[postgis-users] Anybody know anything about the Debian packages?

[Paul Tomblin]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> I thought I might try the documented "hard upgrade" procedure to see if 
> it will do what is in essence a downgrade.  But neither the "postgis" 
> nor the "postgresql-8.1-postgis" Debian packages seems to have installed 
> the documented utils/postgis_restore.pl program.  Does anybody here know 
> if it's in a different package, or can I just pull it from subversion?

Never mind.  I discovered that "pg_dump -c" with multiple "-t" options naming 
all my tables works, providing that I'd pre-created all the tables with 
geometries so that the appropriate entries are in the geometry_columns table.


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Of course, I also got weird looks when I said that, as a kid, I watched the
toast brown in a toaster to see whether it browned at a linear or exponential
rate.  -- Jeff Davis