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33885	Drop automatic PostGIS extension creation on PostGIS backend	Johannes Maron	nobody	"Thanks to our friends at Heroku, we currently can't execute `create extension` without our database throwing an error.

That made us aware of the fact, that the database wrapper for PostGIS execute a SQL statement every time it prepares the database.

That behavior seems inconsistent with how any other PG extension works. Usually, those have to be initialized in a migration explicitly. There has been a debate in the past, if that statement can do any harm, but clearly Heroku has proven it can. Therefore, I would suggest deprecating this behavior and schedule it for deletion in Django 5.

Superseeds #28975"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	GIS	4.0	Normal	duplicate		amureki	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0