[postgis-users] Restore data from Mac to Windows fails

[Barend K=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=bben]

Thanks Markus & David,

Markus' explanation made me understand the problem, and David's 'trick' of
just adding the .dll under a false name to the Win lib directory worked and
is a quick and easy solution.

It seems to me that the PG people could have made their backup/restore must
more platform independent by adding this trick to their system (just having
the restore look for .so versions if they cannot find the .dll version and
the other way around... Or is it something that only comes up with PostGIS,
in that case postGIS could just install both versions on any platform?


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On 11-10-2006 15:00, "TECHER David" <davidtecher at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Barrend
> 
> When I do a backup from Windows to my laptop on Linux, I'm used to do on
> my laptop before "backuping"
> 
> cp /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.1.1.so /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.dll
> 
> and it works :-)
> 
> So from Mac to Windows
> 
> on windows, i think you need to copy liblwgeom.dll to liblwgeom.1.1.so
> 
> copy c:\PostgreSQL\...\liblwgeom.dll C:\liblwgeom.1.1.so
> 
> But I don't know if it works!