[postgis-devel] Re: PostGIS datastore creation

[Chris Hodgson]

> I think the only consequence of my thought is to move whatever
> template/stored procedure creation out of 'make install' and into
> a script $(prefix)/bin/postgis-setup.

Sorry Greg, I misunderstood.

The issue then, is that the actual template database creation script 
(postgis-setup) has be be "made" during the postgis compilation process, 
for whatever platform you are compiling it for. In addition, the postgis 
installer (package manager script, or windows installer) would need to 
run the postgis setup script, probably with a parameter specifying the 
location of the postgis.sql script (and also port, username and 
password). Mark's comment makes alot more sense to me in this context as 
well, however a "remote setup" is probably impossible to do reliably 
(besides being unnecessary) because the postgis.sql file would have to 
be local.

Chris