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From: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Ramsey <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: postgis for beta releases
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 11:37:37 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

I'm suggesting to be build postgis31 for pg14.
It might be reasonable to wait for beta2, though.

Copying last year's correspondence for pg13.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 03:04:30PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Would you consider building packages during beta ?
> 
> This would allow us to do testing more easily, and I'm guessing that's true for
> other people too, which leads to wider field testing.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:46:20AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 05:09:12PM +0100, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> > 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 :(
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Justin

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 01:16:39PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> 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.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 04:56:06PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:14:43AM +0100, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 13:16 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > As I mentioned, I think postgis30 should *also* be built for v13, and
> > > postgis31 should *maybe* be built for v12:
> > 
> > Pushing them to v11 and v12 *testing* repos in an hour or so.
> 
> Note, I still suggest that postgis30 and postgis31 should *both* be built for
> postgres13 and (at least) postgres12.
> 
> I've done a couple test upgrades from pg12 to 13, some using pg_dump/restore,
> some using pg_upgrade.  In both cases, I first had to do:
> 
> |DROP AGGREGATE st_union(geometry);
> |DROP FUNCTION pgis_geometry_union_transfn;
> 
> I guess postgis30 and 31 are "compatible enough" that I was able to restore a
> postgis30 DB into a DB with only postgis31 available.
> 
> Normally, I'd have to do a "rolling upgrade", either:
> (pg12+gis30) => (pg12+gis31) => (pg13+gis31), or:
> (pg12+gis30) => (pg13+gis30) => (pg13+gis31).
> 
> I guess this is related to postgis commit 75a044c61:
> 
> |Author: Paul Ramsey <[email protected]>
> |Date:   Fri Oct 4 18:25:46 2019 +0000
> |    Restore ST_Union() aggregate signature and re-work...





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