Re: Trouble creating extensions: postgis and postgis_topology

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Zeng, David (GE Healthcare) <
david(dot)zeng(at)ge(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello, my friends, I am configuring PostGIS for the database restore. I
> ran the following sequence successfully on a brand new database yesterday
> afternoon:
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> CREATE SCHEMA postgis;
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> ALTER DATABASE dz5 SET search_path="$user", public, postgis,topology;
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> GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA postgis TO public;
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> CREATE EXTENSION postgis WITH SCHEMA postgis;
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> CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;
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> However, I got the following error when it get to “CREATE EXTENSION
> postgis_topology;” step today:
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> ERROR: type "geometry" does not exist
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> Any thoughts? Has any one of you experienced this before?
>
> ​
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​You've altered the database default search_path but haven't actually
changed it in the active session. You either need to do "set search_path"
or, after the alter database, disconnect and reconnect to the database.

David J.