geospatial repo

PostGIS 2.5.4 for Greenplum 6.x

License

This project is developed under GPL v2, because PostGIS is GPL v2.

How to compile it

Currently, we support building geospatial on rhel/centos. To compile geospatial form source code, please install the following third-party libraries as described in README.libs. For normal use without raster, please install json-c, geos and proj.4. To enable raster functionality, please install gdal and expat. The minimum version requirments are listed in Makefile.version.

Before setting up geospatial, please make sure GPDB is installed correctly. To compile and install geospatial, use following command:

cd postgis/build/postgis-2.5.4/
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-pgconfig=$GPHOME/bin/pg_config --with-raster --without-topology --prefix=$GPHOME
make USE_PGXS=1 clean all install

Here USE_PGXS will specify the correct install path to gpdb.

Note that if psql is in path, there is no need to use --with-pgconfig flag.

How to use it

After installing geospatial extension, run the following commands to enable it:

psql mydatabase
mydatabase# CREATE EXTENSION postgis; -- enables postgis and raster
mydatabase# CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch; -- required for installing tiger geocoder
mydatabase# CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder; -- enables tiger geocoder
mydatabase# CREATE EXTENSION address_standardizer; -- enable address_standardizer
mydatabase# CREATE EXTENSION address_standardizer_data_us;

To configure raster utilities, please set the following environment variables on the master host and all the segment hosts. A suggested way to do this is to add these variables into your $GPHOME/greenplum_path.sh file to ensure they get set in all the segment hosts and the master host. Make sure that you restart the database after setting them.

export GDAL_DATA=$GPHOME/share/gdal
export POSTGIS_ENABLE_OUTDB_RASTERS=0
export POSTGIS_GDAL_ENABLED_DRIVERS=DISABLE_ALL

Note: to guarantee that make check test cases run correctly, all the gdal drivers are disabled. To enable specific types of gdal drivers for a certain use case, please refer to this postgis manual. An example can be like this:

POSTGIS_GDAL_ENABLED_DRIVERS="GTiff PNG JPEG GIF XYZ"

In near future we plan to create GUCs for these variables after we backport necessary features into the gpdb repository.

Workaround for missing .so files

If any of the third party libraries are not installed in the default system path, you may see this issue while running the postgis.sql file

psql -d mydatabase -f ${GPHOME}/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis-2.5/postgis.sql
postgis-2.5.so": libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This may happen because postgis.so cannot find one or more of the third party .so files to link against. Here is a workaround

1. Edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add all the non default library paths that are used by geospatial.

For e.g. if you compiled and installed proj in /tmp/proj-install, this is how /etc/ld.so.conf would look like

   include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
   /tmp/proj-install/lib

2. Run ldconfig