Hi Bruce,
I'm pretty new to GIS and PostGIS, but I'll try to offer an
idea. It appears that you might not have the postgis code
loaded. I'm going to guess that Nicholas' suggestion
involved setting up the template_postgis database so that
you might make postgis enabled databases without manually
importing the postgis.sql and the spatial_ref_sys.sql?
Are you confident that you did this properly? The error
you're getting makes me thing that the postgis stored
procedures are not properly loaded.
If you log into the DB using psql and execute
\df+ AddGeometryColumn
Do you get an emptry result? If this is not the case you
might try the same on your template database.
Good luck,
Andy
On 8/15/11 6:28 AM, b...@brucecallander.com wrote:
I am following the Geoserver Getting Started documentation in order to create
an example PostGIS table.
I am working on a MacBook running Snow Leopard v10.6.8
Thanks to previous advice from the forum (Nicolas Ribot) I was able to create
the sample database 'nyc' based on the template 'template_postgis'.
I am now encountering errors in trying to move to the next stage of importing
the file 'nyc_buildings.sql' into the database.
The Unix command I am using is:
$ /usr/local/pgsql-9.0/bin/psql -f /Users/bacmac/nyc_buildings.sql nyc
The Geoserver instructions are not explicit about where to put the
nyc_buildings.sql file so I have left it in my own user directory 'bacmac'.
Execution of the command produces a string of errors beginning with:
CREATE TABLE
psql:/Users/bacmac/nyc_buildings.sql:4: ERROR: function
addgeometrycolumn(unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, integer) does
not exist
LINE 1: SELECT AddGeometryColumn('','nyc_buildings','the_geom','2908...
HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to
add explicit type casts.
psql:/Users/bacmac/nyc_buildings.sql:5: ERROR: current transaction is aborted,
commands ignored until end of transaction block
psql:/Users/bacmac/nyc_buildings.sql:6: ERROR: current transaction is aborted
... and so on.
I realise that part of my difficulties stem from a lack of conceptual awareness
of how the various parts of PostGIS fit together (databases, data stores,
tables, clusters...) and what directory structure the PostGIS installation
creates. I am very familiar with Access databases but that may be dangerous
because the basic paradigm for PostGIS may be different. Are there any diagrams
out there that give a basic conceptual view of Geoserver and PostIGIS? Also, I
am coming at this from an enterprise SDI policy and implementation end, not
from an IT/Unix background (probably very obvious!). Trying to construct a
coherent overall picture based on the predominantly text-based, IT-heavy advice
online is proving a challenge.
Many thanks
Bruce Callander
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