[postgis-users] raster2pgsql binary in apt distros

[Regina Obe]

I think we can make it a bit easier on them and also easier on people who just want the commandline tools

 

1)      Right now you can't compile the commandlines without having postgres installed unless you hack the make scripts

2)      It has come to my attention that raster2pgsql has a dependency on libpq.  I'm not sure why it should when I thought it just emits SQL similar to shp2pgsql (which has no libpq dependency).

So this sounds like a dependency that may be accidental.

 

 

 

 

 

From: postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 2:39 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] raster2pgsql binary in apt distros

 

Something to think about for our 3.0 release.

 

Might need to be ticketed and assigned to packagers? It's not a big ask, but it's easy to forget if they just copy'n'ship the old specs.


P

 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> ] On Behalf
> Of Nils Nolde
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 5:55 AM
> To: postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org> 
> Subject: [postgis-users] raster2pgsql binary in apt distros
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had trouble accessing the raster2pgsql binary with different apt postgresql-x-
> postgis-x distros in the past. It�s not callable as executable and I can�t find it
> in the usual bin/ directories. I can only access it when installing �apt-get
> install postgis� which leaves me with a postgresql v10 distro. Not a
> dealbreaker, but a bit annoying. So my questions are:
> 
> - how can I access raster2pgsql in a postgres specific postgis version from apt,
> e.g. postgresql-9.6-postgis-2.4?
> 
> - is there a way to compile the tool independent of a postgis installation, as
> to not have a full postgres installation for just using raster2pgsql? Context:
> sometimes I only need the tool in a docker container to update an external
> database.
> 
> Or does it need compilation against specific postgis versions? I guess GDAL is a
> dependency, but the produced .sql should be rather independent of postgis
> versions right?
> 
> Of course I could write my own sql statements for raster import, but it�s sooo
> convenient:)
> 
> Many thanks
> Nils
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