direc
> > tory
> > ALTER FUNCTION public.wkb_recv(internal) OWNER TO brook;
> > ERROR:  function public.wkb_recv(internal) does not exist
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> >
> > This line should be stripped out as in the new postgis (1.0.0) there
> > is nothing called "WKB_recv" which existed in the older version
> > (0.8.2)
> >
> > There are many such cases where the postgis_restore.pl script fails in
> > removing the postgis stuff. I'm currently working on getting this
> > fixed.
> 
> I've added wkb_recv and wkb_send in the list of obsoleted functions
> handled by postgis_restore.pl. Could you try current (CVS) version ?
> Would you send a list of other uncought obsoleted functions ?
> 
> Be aware (if you're going to patch postgis_restore.pl yourself) that
> some failures are due to different output from different versions
> of pg_restore.
> 
> Note finally that the errors you're getting won't hurt unless the
> restore call is interrupted by the error (ie. transactional).
> 
> --strk;
> 
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pritesh
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:09:11AM -0700, Pritesh Shah wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to backup a server and restore it on a different machine
> > > with newer versions of postgresql and postgis. Dumps have been created
> > > for the following versions from the old database server:
> > >
> > > Postgresql  7.4.6
> > > Postgis       0.8.2
> > >
> > > Now since both the packages have released newer versions i've
> > > installed the following on my newer machine where i would like to
> > > restore the dumped databases.
> > >
> > > Postgresql  8.0.1 and
> > > Postgis       1.0.0
> > >
> > > For restoring the information i'm using
> > >
> > > psql -e -f abc.sql template1
> > >
> > > While restoring the dumps i've collected the following information
> > > where the problem occurs:
> > >
> > > ..
> > > ..
> > > ..
> > > CREATE FUNCTION histogram2d_in(cstring) RETURNS histogram2d
> > >     AS '$libdir/libpostgis.so.0.8', 'histogram2d_in'
> > >     LANGUAGE c STRICT;
> > > psql:abc.sql:3947: ERROR:  could not access file
> > > "$libdir/libpostgis.so.0.8": No such file or directory
> > > ..
> > > ..
> > > ..
> > >
> > > I understand that this is due to the following:
> > >
> > > libpostgis.so.8.0 is now liblwgeom.so.1.0 and also
> > >
> > > histogram2d_in  is now  lwhistogram2d_in
> > > histogram2d_out is now lwhistogram2d_out and so on.
> > >
> > > Now my problem is there are a lot of databases that use the postgis
> > > stuff (like the histogram2d_in) which has changed from the older
> > > version to the newer version. What do i do to overcome this problem??
> > > Can somebody help me out with this??
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Pritesh
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