Updated the comment about the two PostGIS SQL scripts. I actually know what they...

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 # support to the database.
 #
 # At that point, we import the two PostGIS files, lwpostgis.sql and
-# spatial_ref_sys.sql. These are magic as far as I'm concerned, but
-# PostGIS requires them.
+# spatial_ref_sys.sql. The lwpostgis.sql file contains the geometry
+# functions, while spatial_ref_sys.sql contains a table of SRIDs, and
+# their associated properties. PostGIS requires both.
 #
 # Then, we import the Tiger data using shp2pgsql. The shapefiles
 # should exist, since this task depends on the "data" task, which