[postgis-users] Early Special: 1.0.0 Released

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Awesome job guys!

I have a question on upgrading because I have never done that before. 
I'm on FreeBSD and use the portsupgrade utility so it just pretty much 
happens. The problem with this is I don't have access to an of the new 
info until after the upgrade (I should browse CVS I guess).

My question is do I need to do the dump before the upgrade? or is the 
dump utility smart enough to dump the old format also. And if so, what 
is the command I should use to do the dump the  tables?

Thanks,
   -Steve W.

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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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