[postgis-users] Problems installing on Linux

[BladeOfLight16]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:54 AM, James David Smith <
james.david.smith at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be honest Brian I'm not quite sure what legacy.sql did. It is
> listed here though, and it's not something I'd noticed before so
> thought it was worth a go!
>
> http://postgis.net/docs/manual-dev/postgis_installation.html#create_new_db
>

legacy.sql adds back old, deprecated functions that were removed. See
http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/PostGIS_FAQ.html#legacy_faq. For
example, I had to get GeomFromWKB and SetSRID, which have now become
ST_GeomFromWKB
and ST_SetSRID, for a third party library.
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