Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of UsersWikiMakeCheckConsiderations

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Jul 18, 2009, 8:12:09 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

robe

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UsersWikiMakeCheckConsiderations

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 1. '''You have multiple PostgreSQL installs'''
 
-If you have multiple PostgreSQL installs as is the case if you are a package developer or just tsting diligently, the 
-first thing you want to make sure is that you are testing the right PostgreSQL install.  To do so do the following:
+a. If you have multiple PostgreSQL installs as is the case if you are a package developer or just testing diligently, the 
+first thing you want to make sure is that you are testing the right PostgreSQL install.  
 
+To do so do the following (where 5434 is the port your test PostgreSQL service is running under, and the path is the path to the postgresql install you are testing:
+
+export PATH="/c/thesrc/pg84/bin:$PATH"
+
+export PGPORT=5434
+
+export PGUSER=postgres 
+
+b. Depending on how you did your make install of geos and proj, they might not be located in a place accessible by the PostgreSQL install.  For windows users, you want the libgeos-3-1-1.dll, libgeos_c-1.dll,libiconv-2.dll and libproj.dlls to be located in the bin folder of your PostgreSQL install.
+
+c. If make check fails mid-way -- it often leaves a dangling postgis_reg.  Just drop it if it complains:
+
+dropdb postgis_reg