[postgis-users] Upgrade using postgis_restore.pl

[Armin Burger]

Hi all

I needed to upgrade PostGIS together with Postgres, the versions were:

Postgres: 8.3 -> 9.0
PostGIS: 1.3 -> 1.5

I followed the description in the Postgis docs for the "hard upgrade" 
using "postgis_restore.pl". It worked but I got a few error messages 
sent to stderr, like

ERROR:  function st_histogram2d_in(cstring) does not exist
ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/liblwgeom": No such file or directory
ERROR:  function public.asukml(geometry) does not exist
ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/liblwgeom": No such file or directory
...

These seem to correspond to messages with "KEEPING" written to the 
restore log , like

KEEPING TYPE [histogram2d]
KEEPING TYPE [histogram2d]
KEEPING FUNCTION: [askml(geometry, integer, integer)]
KEEPING FUNCTION: [asukml(geometry)]


The database seems to work fine after the restore, and so far I have not 
found any problems. Can I silently ignore those errors (the docs don't 
say anything how I should handle the "KEEPING..." messages). To me the 
functions causing errors and KEEPING messages look like they're not 
included any more in Postgis 1.5 (the KEEPING messages are written out 
also for custom procedures).

Thanks in advance for any clarifications

Armin