Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:20 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) wrote:
> > > Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > > Great! It'd be really nice to have this fix in 8.1.3... :)
> > >
> > > No, it will not be in 8.1.3. It is a new feature.
> >
> > I'd really appriciate it if you could review my post to pgsql-bugs,
> > Message-ID: <20060120144957.GG6026@ns.snowman.net>. If this patch is
> > considered a new feature then I'd like to either revisit that decision
> > or be given some direction on what a bug-fix patch for the grows-to-3G
> > bug would look like.
> >
>
>
> Stephen,
>
> this is a hopeless way of giving a reference. Many users don't keep list
> emails. If you want to refer to a previous post you should give a
> reference to the web archives.
>
> I assume you are referring to this post:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-01/msg00188.php
OK, that helps. The solution is to "not do that", meaning install
postgis before the restore or something. Anyway, adding the patch seems
like too large a risk for a minor release, especially since you are the
first person to complain about it that I remember.
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