[postgis-users] postgis.backend and legacy functions

[Willy-Bas Loos]

ah
reading into this: https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2382
hints me that this "GUC" thing remembers the postgis version somehow. This
especially has something to do with DDL.
So my loading legacy 2.2 set the GUC to postgis-2.2, solving the problem
for most functions.

This isn't very reassuring though.
I'll look further into it and let you know.

Cheers,

WBL

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I ran into a very strange problem today. It is especially strange to me
> because it was (temporarily) solved and i don't understand why.
>
> The problem:
> A dump from a (pg 9.4) database with postgis-2.1 and legacy.sql was
> restored on a server that has bot postgis-2.1 and postgis-2.2 installed.
> Because pg_dump uses only CRATE EXTENSION, the new database now has
> postgis-2.2 but with the legacy functions from postgis-2.1
>
> Now, i get an error when calling some functions. Other functions do work.
> 2016-02-24 10:28:52 CET [17136-10] postgres at telmee_oz ERROR:  attempt to
> redefine parameter "postgis.backend"
> 2016-02-24 10:28:52 CET [17136-11] postgres at telmee_oz STATEMENT:  select
> ST_area(survey.locations.the_geom) as opp
>         FROM survey.locations LIMIT 1;
>
> I didn't try out all the functions, because i was looking for a more
> general pattern.
> Anyway i know:
> working:
> * area
> not working:
> * st_area
> * st_xmin
> * x_min
>
> When i found that all the functions that use the postgis-1.2 binairies
> belong to legacy, i tried to install the legacy.sql form postgis-2.2 in the
> new database.
> This resulted in a lot of 'attempt to redefine parameter
> "postgis.backend"' -errors (and some newly installed functions), but after
> this, the problem was gone.
>
> This doesn't make sense to me at all. And, the database will be
> overwritten with a fresh copy this weekend, which will probably recreate
> the problem.
> Can anyone here help me find out what is(or was) happening?
>
> --
> Willy-Bas Loos
>



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Willy-Bas Loos
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