Ubuntu documentation for geospatial/Postgres is out of date

[mfitzp]

The note where it says "The PostGIS SQL files are not placed the PostgreSQL share directory in the Ubuntu packages. Use the create_template_postgis-debian.sh script instead when Creating a Spatial Database Template for PostGIS." links to an Ubuntu script which no longer works (Maverick 10.10).

The following script is functional:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
POSTGIS_SQL_PATH=/usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5
createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis # Create the template spatial database.
createlang -d template_postgis plpgsql # Adding PLPGSQL language support.
psql -d postgres -c "UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate='true' WHERE datname='template_postgis';"
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_SQL_PATH/postgis.sql # Loading the PostGIS SQL routines
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_SQL_PATH/spatial_ref_sys.sql
psql -d template_postgis -c "GRANT ALL ON geometry_columns TO PUBLIC;" # Enabling users to alter spatial tables.
psql -d template_postgis -c "GRANT ALL ON spatial_ref_sys TO PUBLIC;"

Note the updated path and the renamed lwpostgis.sql > postgis.sql

[mfitzp]

updated script

[Gabriel Hurley]

Formatted description. The docs referenced by this ticket are here: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#ibex

The whole section is outdated, not just the script. Those docs don't mention Jaunty (9.04) or Lucid (10.04) at all. Simply fixing the script isn't the answer, here, though it would help.

Also, the current sentence has a typo, and is missing the word "in".

[jbronn]

Fixed in r15536. Scripts were updated for all Ubuntu/Debian distributions and docs were updated to include instructions for latest versions of Ubuntu.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.3 deleted