Hi Guix, Please disregard my last message. It looks like Julien's patch that adds #:extension-packages to the operating-system's postgresql-service function was already merged into master. Excellent!
~Gary Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > Gary Johnson <lambdatro...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. febr. > 5., K, 19:22): >> >> Hi Guix, >> >> I need to install the PostGIS spatial extensions into my local >> PostgreSQL database. However, due to our unique packaging setup, >> PostgreSQL cannot find the PostGIS extension directory. >> > > The fix for this is currently on staging, see: > http://issues.guix.info/issue/32297. > If needed you can cherry-pick it from there, but this may trigger lot > of rebuilds. > >> Here is the error I'm getting from within a psql session: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION postgis; >> >> ERROR: could not open extension control file >> "/gnu/store/1ybw54pgin4b59czcppybzlk6jkqnxik-postgresql-10.6/share/extension/postgis.control": >> No such file or directory >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This file is actually installed here: >> >> /gnu/store/nx9lyaia3z8ilxm1z80f7rhg1j3ka1j8-postgis-2.4.4/share/extension/postgis.control >> >> So...the issue is, of course, that Guix is installing PostGIS into its >> own directory under /gnu/store rather then into the PostgreSQL install >> directory, which is how other package managers do it. >> >> Unfortunately, I can't find any environment variables that I can set to >> tell PostgreSQL where to look from the postgis.control file. Instead, it >> looks like the *postgis* package under gnu/packages/geo.scm needs to be >> rewritten to correctly write out symlinks into the postgresql install >> directory. >> >> I don't currently have the Guix programming chops to make this happen. >> Perhaps someone else on this mailing list can help? >> >> Thanks, >> Gary >> > > Thank you for your report. > > Best regards, > g_bor
