[postgis-users] postgis1.4.0 installation errors on pgsql8.4.. Solution

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Ravi wrote:

> Hi,
> I succeeded in installing postgis1.4.0 on pgsql8.4.
> The readme.txt for postgis1.4.0 installation on pgsql8.4 may be modified
> if possible as follows.
> Steps to be changed are shown below.
> 
>  1) Copy the contents of this folder into C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4 or where you have installed
> This step may be
> 1)Copy the contents of this folder postgis1.4.0  C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4 , Bin contents--> C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\Bin, Lib contents --> to C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\Lib
>  The folder postgis1.4.0 may be copied to C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4.
> 
> 
> 4) "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin\psql" -p 5432
>  -U postgres -d template_postgis14 -f "C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\share\contrib\postgis\postgis.sql"
> 
> Change the above path as the new folder postgis1.4.0 just copied 
> has a path C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\postgis1.4.0
> 
> This step may be
> 4) "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\bin\psql" -p 5432
>  -U postgres -d template_postgis14 -f "C:\Program
>  Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\postgis1.4.0\postgis\postgis.sql"
> 
> Ravi Kumar


Hi Ravi,

The original instructions look fine to me - I think you may have 
misunderstood the part about how to extract the binaries into the 
PostgreSQL installation directory...


ATB,

Mark.

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