> From: m zyzy <myzyzy@gmail.com>
> Subject: [ADMIN] postgresql-postGIS problem detected in pgadmin
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 8:03 AM
> I am using pgadminIII 1.8.4 (tar.gz -built from source) ,
> postgresql
> 8.3.4(rpm from default packages repo) and postgis
> (postgis-1.3.3-4.fc10.i386.rpm) (installed using fedora10
> rpm -i / -ivh
> command) . These 3 have been installed successfully.
>
> But to my horror , when I trying to create a new database ,
> UTF8, using
> postGIS template in pgadmin , the option is not even there
> in the template's
> dropdown list . Which I am suspecting a faulty postGIS
> installation . Prior
> to installing the postgis rpm version, I tried many times
> to install from
> source but to no avail with error message ' PostgreSQL
> is required' when
> POstgreSQL is already installed months before ....
create the database in pgsql
CREATE DATABASE db2 ENCODING 'utf8';