Postgis / Geodjango: Cannot determine PostGIS version for database

Question

I\'m attempting to launch a GeoDjango app. I\'ve installed Postgres & PostGIS using brew on Lion. I created a database using template_postgis: createdb -T template_pos

Answer 1

As a first debugging step: try to check the postgis template version manually, e.g. on the command-line connect to your database with psql test, and query with select postgis_lib_version();. This function should be defined in template_postgis and return some number. Example output:

$ psql test
psql (9.0.4)
Type "help" for help.

test=# select postgis_lib_version();

 postgis_lib_version
---------------------
 1.5.2
(1 row)

If an error occurs, you know the error is in the database.