diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 79e8486821..6147967ab2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,13 @@ before_install:
   - git submodule update --init --recursive
   - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
   - sudo apt-get update -qq
-  - sudo apt-get install -qq libpq-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev libgeos-dev libgd2-noxpm-dev libfreetype6-dev libfcgi-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcairo2-dev libgdal1-dev libproj-dev libxml2-dev
+  - sudo apt-get install -qq postgis libpq-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev libgeos-dev libgd2-noxpm-dev libfreetype6-dev libfcgi-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcairo2-dev libgdal1-dev libproj-dev libxml2-dev
   - sudo apt-get install php-pear
   - sudo pear config-set auto_discover 1 && sudo pear install --alldeps channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit
   - echo "extension=php_mapscript.so" | sudo tee -a /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
+  - psql -c 'create database msautotest;' -U postgres
+  - psql -c 'create extension postgis;' -d msautotest -U postgres 
+  - shp2pgsql -g the_geom msautotest/query/data/bdry_counpy2.shp bdry_counpy2 | psql -U postgres -d msautotest
 
 install:
   - ./configure --with-gd --with-postgis --with-wmsclient --with-wfsclient --with-kml --with-cairo --with-wcs --with-proj --with-geos --with-gdal --with-ogr --with-wfs --with-sos --with-php
diff --git a/runtests.sh b/runtests.sh
index 70b008852f..8c490630f4 100755
--- a/runtests.sh
+++ b/runtests.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ret=0
 
-tests=( misc gdal renderers wxs )
+tests=( query )
 
 for testcase in  "${tests[@]}" ; do
    cd msautotest/$testcase