Failure when database does not contain PostGIS functions

[tashian]

I need to connect to another database in one of my models, and that database doesn't have PostGIS installed. If I have spatial_adapter installed, I get an ERROR: relation "geometry_columns" does not exist. I think spatial_adapter should look for the table and silently disable itself if it doesn't exist.

[pdeffendol]

I've created a test case that confirms this - now it just needs to be fixed.

[korczis]

How it seems? Will this be fixed soon? Thanks in advance for any info.

[pdeffendol]

I've been pretty swamped with other things, and haven't gotten back to this fix. Due to the nature of the adapter, it's not a trivial thing to do. I would suggest looking into the RGeo gems which don't patch the standard "postgresql" adapter, but provide a new "postgis" adapter type, which would allow you to use the standard adapter for the second, non-spatial database. (Note, RGeo only works with Rails 3.)