[postgis-users] Early Special: 1.0.0 Released

[Eduardo Patto Kanegae]

Hi folks,

Congratulations for the great job!

Is the $postgis/doc/postgis.xml file updated with PostGIS 1.0.0 too?

best.

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
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strk at refractions.net wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:49:09PM -0400, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
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>>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?
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>The online manual show be clear enough, and fixed if is not.
>http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch02.html#upgrading
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>Actually.. there's probably an important note missing, which
>is that the dump phase (first step) must be done *before*
>the new postgis is installed.
>
>The 'make install' command must be given after the dump has
>been produced and *before* the postgis_restore.pl script
>is invoked. Running postgis_restore.pl *before* the new
>postgis library is installed might result in unresolved
>references but since you have the dump you can restore
>again after installing the new one.
>
>VERY IMPORTANT: make your dumps BEFORE installing the
>new postgis !
>
>--strk;
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>>Thanks,
>>  -Steve W.
>>
>>Paul Ramsey wrote:
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>>>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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