[postgis-users] Postgis installation

[Oscar Zamudio]

Thanks Nicklas,
Maybe I did not expressed my questions very well. I already have a database
with PostGIS enabled and I am working well with it. I installed PostGIS
1.3.6 in PostgreSQL as I mentioned using the App. Stack Builder.
My problem is that now I want to check some PostGIS features as Reference
systems because I need to measure distances etc.. As I'm reading the
manuals, I learned about the existence of a SPATIAL_GEOMETRY_COLUMNS table
(or example) that I didn't find in my installation nor in my customer
installation. I used to see in another installation a database with the name
"postgis" so I thought that maybe in that database (that I guess is a master
database for PostGIS extension) I would find the tables that mention hte
manuals.
As I made a mistake in the original installation of PostGIS (didn't check
the creation of "postgis" database) I want to reinstall it and this time
check that option. How can I make this reinstallation and more important:
can I do this without affecting my own PostGIS enabled database I already
created in PosgreSQL?
I certainly cannot update now to the last version of PostgreSQL and PostGIS
because my customer use this configuration and I don't want to push them now
to make these changes.
Regards

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Nicklas Avén
<nicklas.aven at jordogskog.no>wrote:

> Hallo Oscar
>
> You can spatially enable any database by loading and running
> lwpostgis.sql
> and
> spatial_ref_sys.sql
>
> for instance in pgAdmin
>
> I think that's the right name of the files for your version and you can
> find them in :
> C:\Program files\PostgreSQL\8.3\share\contrib
> or something corresponing on your system.
> Probably you will have to remove the lines with "vacuum" in the
> spatial_ref_sys.sql before running. That issue shoud be fixed in upcoming
> PostGIS 1.5
>
> But if you have the possibility you probably want to upgrade both database
> and postgis. Latest stable now is
> PostgreSQL 8.4.2 and PostGIS 1.4. Hopefully in a couple of weeks PostGIS
> 1.5 will be released.
>
> Hope that helps
> Nicklas
>
>
> 2010-01-13 Oscar Zamudio wrote:
>
> Hi everybody. I'm a newbie and trying to use PostGIS with PostgreSQL in
> Windows. I installed PostgreSQL 8.3 and also PostGIS 1.3.6 using the
> Application Stack Builder. Spatial queries are working fine but I have some
> doubts about the PostGIS configuration. Where can I find the SPATIAL_REF_SYS
> Table for example, or the GEOMETRY_COLUMNS table? At the time I was
> installing the PostGIS extension I didn't check the creation of a postgis
> database. I guess postgis database contains the tables that I'm looking for.
> Am I wrong? >
> I was thinking in reinstall the PostGIS 1.3.6 and create the postgis
> database but I don't know how, as the Application Stack Builder doesn't
> allow me to do that. Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance
>
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