Use "CREATE EXTENSION postgis; ..." on Ubuntu trusty #156
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As described here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/contrib/gis/install/postgis/#creating-a-spatial-database-with-postgis-2-0-and-postgresql-9-1 ... creating a PostGIS database should be done with "CREATE EXTENSION postgis; CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;" where PostGIS and PostgreSQL are late enough versions, rather than the script to create a template_postgis template. The only supported distribution where we have these versions is currently Ubuntu trusty.
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On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) the script for creating template_postgis doesn't work, and PostGIS support should be added via CREATE EXTENSION instead. Any project that uses install_postgis and has been updated to use this version of commonlib should be updated; for example the corresponding changes for MapIt are here: mysociety/mapit#156
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On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) the script for creating template_postgis doesn't work, and PostGIS support should be added via CREATE EXTENSION instead. Any project that uses install_postgis and has been updated to use this version of commonlib should be updated; for example the corresponding changes for MapIt are here: mysociety/mapit#156
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I guess this could future-proof a bit and put debian jessie in already? That looks to have 9.4/2.1. |
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Also, looking at our |
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Not sure if it will affect this or not, but FYI, it looks like Django 1.8 is going to call |
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Django uses |
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On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) the script for creating template_postgis doesn't work, and PostGIS support should be added via CREATE EXTENSION instead. Any project that uses install_postgis and has been updated to use this version of commonlib should be updated; for example the corresponding changes for MapIt are here: mysociety/mapit#156 Also fix the version of the Django script used to one that still supports Debian squeeze.
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As described here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/contrib/gis/install/postgis/#creating-a-spatial-database-with-postgis-2-0-and-postgresql-9-1
... creating a PostGIS database should be done with
"CREATE EXTENSION postgis; CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;"
where PostGIS and PostgreSQL are late enough versions, rather
than the script to create a template_postgis template.
The only supported distribution where we have these versions is
currently Ubuntu trusty.