Hi Eric, thanks for your reply.
I was looking at the wiki and for anyone having this problem please refer to the "newbie common problems" section on the PostGis Wiki: http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/ Thanks again James 2008/10/26 James Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi PostGis Community, > > My Question: > Does everyone have a separate PostGis and Postgres db in their server > or do people put all their data in the PostGis db? > > Background: > I have been using Postgres DB since September and just now I need to > add GIS support to my application so the obvious thing was to install > PostGis. > During my PostGis installation a new db (called PostGis) was created. > > I need to link my goereferenced data to other data in my db before i > display it to the user on the map and that is why i need all the data > in 1 db. > cross-db references are not allowed in Postgres so I am left with 2 options: > 1. Copy all my existing data to the PostGis db > 2. Copy the whole PostGis db into my existing db. > > Both these options seem cumbersome and pretty silly so I must be > missing something here - please enlighten me. > > thanks > > James > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
