[postgis-users] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 and 8.4.1 out

[P Kishor]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> Just in case some people don't know.
>
> PostgreSQL 8.3.8 and 8.4.1 came out last week and while they are mostly
> security bug fixes, they do include some speed enhancements.
>

I have PostGIS 1.4/PostGres 8.4. What is the recommended way of
upgrading this combo? Do I have to recompile PostGres and then PostGIS
again? Do I have to rebuild my databases? Is there a
tutorial/knowledgebase article on the various upgrade paths possible?


> For 8.4.1 -- "improve performance when processing toasted values in index
> scans"
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> Which fixes the below bug.
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> http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2009-August/006659.ht
> ml
> (though I guess it wasn't backported to 8.3 since I don't see it listed in
> 8.3.8 release notes)
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-1.html
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> For both 8.3.8, 8.4.1 -- has for "Fix Windows shared-memory allocation "
> This bug led to the often-reported "could not reattach to shared memory"
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-8.html
>
> Hope that helps,
> Regina
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