Just as a note, the Postgis store can detect the version of Postgis and
apply different behavior based in this. We used to use this when Postgis
switched to st_ prefixing, not sure if that code is still there thought,
been a long while

Cheers
Andrea

Il mar 1 set 2020, 18:26 Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> My understanding is MySQL reimplemented their geometry to be based on
> Boost (indeed right around MySQL 5.7).  This thankfully drops a lot of
> their previous native implementation of geometry.
>
> I would fully support you dropping support for older versions if that
> makes the code easier,
> If we wanted to have both it may be wise to treat it as a new datastore,
> and have the factory choose between implementations (like shapefile
> factory), or leave the previous implementation as a community module for
> those still working with 5.6/5.7.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 08:51, Mark Prins <mc.pr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I've opened [0] which I ran into after setting up online testing with
>> MySQL 8 and will be taking a stab at that, but before I take off I'm
>> wondering which versions of MySQL we want to support in GeoTools.
>>
>> The MySQL project is already dropping support for 5.6 on some platforms
>> [1] and dropping that in GeoTools (24.x/master) would make the
>> migration/upgrade easier as 5.7 is supposed to have both ST_ prefixed
>> and plain named (but deprecated) spatial functions.
>> We could leave 23.x as is (without MySQL 8 support, but with 5.6/5.7
>> support)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> [0] https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-6690
>> [1] https://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/database.html
>>
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