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+DROP DATABASE "nidus-sync";
+-- ALTER DATABASE "nidus-sync" OWNER TO $1;
+CREATE DATABASE "nidus-sync" WITH OWNER $1;
+GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE "nidus-sync" TO $1;
+\c nidus-sync;
+CREATE EXTENSION h3;
+CREATE EXTENSION h3_postgis CASCADE;
+CREATE EXTENSION hstore;
+CREATE SCHEMA import;
+ALTER SCHEMA import OWNER TO $1;
+GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA import TO "tegola";
+GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA publicreport TO "tegola";
+GRANT SELECT ON publicreport.report_location TO "tegola";
+GRANT SELECT ON h3_aggregation to "tegola";
+GRANT SELECT ON import.district TO "tegola";
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA public TO $1;
+-- do import of district data
+ALTER TABLE import.district ADD COLUMN geom_4326 geometry(MultiPolygon,4326) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (ST_Transform(geom, 4326)) STORED;