[postgis-users] How to update your SVN copy of PostGIS

Aren Cambre aren at arencambre.com
Sat Dec 10 15:15:36 PST 2011


Thanks.

Now here's what I don't get: where are the *geocode* and *
geocode_intersection* functions? If I look at the functions list in *
spatial_db_template*'s *public* schema (using pgAdmin III), should I see
those two? I thought they were included in the base PostGIS 2.0 product?

Aren

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> wrote:

> You can ignore all the notices. As long as you do not get a rollback, then
> things should be ok.
>
> The script is just trying to clean out potential obsolete functions that
> might be there if the database was created many versions ago and upgraded
> to this point.
>
> -Steve W
>
>
> On 12/10/2011 5:46 PM, Aren Cambre wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Yup, I see it now. My mind was stuck in 3rd generation languages
>> where things stop when you get an exception.
>>
>> The script's first gripe was that the *spatial_ref_sys* table already
>>
>> exists. Shouldn't it automatically kill and reload that table? Is that a
>> bug?
>>
>> Anyway, I deleted it and reran the script. Now I get a bunch of notices
>> about functions that don't exist. See attachment.
>>
>> It appears it's mostly not finding overloads of functions. E.g., it says
>> *populate_geometry_columns()* and *populate_geometry_columns(**oid)* are
>>
>> missing. I do have variants with different function signatures:
>> *populate_geometry_columns(**oid,boolean)* and
>> *populate_geometry_columns(**boolean)*.
>>
>>
>> BTW, I'm trying to run this on my template PostGIS DB, which I named
>> *spatial_db_template*.
>>
>>
>> Aren
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Bborie Park <bkpark at ucdavis.edu
>> <mailto:bkpark at ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    Oops!  My head is always in the raster world, so I just ran with the
>>    raster upgrade.  Sorry about that.
>>
>>    If you're getting an error, you'll want to scroll up past the
>>    transaction error message as the very first error message should be
>>    related to the actual statement that is failing.
>>
>>    -bborie
>>
>>    On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Aren Cambre <aren at arencambre.com
>>    <mailto:aren at arencambre.com>> wrote:
>>     > Thanks. Yesterday I
>>     >
>>    found postgis_upgrade_20_minor.sql in /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/**
>> contrib/postgis-2.0.
>>     >
>>     > When I ran that, I got tons of errors like this:
>>     >
>>    psql:/usr/share/postgresql/9.**1/contrib/postgis-2.0/postgis_**
>> upgrade_20_minor.sql:3235:
>>     > ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end
>> of
>>     > transaction block
>>     >
>>     > I see you mentioned rtpostgis_upgrade_20_minor.**sql. Isn't that
>>    just for
>>     > raster functions? I searched my machine and cannot find it, anyway.
>>     >
>>     > Aren
>>     >
>>     > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Bborie Park <bkpark at ucdavis.edu
>>    <mailto:bkpark at ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> Aren,
>>     >>
>>     >> Since you're tracking trunk, after you've done the configure,
>>    make and
>>     >> make install, you'll want to run the upgrade script
>>     >>
>>     >> rtpostgis_upgrade_20_minor.sql
>>     >>
>>     >> Usually, the file is installed in the same place as
>>    rtpostgis.sql.  If
>>     >> you can't find the upgrade file, you can find it in your checkout's
>>     >> directory at:
>>     >>
>>     >> raster/rt_pg
>>     >>
>>     >> -bborie
>>     >>
>>     >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Aren Cambre <aren at arencambre.com
>>    <mailto:aren at arencambre.com>> wrote:
>>     >> > Thanks. I got the latest SVN snapshot. I was able to
>>    configure, make,
>>     >> > and
>>     >> > make install. The problem is there seems to be missing steps
>>    between
>>     >> > building the whole thing and getting changes into my preexisting
>>     >> > PostGIS-enabled database.
>>     >> >
>>     >> > Aren
>>     >> >
>>     >> >
>>     >> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Bborie Park
>>    <bkpark at ucdavis.edu <mailto:bkpark at ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> If you used something like...
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> svn check out https://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/**trunk<https://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk>
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> You can safely run...
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> svn update
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> If that works, I'd recommend doing...
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> svn cleanup
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> -bborie
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Aren Cambre
>>    <aren at arencambre.com <mailto:aren at arencambre.com>>
>>
>>     >> >> wrote:
>>     >> >> > I admit this is a dumb question, but here it is.
>>     >> >> >
>>     >> >> > I installed PostGIS on my Ubuntu 11.10 environment a few
>>    weeks ago
>>     >> >> > using
>>     >> >> > the
>>     >> >> > excellent instructions
>>     >> >> > at
>>    http://www.letseehere.com/**postgis-geocoder-using-tiger-**2010-data<http://www.letseehere.com/postgis-geocoder-using-tiger-2010-data>
>> .
>>     >> >> >
>>     >> >> > Since then, the geocode_intersection function was added,
>>    and I need
>>     >> >> > it.
>>     >> >> > I'm
>>     >> >> > not clear what is the process of replacing the older
>>    snapshot of
>>     >> >> > PostGIS
>>     >> >> > with this newer one.
>>     >> >> >
>>     >> >> > I don't see an obvious install/uninstall routine. I tried
>>    the soft
>>     >> >> > upgrade
>>     >> >> >
>>     >> >> >
>>     >> >> > at
>>    http://postgis.refractions.**net/documentation/manual-svn/**
>> postgis_installation.html#**upgrading<http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/postgis_installation.html#upgrading>
>> ,
>>     >> >> > but that didn't work. Do I need to do the hard upgrade each
>>    time I do
>>     >> >> > a
>>     >> >> > SVN
>>     >> >> > update?
>>     >> >> >
>>     >> >> > Aren
>>     >> >> >
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