revise docs about make installing extensions to note that extensions are now installe...

git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@8816 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee

diff --git a/doc/installation.xml b/doc/installation.xml
index 3b4bb00cfd0d7ef73d9f1373fc76841ce51b5558..1808df23567856189a29157a28d9c00cbab0cd95 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/installation.xml
+++ b/doc/installation.xml
@@ -538,23 +538,13 @@ tar -xvzf postgis-&last_release_version;.tar.gz</programlisting>
          <title>Building PostGIS Extensions and Deploying them</title>
 
          <para>
-               The PostGIS extensions which is usable for PostgreSQL 9.1+, is not yet integrated in the core make install script.
-               To build the extensions, first build PostGIS as usual using the prior section steps.
+               The PostGIS extensions which is usable for PostgreSQL 9.1+, should be automatically installed if you are built against
+               PostgreSQL 9.1+.
          </para>
-
-         <para>
-               <command>cd extensions/postgis
-                       make
-                       make install
-                       cd extensions/postgis_topology
-                       make 
-                       make install
-               </command>
-         </para>
-
-         <para>
-               If you want to install the extensions manually on a separate server different from your development,
-               you need to copy the following files from the extensions folder into the <filename>PostgreSQL / share / extension</filename> folder
+         <para>The extension files will always be the same for the same version of PostGIS regardless of OS, so it is same as long as you
+         have the PostGIS binaries already installed on your servers, to copy over the extension files. </para>
+               <para>If you want to install the extensions manually on a separate server different from your development,
+               You need to copy the following files from the extensions folder into the <filename>PostgreSQL / share / extension</filename> folder
                of your PostgreSQL install as well as the needed binaries for regular PostGIS if you don't have them already on the server.
          </para>
 
@@ -572,6 +562,14 @@ tar -xvzf postgis-&last_release_version;.tar.gz</programlisting>
                  </para>
                </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
+        <para>Once you do that, you should see <varname>postgis</varname>, <varname>postgis_topology</varname> as available extensions in PgAdmin -> extensions.</para>
+        <para>If you are using psql, you can verify that the extensions are installed by running this query:</para>
+        <programlisting>SELECT name 
+FROM pg_available_extensions WHERE name LIKE 'postgis%' ;
+       name
+------------------
+ postgis
+ postgis_topology</programlisting>
        </sect2>