[postgis-users] Early Special: 1.0.0 Released

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:22:41PM -0300, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Congratulations for the great job!
> 
> Is the $postgis/doc/postgis.xml file updated with PostGIS 1.0.0 too?

Sure!
--strk;

> 
> best.
> 
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> 
> strk at refractions.net wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:49:09PM -0400, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>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?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >The online manual show be clear enough, and fixed if is not.
> >http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch02.html#upgrading
> >
> >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;
> >
> > 
> >
> >>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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