[Geoserver-users] PostgreSQL 7.4.5 and PostGIS 1.1.4 with GeoServer

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Hi,
do we have to expect any trouble with a combination of PostgreSQL 7.4.5, PostGIS 1.1.4 and GeoServer on a SuSE SLES 9 box? All references seem to point to PostgreSQL 8, so I'd rather ask.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards, Arnulf.

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Arnulf Christl ha scritto:

Hi, do we have to expect any trouble with a combination of PostgreSQL
7.4.5, PostGIS 1.1.4 and GeoServer on a SuSE SLES 9 box? All
references seem to point to PostgreSQL 8, so I'd rather ask.

I guess you'll have to try out... afaik all of us are running against
8.1.x, and well, 7.4 series is a bit old now, I don't remember having it
installed anywhere...
Let us know how it fares.

Cheers
Andrea

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Andrea Aime wrote:

Arnulf Christl ha scritto:

Hi, do we have to expect any trouble with a combination of PostgreSQL
7.4.5, PostGIS 1.1.4 and GeoServer on a SuSE SLES 9 box? All
references seem to point to PostgreSQL 8, so I'd rather ask.

I guess you'll have to try out... afaik all of us are running against
8.1.x, and well, 7.4 series is a bit old now, I don't remember having it
installed anywhere...
Let us know how it fares.

Cheers
Andrea

Hi,
thanks for the information. We will try out and report.

Many larger clients have a rather slower version update interval. In this case we are just one out of a good dozen applications using the spatial data. It is not possible to upgrade easily because the dirty half of that dozen applications would probably break... We frequently need to use whats there and in many cases that is not the most current version. I know this is a pain for developers but it would be helpful to keep a record or test place for this kind of issue. Anyway, probably thats our job then... :slight_smile:

Best regards, Arnulf.

4

Arnulf Christl ha scritto:

Hi, thanks for the information. We will try out and report.

Many larger clients have a rather slower version update interval. In
this case we are just one out of a good dozen applications using the
spatial data. It is not possible to upgrade easily because the dirty
half of that dozen applications would probably break... We frequently
need to use whats there and in many cases that is not the most
current version. I know this is a pain for developers but it would be
helpful to keep a record or test place for this kind of issue.
Anyway, probably thats our job then... :slight_smile:

I hear ya, but testing on different platform really sucks a lot of time... besides, I don't even know if it's possible to keep two different postgres installs on the same PC (Windows XP in my case)...
I really should setup a linux server in a virtual machine to run, but
even in that case, the packages for 7.4.5 would probably conflict
or uninstall the 8.x series one...

Cheers
Andrea

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Arnulf Christl wrote:

Andrea Aime wrote:

Arnulf Christl ha scritto:

Hi, do we have to expect any trouble with a combination of PostgreSQL
7.4.5, PostGIS 1.1.4 and GeoServer on a SuSE SLES 9 box? All
references seem to point to PostgreSQL 8, so I'd rather ask.

I guess you'll have to try out... afaik all of us are running against
8.1.x, and well, 7.4 series is a bit old now, I don't remember having it
installed anywhere...
Let us know how it fares.

Cheers
Andrea

Hi,
thanks for the information. We will try out and report.

Many larger clients have a rather slower version update interval. In this case we are just one out of a good dozen applications using the spatial data. It is not possible to upgrade easily because the dirty half of that dozen applications would probably break... We frequently need to use whats there and in many cases that is not the most current version. I know this is a pain for developers but it would be helpful to keep a record or test place for this kind of issue. Anyway, probably thats our job then... :slight_smile:

Sorry, meant to reply to your email earlier Arnulf. If you do it be sure to get the latest GeoServer (may have to wait for the next release, there's a recent bug fix), as there's a fix there to cover something someone did that made it so we needed a 'schema' column to get the geometry. And schemas don't exist in 7.x afaik (or at least early versions of 7, maybe 7.4 has it?). I was upset by this dependency when we did an upgrade of GeoServer, so it should be resolved. So just a warning, if you have geometry columns not showing up that's the problem, and it is fixed.

Beyond that, we're interested in maintaining 7.x compatibility to the extent that it's possible, and I know of no major changes that should prevent us from doing that. But we do lack regression tests for all old versions. So if you find problems we are happy to fix them for you.

best regards,

Chris

Best regards, Arnulf.

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