[postgis-users] raster2pgsql binary in apt distros

[Michał Garnysz]

I noticed many of things you described and im i doubt there is any clean
way to get it working. It looked like simple task get tar ball of postgres
& postgis and make it work. (was even able to configure and make postgis
but was installation dependant)
I made it run instance just overloading some param -L while executing
initdb - on extracted binaries on clean ubuntu - not 100% all was working
fine but where able to add extension and populate data.

It's sad that you can apt-get all of this in like 5steps, but there is no
way to make it work form one binary (not installed) folder - there are
ready to use docker container db with spatial but it's another dependency
to project (and just for tests it's an overkill)
Or maybe someone prove me wrong, anyone - please :)

czw., 15 lis 2018 o 20:54 Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> napisał(a):

> I think we can make it a bit easier on them and also easier on people who
> just want the commandline tools
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> 1)      Right now you can't compile the commandlines without having
> postgres installed unless you hack the make scripts
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> 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).
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> So this sounds like a dependency that may be accidental.
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> *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
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> Something to think about for our 3.0 release.
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> 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.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: postgis-users [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
> > Subject: [postgis-users] raster2pgsql binary in apt distros
> >
> > Hi,
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> > 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:
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> > - how can I access raster2pgsql in a postgres specific postgis version
> from apt,
> > e.g. postgresql-9.6-postgis-2.4?
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> > - 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.
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> > 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?
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> > Of course I could write my own sql statements for raster import, but it�s
> sooo
> > convenient:)
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> > Many thanks
> > Nils
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