[postgis-users] hard upgrade from 1.5

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 05:45:16PM +0000, Nathan Wagner wrote:

> Could this have been done via 'create extension postgis from unpackaged'?
> I think that doesn't work for an in-place upgrade because it can't
> handle converting the internal representation.

You are right: "create extension from unpackaged" is still a form of
"soft upgrade" so only works when "soft upgrade" is possible
(ie: when data doesn't need to be dumped *before* the upgrade).

--strk;