[postgis-users] difficulty in adding postgis to existing postgreSQL database

[Paolo Corti]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:25 AM, tasneem dewaswala
<tasneem.europe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very much new to postgreSQL and postgis.
> I installed postgreSQL on my windows XP few months back. This are my version
> details.
>
> "PostgreSQL 8.4.13, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400, 32-bit"
>
> I created a database which is working absolutely fine. But now i want to add
> spatial features to my existing database, hence i installed postgis. But i
> am facing problems in adding this spatial features to my database.
> When i create a new database with postgis template everything works good,
> even simple
> " select postgis_full_version();" query works. Since my database is quite
> large i don't want to build again a new database.
>
> Please guide me how i can solve this problem and add postgis to my existing
> database.
> my postgis version is
>
> "POSTGIS="1.5.5" GEOS="3.3.5-CAPI-1.7.5" PROJ="Rel. 4.6.1, 21 August 2008"
> LIBXML="2.7.8" USE_STATS"
>

Hi
if I understand correctly the situation, you just need to run the
*.sql scripts in your database.
regards
p

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