I'm trying to install PostgreSQL with its PostGIS extension on Mac. The installation happens in two parts : 1) PostgreSQL and 2) PostGIS through the stack builder. The first phase goes smoothly, but the second phase returns the following error at the beginning of the installation of PostGIS:
I trying installing it with the latest version of PostgreSQL as well (version 12), and I get the same error. Any idea what is happening here?
I have the same issue when I install PostGIS by Stack Builder on MacOS.
After many times trying to install/uninstall PostGIS. Finally, I installed it successfully by manual installation.
I think this issue caused by your MacOS doesn't have or conflict in the default app for extracting .zip file.
I have fixed it by install manually, like the following:
Download PostGIS by Stack Builder as usual
Open the folder where you have downloaded PostGIS (often it is /Users/yourUserName)
Extract the PostGIS zip file (the file name like this: edb_postgis_...)
Install PostGIS app
Finally, everything is done! You have installed it successfully!
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I´m trying to get PostGIS working, but it seems that Postgresql doesn´t find the extension. My server is running on CentOS 8, the Postgresql is version 12. I installed Postgresql 12 first via dnf module enable postgresql:12 etc..
Afterwards I installed PostGIS and followed the description on the PostGIS website (https://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/102-Installing-PostGIS-3.0-and-PostgreSQL-12-on-CentOS-8.html). But when I try to run CREATE EXTENSION postgis; I get the error ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-3": No such file or directory SQL state: 58P01 I figured out that the needed files reside in a subdirectory "bitcode". Therefore I tried to symlink the content in the $libdir directory above - but didn´t help. Even copying them in the directory didn´t - same error. What am I missing?
Thank you and best regards,
Goetz
You have a mix of packages installed: Some from the CentOS distribution, some from the PostgreSQL site. That will lead to trouble.
Uninstall the PostgreSQL packages that do not have PGDG in them and make sure to disable them as shown in the link you show. Then install the PGDG packages for PostGIS
I have installed Postgresql#9.6 and Postgis via Homebrew. However, installing Postgis via Homebrew installs the latest version of Postgresql at 10 as dependency and pinning Postgresql at 9.6.5 blocks the install of Postgis via Homebrew.
Performing 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;' returns:
ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql#9.6/9.6.5/share/postgresql#9.6/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory
I've also tried uninstalling the Postgresql (at 10) and editing the Postgis formula to depend on Postgres#9.6 instead of Postgresql.
This is similar to How to install Postgis to a Keg installation of Postgres#9.5 using Homebrew? but with a later keg formula
I managed to do it after many combinations.
In a nutshell, solution is to install the old version of the original package postgres, switch to it, and install the old version of postgis.
Install postgres
1/ Install the current version of postgres (10.1 as speaking)
brew install postgres
2/ Install the old version of postgres using its old formula. Proper link can be found using github or git log on the Tap repo (/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/).
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/d014fa223f77bee4b4097c5e80faa0954e28182f/Formula/postgresql.rb
This will install the version 9.6.5 (last one before 10.x series).
3/ Switch to it so links are defaulted to postgres 9.6
brew switch postgres 9.6.5
Install postgis
4/ Install old version of postgis (2.3). This is using the same sha version of the Formula so everything is linked correctly (using the current postgis will expect postgresql 10, so it will end up to a version mismatch when initializing extension).
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/d014fa223f77bee4b4097c5e80faa0954e28182f/Formula/postgis.rb
Use them
5/ If required initialise the DB
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
6/ Create and use your DB
createdb mydb
psql mydb
mydb=# CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
Installing PEX, a package manager for Postgresql allowed me to install Postgis for the keg version of Postgresql#9.6 and use CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
This isn't a Homebrew solution but after a lot of searching, it finally allowed me to use Postgis.
HelloI ran into this same problem of multiple implementation of pgsql versions including legacy ones. So after a bit of research I would like to share my solution.
Problem:
I am working on a macbook pro 2013 with 10.11 el capitan. I am GIS developer and extensive user of homebrew. I didn't pin the postgresql package for compatibility reasons. Thus, the package got updated to postgresql version 10.5 along other packages. This caused me to be unable to use postgresql version 9.4. The cleverest solution would have been to use a brew switch postgresql 9.4.19. Except that when compiling postgis 2.5.0 from osgeo/osgeo4mac it defautls (looks for) the postgresql binary folder to install the symlinked (or not) extensions. Here again another compatibility problem. One could tinker a bit with homebrew files and transfer files manually. That's ill advice...the package manager (homebrew) needs to stay a coherent ecosystem to provide for a stable workspace.
Proposed Solution:
Go here BigSQL and download the dmg of your chosen version
install the software where you want in your filesystem
within the installation folder you'll find a directory named pg9x ; x being the version number (e.g pg95 for postgresql 9.5 and so on...
in this folder you'll find a file named pg9x.env
source this file to your .profile with source /your/path/pg9x/pg9x.env line
in the main installation folder, for instance /your/path/pg9x/, you'll finde a python script called pgc, alias it to your .profile with alias pgc="your/path/pgc"
save your .profile and refresh your environment variable with source .profile on the command prompt
still within the command prompt, type pgc list, you'll get a list of installed packages. You'll see the version of postgesql you've downloaded
to install another version of postgresql, say 9.6, type pgc install pg96
to install postgis for pg95 type pgc install postgis22-pg95
to install postgis for pg96 type pgc install postgis23-pg96
now, after installation you'll need to initialize the downloaded component with pgc init pg96 or pgc init postgis23-pg96 etc...
to check if your daemon is running correctly type pgc status
to start a version daemon of your choice type for example pgc start pg95
to stop a version daemon of your choice type pgc stop pg95
the installation also comes with an LTS release of pgadmin3 that works fine with all versions (not the case of brew version of pgadmin3), this is very convenient
type pgc help for more options
Let the elephant dance^^
Hope this helps.
Spicy.
I faced a similar issue and what worked for me was to follow the instructions at https://github.com/CloverHealth/homebrew-tap, which seem similar in spirit to #Antwan's solution but with a few more clean up steps, also it gets slightly later versions: postgresql 9.6.10 and postgis 2.5.
My steps differed slightly from those at CloverHealth: My brew version no longer supports brew switch postgresql 9.6.10 and I tried first brew link postgresql#9.6.10 and then brew link postgresql#9.6 but both gave
Error: no such keg
Trying brew search postgresql showed a little green checkmark next to the cloverhealth Formulae, so I tried brew link cloverhealth/tap/postgresql and got
Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.6.10
So, ok it was already linked. Other than that my steps were the same as described at the CloverHealth page, and now I'm up and running again.
I have installed Postgresql#9.5 to my OSX El Capitan Machine using Homebrew 1.2. Unfortunately, upon installing Postgis, and performing CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
It returns,
ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql#9.5/9.5.6/share/postgresql#9.5/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory
I tried, uninstalling all postgresql and install only the 9.5 version, and then installing postgis but to no avail.
I think I got a similar question but this one is only for Ubuntu.
how to change install postgis location? postgres
This discussion also instruct to install postgresql using # notation but didn't tell that it will create a non-comformant directory name
i tried to create extension for postgis in postgresql 9.5. I've already follow from here
But it doesn't work like i expected. I got error ERROR: could not load library "/usr/pgsql-9.5/lib/rtpostgis-2.2.so": libhdf5.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when i execute CREATE EXTENSION postgis
I have had install this on my other machine which run ubuntu. But this machine using centos 6. am i missing something? please help.
Looks like the package you need is hdf5
There have been a fair number of problems reported with this library (a quick google search is helpful), but you may try making sure you can find libhdf5.so.6 on your system and if not reinstalling the rpm.
If that doesn't work, build the library from source or find an alternate version for download?
Upon running rake db:test:prepare my test database was dropped, but failed to be rebuilt. After researching the errors, I simply attempted to load the database with rake db:test:load to repopulate based on the schema.rb file. That call resulted in the following message
PG::Error: ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/pgsql-9.1/share/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory
I've spent the day reinstalling postgresql-9.1 and postGIS 1.5.3 on a test server in every way I can find on the internet, and none of those installations produce the ever-elusive postgis.control file. Is there a special install I need to run on a CentOS6 machine to produce the binary? Or is there another way to run the rake tasks to test the psql database?
This message is shown for CREATE EXTENSION postgis; however the newer extension method was introduced for PostGIS 2.0. The version that you have installed does not support this method.
Either upgrade to PostGIS 2.0 (excellent RPMs for YUM here), or spatially enable a PostGIS 1.5 database using either a template or using enabler scripts. Details here.