[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.2

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Mon Dec 3 11:52:52 PST 2012


The PostGIS development team is happy to release the second patch
version of PostGIS 2, the 2.0.2 release. As befits a patch release,
the focus is on bugs and breakages, and there are a large number of
obscure things that are now better in this release.

http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.0.2.tar.gz


 * Bug Fixes *
  - #1287, Drop of "gist_geometry_ops" broke a few clients
           package of legacy_gist.sql for these cases
  - #1391, Errors during upgrade from 1.5
  - #1828, Poor selectivity estimate on ST_DWithin
  - #1838, error importing tiger/line data
  - #1869, ST_AsBinary is not unique -
           added to legacy_minor/legacy.sql scripts
  - #1885, Missing field from tabblock table in tiger2010 census_loader.sql
  - #1891, Use LDFLAGS environment when building liblwgeom
  - #1899, Enhance toTopoGeom error on unsupported input
  - #1900, Fix pgsql2shp for big-endian systems
  - #1932, Fix raster2pgsql for invalid syntax for setting index tablespace
  - #1936, ST_GeomFromGML on CurvePolygon causes server crash
  - #1955, ST_ModEdgeHeal and ST_NewEdgeHeal for doubly connected edges
  - #1957, ST_Distance to a one-point LineString returns NULL
  - #1976, Geography point-in-ring code overhauled for more reliability
  - #1978, wrong answer calculating length of closed circular arc (circle)
  - #1981, Remove unused but set variables as found with gcc 4.6+
  - #1987, Restore 1.5.x behaviour of ST_Simplify
  - #1989, Preprocess input geometry to just intersection with raster
           to be clipped
  - #1991, geocode really slow on PostgreSQL 9.2
  - #1996, support POINT EMPTY in GeoJSON output
  - #1998, Fix ST_{Mod,New}EdgeHeal joining edges sharing both endpoints
  - #2001, ST_CurveToLine has no effect if the geometry doesn't actually
           contain an arc
  - #2015, ST_IsEmpty('POLYGON(EMPTY)') returns False
  - #2019, ST_FlipCoordinates does not update bbox
  - #2025, Fix side location conflict at TopoGeo_AddLineString
  - #2062, improve performance of distance calculations
  - #2033, Fix adding a splitting point into a 2.5d topology
  - #2051, Fix excess of precision in ST_AsGeoJSON output
  - #2052, Fix buffer overflow in lwgeom_to_geojson
  - #2056, Fixed lack of SRID check of raster and geometry in ST_SetValue()
  - #2057, Fixed linking issue for raster2psql to libpq
  - #2060, Fix "dimension" check violation by GetTopoGeomElementArray
  - #2072, Removed outdated checks preventing ST_Intersects(raster) from
           working on out-db bands
  - #2077, Fixed incorrect answers from ST_Hillshade(raster)
  - #2092, Namespace issue with ST_GeomFromKML,ST_GeomFromGML for libxml 2.8+
  - #2099, Fix double free on exception in ST_OffsetCurve
  - #2100, ST_AsRaster() may not return raster with specified pixel type
  - #2108, Ensure ST_Line_Interpolate_Point always returns POINT
  - #2109, Ensure ST_Centroid always returns POINT
  - #2117, Ensure ST_PointOnSurface always returns POINT
  - #2129, Fix SRID in ST_Homogenize output with collection input
  - #2130, Fix memory error in MultiPolygon GeoJson parsing

  - Update URL of Maven jar


 * Enhancements *
  - #1581, ST_Clip(raster, ...) no longer imposes NODATA on a band if the
           corresponding band from the source raster did not have NODATA
  - #1928, Accept array properties in GML input multi-geom input
    (Kashif Rasul and Shoaib Burq / SpacialDB)
  - #2082, Add indices on start_node and end_node of topology edge tables
  - #2087, Speedup topology.GetRingEdges using a recursive CTE


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