[postgis-users] Re: Test the Future (GEOS 3.1RC2)

[Bruce Rindahl]

What version of postgreSQL is required?
Thanks!
Bruce


Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Are you busy testing the new code? I hope you are!
>
> Want a place in history? I'm looking for a few "testimonials" for the
> final release announcement when 1.4 comes out, so compare your
> production queries on Pg1.3/G3.0 with Pg1.4/G3.1 and report back on
> how much faster things are.
>
> P.
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
>   
>> PostGIS users,
>>
>> I've been blogging over the past several months about some big
>> performance improvements in PostGIS, prepared geometries
>> <http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2008/10/postgis-performance-prepared-geometry.html>
>> and cascaded union
>> <http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2009/01/must-faster-unions-in-postgis-14.html>,
>> which have been brought over from JTS over the past year.
>>
>> What both these features have in common is that they require GEOS 3.1.
>>  We have begun a Release Candidate series for GEOS, and now need
>> testing to ensure it is ready for full release.
>>
>> In order to try these features, you will need.
>>
>> - PostGIS SVN snap (aka 1.4):
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0SVN.tar.gz
>> - GEOS 3.1RC2: http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.1.0rc2.tar.bz2
>>
>> First compile and install GEOS, then PostGIS.
>>
>> The functions that have been sped up include:
>>
>> ST_Union(geometry) aggregate
>> ST_Intersects()
>> ST_Contains()
>> ST_Within()
>> ST_Covers()
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>     
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