[postgis-users] Problems with installing postgis in windows

paul...@lfv.se

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Feb 27, 2019, 5:02:53 AM2/27/19

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Hi,

I’ve tried to install Postgis for windows (postgis-bundle-pg11x64-setup-2.5.1-1.exe) with PostgreSQL11.

But I receive this message at the end of the installation:

ERROR: could not open extension control file "C:/POSTGR~1/pg11/../pg11/share/postgresql/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory

Then I down loaded the zip file and copied the postgis.control to this directory and tried to install again.

This time I got this error message instead at the end of the installation:

ERROR: extension "postgis" has no installation script nor update path for version "2.5.1"

Has anyone any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Kind regards,

Paul

paul...@lfv.se

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Feb 28, 2019, 3:24:49 AM2/28/19

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Sorry it works now, I had used postgres “BIGSQL”, not EDB installation!

Regina Obe

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Feb 28, 2019, 8:28:18 AM2/28/19

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I'm thinking about how many people get bitten by this.

Would it help if I put –edb or something like that in the installer name?

The binaries should work fine with BigSQL though aside from the paths, but I figured most people using BigSQL would be using the BigSQL postgis binaries so no need to create a batch script for it or anything aside from a cursory explanation.