Recently I decided to seriously start using PostGIS to manage my spatial data. As I have several projects on the go, organizing and managing my data effectively has become extremely important, and PostGIS is by far the most convenient way to do this. There is lots of documentation out there that explains in detail how to set up PostGIS, but by far the best reference I’ve found is from Tim Sutton’s blog, mainly because he uses Ubuntu, and sudo-apt gets everything you need to have PostGIS working in minutes.
Here is a link to the article, and below is a quote from his blog:
Another reason I love Ubuntu - getting postgis + postgresql is really easy…
sudo apt-get install postgis postgresql-8.3-postgis
sudo su postgres
createuser -s -d -r -l -P -E -e timlinux
exit
Enter prompts following above commands as needed. Now you have postgres installed and a user created. Next create an empty spatial database:
createdb qgis
createlang plpgsql qgis
psql qgis < /usr/share/postgresql-8.3-postgis/lwpostgis.sql
psql qgis < /usr/share/postgresql-8.3-postgis/spatial_ref_sys.sql
Easy peasy.
