Fixed #16455 -- Added support for PostGIS 2.0

Thanks ckarrie for the report and the initial patches, Flavio Curella
for updating the patch, and Anssi Kääriäinen for testing. See ticket
for other valuable contributors.

2 files changed, 68 insertions, 47 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt
index d84ffc6b52..d66fd7ab77 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ supported versions, and any notes for each of the supported database backends:
 ==================  ==============================  ==================  =========================================
 Database            Library Requirements            Supported Versions  Notes
 ==================  ==============================  ==================  =========================================
-PostgreSQL          GEOS, PROJ.4, PostGIS           8.1+                Requires PostGIS.
+PostgreSQL          GEOS, PROJ.4, PostGIS           8.2+                Requires PostGIS.
 MySQL               GEOS                            5.x                 Not OGC-compliant; limited functionality.
 Oracle              GEOS                            10.2, 11            XE not supported; not tested with 9.
 SQLite              GEOS, GDAL, PROJ.4, SpatiaLite  3.6.+               Requires SpatiaLite 2.3+, pysqlite2 2.5+
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Program                   Description                           Required
 `PROJ.4`_                 Cartographic Projections library      Yes (PostgreSQL and SQLite only)  4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.4
 :ref:`GDAL <ref-gdal>`    Geospatial Data Abstraction Library   No (but, required for SQLite)     1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6, 1.5
 :ref:`GeoIP <ref-geoip>`  IP-based geolocation library          No                                1.4
-`PostGIS`__               Spatial extensions for PostgreSQL     Yes (PostgreSQL only)             1.5, 1.4, 1.3
+`PostGIS`__               Spatial extensions for PostgreSQL     Yes (PostgreSQL only)             2.0, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3
 `SpatiaLite`__            Spatial extensions for SQLite         Yes (SQLite only)                 3.0, 2.4, 2.3
 ========================  ====================================  ================================  ==========================
 
@@ -226,45 +226,6 @@ Finally, configure, make and install PROJ.4::
     $ sudo make install
     $ cd ..
 
-.. _postgis:
-
-PostGIS
--------
-
-`PostGIS`__ adds geographic object support to PostgreSQL, turning it
-into a spatial database. :ref:`geosbuild` and :ref:`proj4` should be
-installed prior to building PostGIS.
-
-.. note::
-
-    The `psycopg2`_ module is required for use as the database adaptor
-    when using GeoDjango with PostGIS.
-
-.. _psycopg2: http://initd.org/psycopg/
-
-First download the source archive, and extract::
-
-    $ wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.5.5.tar.gz
-    $ tar xzf postgis-1.5.5.tar.gz
-    $ cd postgis-1.5.5
-
-Next, configure, make and install PostGIS::
-
-    $ ./configure
-
-Finally, make and install::
-
-    $ make
-    $ sudo make install
-    $ cd ..
-
-.. note::
-
-    GeoDjango does not automatically create a spatial database.  Please
-    consult the section on :ref:`spatialdb_template` for more information.
-
-__ http://postgis.refractions.net/
-
 .. _gdalbuild:
 
 GDAL
@@ -364,6 +325,48 @@ file:
 
     SetEnv GDAL_DATA /usr/local/share
 
+.. _postgis:
+
+PostGIS
+-------
+
+`PostGIS`__ adds geographic object support to PostgreSQL, turning it
+into a spatial database. :ref:`geosbuild`, :ref:`proj4` and
+:ref:`gdalbuild` should be installed prior to building PostGIS. You
+might also need additional libraries, see `PostGIS requirements`_.
+
+.. note::
+
+    The `psycopg2`_ module is required for use as the database adaptor
+    when using GeoDjango with PostGIS.
+
+.. _psycopg2: http://initd.org/psycopg/
+.. _PostGIS requirements: http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-2.0/postgis_installation.html#id2711662
+
+First download the source archive, and extract::
+
+    $ wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-2.0.1.tar.gz
+    $ tar xzf postgis-2.0.1.tar.gz
+    $ cd postgis-2.0.1
+
+Next, configure, make and install PostGIS::
+
+    $ ./configure
+
+Finally, make and install::
+
+    $ make
+    $ sudo make install
+    $ cd ..
+
+.. note::
+
+    GeoDjango does not automatically create a spatial database.  Please consult
+    the section on :ref:`spatialdb_template91` or
+    :ref:`spatialdb_template_earlier` for more information.
+
+__ http://postgis.refractions.net/
+
 .. _spatialite:
 
 SpatiaLite
@@ -507,10 +510,27 @@ to build and install::
 Post-installation
 =================
 
-.. _spatialdb_template:
+.. _spatialdb_template91:
+
+Creating a spatial database with PostGIS 2.0 and PostgreSQL 9.1
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+PostGIS 2 includes an extension for Postgres 9.1 that can be used to enable
+spatial functionality::
+
+    $ createdb  <db name>
+    $ psql <db name>
+    > CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
+    > CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;
+
+.. _spatialdb_template_earlier:
+
+Creating a spatial database template for earlier versions
+---------------------------------------------------------
 
-Creating a spatial database template for PostGIS
-------------------------------------------------
+If you have an earlier version of PostGIS or PostgreSQL, the CREATE
+EXTENSION isn't available and you need to create the spatial database
+using the following instructions.
 
 Creating a spatial database with PostGIS is different than normal because
 additional SQL must be loaded to enable spatial functionality.  Because of
@@ -540,7 +560,7 @@ user.  For example, you can use the following to become the ``postgres`` user::
 Once you're a database super user, then you may execute the following commands
 to create a PostGIS spatial database template::
 
-    $ POSTGIS_SQL_PATH=`pg_config --sharedir`/contrib/postgis-1.5
+    $ POSTGIS_SQL_PATH=`pg_config --sharedir`/contrib/postgis-2.0
     # Creating the template spatial database.
     $ createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
     $ createlang -d template_postgis plpgsql # Adding PLPGSQL language support.
@@ -1083,7 +1103,7 @@ Afterwards, the ``/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3`` script should be used to manage
 the starting and stopping of PostgreSQL.
 
 In addition, the SQL files for PostGIS are placed in a different location on
-Debian 5.0 . Thus when :ref:`spatialdb_template` either:
+Debian 5.0 . Thus when :ref:`spatialdb_template_earlier` either:
 
 * Create a symbolic link to these files:
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.5.txt b/docs/releases/1.5.txt
index c39592122b..41fb2882a7 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.5.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.5.txt
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ GeoDjango
 
 * The wkb and hex properties of `GEOSGeometry` objects preserve the Z dimension.
 
-* Support for GDAL < 1.5 has been dropped.
+* Support for PostGIS 2.0 has been added and support for GDAL < 1.5 has been
+  dropped.
 
 Minor features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~