[postgis-users] Is 2.1.8 stable?

[Sandro Santilli]

Paul, that ticket is supposedly fixed in the 2.1 branch:
https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2543

Kiriakos, the 2.1 branch is the current stable line,
if you have a way to reproduce that crash it'll be very useful
to fix it for 2.1.9 .

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:52:01AM -0400, Paul J. Caritj wrote:
> My 2 cents.:
> 
> My recent [bad] experience with a Postgis bug, described in my email to
> this list last week, was on 2.1.8 (but running on Windows 7, not Solaris).
> Fortunately for me, I was just using it to do a little GIS hacking on my
> desktop. But after my experiences of the last few weeks, it would take a
> lot of convincing to get me to use Postgis 2.1.8 in a production
> environment. (Although, supposedly, the bug I encountered was also present
> in 2.1.2, so YMMV.)
> 
> -Paul
> 
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Kiriakos Georgiou <zebekias at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > We recently upgraded from 32bit PostgreSQL 9.3.4 + PostGIS 2.1.2 to 64bit
> > PostgreSQL 9.4.4 + PostGIS 2.1.8. All the required packages for PostGIS
> > were upgraded to their latest versions. This is on Solaris 10 with the gcc
> > that ships by sun (v3.x)
> >
> > All went well, except when we did regression testing we noticed  a complex
> > spatial query that goes from geometry to geography and back (with SRID
> > changes along the way) was crashing PostgreSQL. We broke down that code to
> > simpler pieces and it worked, but later we found other code that worked
> > before that would crash the database backend process too.
> >
> > Unfortunately our application is complex to the point that we haven't been
> > able to distill the query down to something simple that I can open a ticket
> > with. All I have are core dumps and my hunch that downgrading PostGIS might
> > give some clues (if things go back to being stable.)
> >
> > Any experiences with 2.1.8 with regards to stability that you can share?
> > We haven't tested 2.1.5, I'll update on how that goes.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kiriakos