[postgis-users] Early Special: 1.0.0 Released

[Gérald Fenoy]

Hi Paul,
the lastest ebuild have been done and tests also. There is the log file 
here : http://01map.net/gentoo/logs/emerge.postgis-1.0.0.log.
The lastest gis port on gentoo (known as "portage.01map") is available 
for download here : 
http://01map.net/gentoo/portage.01map-20-04-2005.tar.bz2 .

Enjoy.



Le 20 avr. 05, à 18:44, Paul Ramsey a écrit :

> Just for you list'ers an early announcement of 1.0.0:
>
> After a long series of release candidates, the much anticipated 1.0.0 
> version of PostGIS has been released. The 1.0.0 version includes 
> substantial changes over the original 0.X series, most importantly a 
> new on-disk format which is both more compact and faster to access. 
> The 1.0.0 version is compatible with PostgreSQL 7.2 and higher, but is 
> most tighhtly integrated with the PostgreSQL 8.0 and higher releases.
>
> New features in 1.0.0 include:
>
>     * Smaller and faster on-disk formats
>     * Improved selectivity estimates, including support for join 
> selectivity and sub-selects
>     * Hex-based canonical format, for driftless dump and restore
>     * 4-D geometries
>     * New functions:
>           o Polygonize
>           o AsGML
>           o ForceRHR
>           o SnapToGrid
>           o Geometry Constructors
>     * Improved JDBC interface with jdbc2 support
>     * 64-bit platform support
>     * Performance improvements for common boolean operators
>
> Current users of PostGIS will want to read the README file on 
> upgrading with particular attention to the use of the 
> utils/postgis_restore.pl script.
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