Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:16:39 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Devrim =?iso-8859-1?B?R/xuZPx6?= <devrim@gunduz.org>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-yum@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: postgis for beta releases
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 05:09:12PM +0100, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 15:04 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Would you consider building packages during beta ?
> 
> You mean PostGIS 3.1? I thought I pushed it already :(
> 
> Built packages now. They will sync soon  to v13 testing repos. Would
> you like me to build against v12 as well?

Thanks - I see that postgis31 is available for postgres13.

As I mentioned, I think postgis30 should *also* be built for v13, and postgis31
should *maybe* be built for v12:

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:46:20AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I think the postgis that exists for the stable release(12) should also be built
> for the beta release(13).  That allows test upgrades by 1) installing same
> postgis for new postgres; and 2) pg_upgrade.
> 
> Whether to build a new version of postgis is a separate question, but if you
> do, I'd suggest to build for both versions of postgres when possible.  That
> allows choice of which to upgrade first.
> 
> During beta period in previous years, postgis has been the one important thing
> missing.  That requires us to drop our postgis columns for beta testing.  Last
> year for the first time, I instead built postgis locally on a couple servers.
> 
> I think most packages aren't built for beta, which is no problem (although I
> think they sometimes needed to be added after the fact).  These are on our
> list: pg_repack, fincore, libpqxx-devel.