[postgis-devel] Re: PostGIS datastore creation

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Chris,

Chris Hodgson wrote:
> 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.

As long as the libraries (lwgeom, geos, proj) are installed in the
correct pathes on the server, it is completely possible to install
PostGIS from the client, having the postgis.sql file and the
spatial_refsys.sql on the client.

HTH,
Markus