PostGIS

Website

https://www.postgis.net/

Description

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been certified as compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.

Package naming convention

PostGIS uses two digit version numbers like 3.4, 3.5, etc. Traditionally there is a new major release every year along with (but not strictly tied to) the PostgreSQL major release.
The PostgreSQL RPM repository uses both PostGIS and PostgreSQL version numbers in the RPM packages. For example PostGIS 3.5 for PostgreSQL 17 is named as postgis35_17. Similarly PostGIS 3.2 for PostgreSQL 15 is named as postgis32_15.

Subpackages

PostGIS provides the following subpackages:

• client: Provides client tools and their libraries of PostGIS
• devel: Provides development headers and libraries for PostGIS
• docs: Provides PDF documentation of PostGIS
• gui: Provides shp2pgsql-gui binary and related files for PostGIS
• llvmjit: Provides just-in-time compilation support for PostGIS
• utils: Provides per utils for PostGIS

Package specifications and repository requirements

PostgreSQL PGDG RPM repository

Install PGDG repository from: https://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages/

PostGIS heavily depends on the EPEL repository for some packages on these platforms. Users must install the EPEL repo RPM along with PGDG repo RPMs to satisfy dependencies. Please visit our EPEL support page for details.

Installation

Post-installation

Connect to the database that you want to create the extension as superuser (except postgis_tiger_geocoder) and run:

• CREATE EXTENSION postgis; # Main extension
• CREATE EXTENSION postgis_raster; # PostGIS raster types and functions
• CREATE EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal; # PostGIS SFCGAL functions
• CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder CASCADE; # PostGIS tiger geocoder and reverse geocoder. CASCADE is needed for the fuzzystrmatch extension
• CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_topology; # PostGIS topology spatial types and functions

Available packages

News

• RHEL 10 RPMS released.
• Fedora 42 packages released.
• Fedora 41 packages released.
• RHEL 7 EOL announcement
• New GPG keys
• New URL for the -debuginfo packages
• EOL announcement for RHEL 7.
• New repo for Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux 9 & 8 + LLVM users
• New repo: Extra packages.
• Non-Free repository RPMs are out.
• RHEL 9 - aarch64 support
• RHEL 8 - ppc64le support
• aarch64(arm64) support is now available
• Some -devel RPMs require a new repository
• Announcing "common" repository