[OSM-dev] troubles importing osm data via osm2pgsql: skipping table creation, no function match, permission issue?

[Christopher Stevens]

OS: Mac OSX 10.6

Terminal output:
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$ time /usr/local/bin/osm2pgsql --slim -d gis
/users/chris/Desktop/coloradoOSM/colorado.osm.highway
osm2pgsql SVN version 0.69-exported

Using projection SRS 900913 (Spherical Mercator)
Setting up table: planet_osm_point
NOTICE:  table "planet_osm_point" does not exist, skipping
NOTICE:  table "planet_osm_point_tmp" does not exist, skipping
SELECT AddGeometryColumn('planet_osm_point', 'way', 900913, 'POINT', 2 );
 failed: ERROR:  function addgeometrycolumn(unknown, unknown, integer,
unknown, integer) does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT AddGeometryColumn('planet_osm_point', 'way', 900913, ...
               ^
HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You
might need to add explicit type casts.

Error occurred, cleaning up

real    0m0.190s
user    0m0.004s
sys    0m0.007s
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Initial research suggested that my mac user didn't have proper
privileges. I ran this when setting up my user:
$ psql #reeived an error as I didn't specify a database (FATAL:
database "chris" does not exist), no biggie I think
$ createuser --superuser chris -U postgres

Then created the database:
$ createdb gis

Here's the list of databases and who owns them:
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$ psql -l
        List of databases
   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding
-----------+----------+----------
 gis       | chris    | UTF8
 gisdata   | chris    | UTF8
 postgres  | postgres | UTF8
 template0 | postgres | UTF8
 template1 | postgres | UTF8
(5 rows)
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I even tried importing data after the following:
sudo su  - postgres

No luck. Maybe it's not a permission issue, or I'm missing a step? Let
me know what you think. I appreciate the feedback.

Chris