[postgis-users] Adding PostGIS

[Brent Wood]

--- Mark Fenbers <Mark.Fenbers at noaa.gov> wrote:

> All,
> 
> It's been quite a while since I did this, and I can no longer remember 
> the answer to my question even though I've been down this road before.  
> When PostGIS is added to an existing PostgreSQL build, does PostgreSQL 
> itself need to be recompiled with the PostGIS plug-in?  Or is PostGIS a 
> separate layer, such that the PostgreSQL does not have to be recompiled?

Nope. Copy Postgis into the postgres source tree, compile PostGIS, run the SQL
to load the Postgis functions into each database as reqd.

Brent