I have resolved the issue with the loader tests. Even though I built separate versions of Postgis-1.5.3 for PostgreSQL 8.4.1 and 9.0.4, ld.so only knew about the 8.4.1 library path.
Explicitly setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the 9,0,4 library path resolved the issue. The "rounding error" in test 47 remains. Has this been fixed yet? Cheers and thanks, Stephen I am in the process of upgrading from PostgreSQL 8.4.1 and PostGIS 1.4.1 to PostgreSQL 9.0.4 and PostGIS 1.5.3. I started by upgrading the 8.4.1 databases to PostgGIS 1.5.3 and the regression tests passed except for test 47 (tickets). This seems to be a known rounding issue. I then proceeded to create a parallel 9.0.4 PostgreSQL environment and to rebuild PostGIS 1.5.3 against that. This time the regression test results were: Creating spatial db postgis_reg createlang: language "plpgsql" is already installed in database "postgis_reg" TMPDIR is /tmp/ PATH is /usr/local/pgsql904/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/java/jdk/bin:/usr/lib/qt4/bin PostgreSQL 9.0.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.4.3, 32- bit Postgis 1.5.3 - 2011-10-19 01:18:06 GEOS: 3.2.2-CAPI-1.6.2 PROJ: Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009 Running tests loader/Point....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/PointM....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/PointZ....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/MultiPoint....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/MultiPointM....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/MultiPointZ....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/Arc....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/ArcM....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/ArcZ..... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/Polygon....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/PolygonM....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) loader/PolygonZ....... failed (dumping loaded table: /tmp//dumper.err) regress. ok regress_index. ok regress_index_nulls. ok lwgeom_regress. ok regress_lrs. ok removepoint. ok setpoint. ok simplify. ok snaptogrid. ok affine. ok wkt. ok measures. ok long_xact. ok ctors. ok sql-mm-serialize. ok sql-mm-circularstring. ok sql-mm-compoundcurve. ok sql-mm-curvepoly. ok sql-mm-general. ok sql-mm-multicurve. ok sql-mm-multisurface. ok geojson. ok gml. ok svg. ok kml. ok in_gml. ok in_kml. ok regress_ogc. ok regress_ogc_cover. ok regress_ogc_prep. ok regress_bdpoly. ok regress_proj. ok dumppoints. ok wmsservers. ok tickets. failed (diff expected obtained: /tmp//test_47_diff) regress_buffer_params. ok hausdorff. ok Run tests: 49 Failed: 13 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/sources/postgis-1.5.3/regress' The failing test out puts were (test 47 was the same for both environments): [postgres@mustang postgis-1.5.3]$ cat /tmp/test_47_diff *** tickets_expected Fri May 13 07:16:31 2011 --- /tmp//test_47_out Wed Oct 19 13:02:29 2011 *************** *** 39,45 **** #179a| NOTICE: No points in input array #179b| ! #183|COMPOUNDCURVE(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0,0.500000000000184 1.20710678118655,1 0),(1 0,0 1)) #210a| NOTICE: No points in input array #210b| --- 39,45 ---- #179a| NOTICE: No points in input array #179b| ! #183|COMPOUNDCURVE(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0,0.500000000000083 1.20710678118655,1 0),(1 0,0 1)) #210a| NOTICE: No points in input array #210b| [postgres@mustang postgis-1.5.3]$ cat /tmp/dumper.err Initializing... WARNING: Cannot determine spatial reference (empty table or unknown spatial ref). No prj file will be generated. Done (postgis major version: 1). Output shape: PolygonZ Dumping: XERROR: parse error - invalid geometry -- ============================================================================= Stephen Davies Consulting P/L Voice: 08-8177 1595 Adelaide, South Australia. Fax : 08-8177 0133 Records & Collections Management. Mobile:040 304 0583 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users