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

[mista_pink at web.de]

Hi Regina,

The ports are built upon 1.5.3.

Cheers,
Paul

Am 19.01.2015 um 11:19 schrieb Paragon Corporation:
> Paul,
>
> Which version of PostGIS did you use the 1.5.3 or 1.5.8?
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 4:50 AM
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Issues with compiling PostGIS 1.5.8 on FreeBSD
>
> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>> http://www.postgis.us
>> http://postgis.net
>>
>>
>>
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