Re: [postgis-users] Difficulty importing example file nyc_buildings.sql

2011-08-17 Thread Ben Madin
Bruce, a couple of things : $PATH won't help - the only program you are using is psql, and that is running. FWIW, I would put /usr/local/pgsql-9/0/bin into your path so you don't have to type the full command every time. AddGeometryColumn is a PostGIS function - if you can run psql nyc and

Re: [postgis-users] Difficulty importing example file nyc_buildings.sql

2011-08-17 Thread b...@brucecallander.com
Thanks to Ben Madin for advice. I removed the apostrophes from the SRID in nyc_buildings.sql (using TextEdit) and re-ran the command /usr/local/pgsql-9.0/bin/psql -f /Users/bacmac/nyc_buildings.sql nyc Unfortunately it produced the same result: BEGIN psql:/Users/bacmac/nyc_buildings.sql:3: NOT

Re: [postgis-users] Difficulty importing example file nyc_buildings.sql

2011-08-15 Thread Ben Madin
Bruce, On 15/08/2011, at 6:28 PM, b...@brucecallander.com wrote: > $ /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'. It doe

Re: [postgis-users] Difficulty importing example file nyc_buildings.sql

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Libby
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 manual

[postgis-users] Difficulty importing example file nyc_buildings.sql

2011-08-15 Thread b...@brucecallander.com
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_