[postgis-users] Issues with compiling PostGIS 1.5.8 on FreeBSD

[mista_pink at web.de]

Dear Regina,

I "fixed" this by setting up an VM with old FreeBSD and compiled PostGIS 
there. I copied the library to the updated system and the backup worked.

Cheers,
Paul

Am 19.01.2015 um 03:52 schrieb Paragon Corporation:
> Paul,
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>> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  Unknown geometry type:
> -1099038720 - Unknown
> Sadly doesn't work if you don't have a working database which it sounds like
> you've got 1.5 data with 2.1 binaries. Kindof a mess.
>
>> So my best idea was to pull 1.5.3 (most recent used by ports) and 1.5.8
> (most recent available from source),
>> go through the files from
> http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_9_2_0/databases/postgis/ and try
> to find the needed flags etc.
>
> Well if we assume 1.5.3 worked and that is the last FreeBSD used, I would
> compile with 1.5.3.  All the older source tarballs  are here
>
> http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/
>
> In case you didn't know.
>
> It's just as easy to hard upgrade from 1.5.3 as it is from 1.5.8 so no real
> benefit using 1.5.8 if you plan to migrate to 2.1 anyway.
>
> It's quite possible we broke 1.5.8 on FreeBSD and given few people are using
> 1.5 and none of the PostGIS dev team has a dev box running FreeBSD, we would
> have missed the break unless FreeBSD package maintainers complained (which
> they did when we broke 2.1 on FreeBSD :) ).
>
>
> Hope that helps,
> Regina
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