diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9f90efa62..6c187793b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,21 +9,17 @@ env:
    - DEBUG=True ENABLE_LOG=True DEFAULT_LOG_SEVERITY=debug XMLPARSER="libxml2" DEMO=False BENCHMARK=False CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS="" CUSTOM_LDFLAGS=""
    - DEBUG=False ENABLE_LOG=False DEFAULT_LOG_SEVERITY=none XMLPARSER="ptree" DEMO=False BENCHMARK=False CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS="" CUSTOM_LDFLAGS=""
 
-addons:
-  postgresql: "9.3"
-
 before_install:
  - nproc
  - free
  # we need at least g++-4.7 for c++11 features
  - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
  # grab more recent gdal/proj
- # breaks due to http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/ticket/39
- #- sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
+ - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
  # more recent boost
  - sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:boost-latest/ppa
  - sudo apt-get update -y
- - sudo apt-get install -y ttf-wqy-microhei libstdc++6 libstdc++-4.8-dev make boost1.55 libgdal-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1h=1.10.0-1~precise1 python-nose libicu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev libwebp-dev libz-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libproj-dev libcairo-dev python-cairo-dev libsqlite3-dev
+ - sudo apt-get install -y ttf-wqy-microhei postgis postgresql-9.1-postgis-2.0-scripts libstdc++6 libstdc++-4.8-dev make boost1.55 libgdal-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1h=1.10.0-1~precise1 python-nose libicu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev libwebp-dev libz-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev libproj-dev libcairo-dev python-cairo-dev libsqlite3-dev
  - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'g++' ]]; then sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8; export CXX="$(which g++-4.8)"; export CC="$(which gcc-4.8)"; fi;
  - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'clang++' ]]; then export CXX="$(which clang++)"; export CC="$(which clang)"; fi;
  - wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-0.9.34.tar.bz2
@@ -33,10 +29,12 @@ before_install:
  - cd ../
 
 install:
- - ./configure CXX="${CXX}" CC="${CC}" CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS="${CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS}" CUSTOM_LDFLAGS="${CUSTOM_LDFLAGS}" XML_PARSER=${XML_PARSER} ENABLE_LOG=${ENABLE_LOG} DEBUG=${DEBUG} DEMO=${DEMO} BENCHMARK=${BENCHMARK} CPP_TESTS=True CAIRO=True FAST=True || cat config.log
+ - ./configure CXX="${CXX}" CC="${CC}" CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS="${CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS}" CUSTOM_LDFLAGS="${CUSTOM_LDFLAGS}" XML_PARSER="${XML_PARSER}" ENABLE_LOG="${ENABLE_LOG}" DEBUG="${DEBUG}" DEMO="${DEMO}" BENCHMARK="${BENCHMARK}" CPP_TESTS=True CAIRO=True FAST=True || cat config.log
  - if [[ "${CXX}" == 'g++-4.8' ]]; then JOBS=2 make; else JOBS=4 make; fi;
 
 before_script:
+ - createdb -EUTF8 template_postgis
+ - psql -c 'create extension postgis' template_postgis
  - make test
 
 script: