[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Proposal: drop support for libproj < 6.1 in PostGIS 3.3.0

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Feb 11, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
> Are we still here with the plan of having as we discussed in IRC  a function
> that runs during create extension / ALTER EXTENSION
> 
> That queries the proj.db to pull entries for insert into spatial_ref_sys?
> And exposable so that a user can call it anytime to update existing entries
> / insert new entries?

You need to do some API archaeology on proj to see at what version the API is rich enough to generate full srs table data.

Meanwhile, that's not something that should be bound up with this discussion, which is really about what kind of platform support we can expect for a proj > 6 requirement.

P.