[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Get rid of upgrade paths from 2.0 - 2.3 for PostGIS 3.5+

Sandro Santilli strk at kbt.io
Tue Aug 22 09:32:48 PDT 2023


On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 05:59:35PM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 12:23:02AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> > > Anyone who has an opinion on this matter, feel free to chime in.
> > > Every time I package it annoys me I have to ship 100s of useless files.
> > 
> > Here's my solution:
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5092#comment:6
> > 
> > That solution will drop the file count to 1 * (number of extensions)
> 
> But that's only going to work for PG17+ assuming we can convince Tom it's an
> okay idea.

What I meant was for --without-upgrade-scripts install to become the
default.

> I want the old files (2.1-2.3 gone) even for PostgreSQL < 17. I doubt anyone
> needs them and if they do
> Then they can use the new postgis install-extension-upgrades command.

Fine by me to trim that list down, but note the presence of those
scripts is what determines which upgrades are tested by ci, via
utils/check_all_upgrades.sh

--strk;


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