[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.1.0 released
René Fournier
m5 at renefournier.com
Fri Aug 23 11:42:16 PDT 2013
Ditto for the MacPorts version. Would love to see PostGIS 2.1 under MacPorts soon!
On 2013-08-23, at 9:42 AM, Mathieu Basille <basille.web at ase-research.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is great news! Congrats to all PostGIS developers, you're providing us with an amazing tool!
>
> Any idea weather the new 2.1.0 will be made available in the PostgreSQL
> APT repository for Debian and Ubuntu? [1]
> I'm a happy user of this repository under Debian Jessie (which currently hosts PostGIS 2.0.3), and I'd be happy if the new PostGIS would be released there!
>
> Thanks again!
> Mathieu.
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt
>
>
> Le 08/17/2013 09:46 PM, Paragon Corporation a écrit :
>> The 2.1.0 release of PostGIS is now available.
>> http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.0.tar.gz
>>
>> The PostGIS development team is proud to release PostGIS 2.1.0. As befits a
>> minor release, the focus is on speed improvements, more features, and bug
>> fixes.
>>
>> If you are currently using PostGIS 2.0+, you can go the soft upgrade path:
>>
>> ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE TO "2.1.0";
>>
>>
>> If you are running 2.1.0 of beta or an unreleased version (and the above
>> step fails with error "extension postgis has no update path from version
>> x.x.x to version 2.1.0") , you need to first copy the file in
>> share\extensions\postgis-2.0.3-2.1.0.sql and change the 2.0.3 to the x.x.x
>> noted in the error you are running. Then follow the above upgrade step
>> again.
>>
>> Users of 1.5 and below will need to go the hard-upgrade path documented in
>> manual:
>> http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/postgisinstallation.html#hardupgrade
>>
>> Best served with a bottle of GEOS 3.4.1 and PostgreSQL 9.3beta2 (planned
>> 9.1.0 release is September).
>>
>> http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.0.tar.gz
>>
>> html doc: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/doc-html-2.1.0.tar.gz
>> pdf doc: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.1.0.pdf
>> epub doc: http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/docs/postgis-2.1.0.epub
>>
>> This release contains a ton of speed improvements, function additions, and
>> super sexy new features. It has been over a year in the making.
>>
>> New functions itemized in
>> http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/PostGIS_Special_Functions_Index.html#NewF
>> unctions21
>>
>> Important / Breaking Changes
>>
>> #1653, Removed srid parameter from ST_Resample(raster) and variants with
>> reference raster no longer apply reference raster's SRID.
>> #1962 ST_Segmentize* As a result of the introduction of geography
>> support, The construct: SELECT ST_Segmentize('LINESTRING(1 2, 3 4)',0.5);
>> will result in ambiguous function error
>> #2026, ST_Union(raster) now unions all bands of all rasters
>> #2089, liblwgeom: lwgeomsethandlers replaces lwgeominitallocators.
>> #2150, regularblocking is no longer a constraint. column of same name in
>> rastercolumns now checks for existance of spatiallyunique and coveragetile
>> constraints
>> ST_Intersects(raster, geometry) behaves in the same manner as
>> ST_Intersects(geometry, raster).
>> point variant of ST_SetValue(raster) previously did not check SRID of
>> input geometry and raster.
>> ST_Hillshade parameters azimuth and altitude are now in degrees instead
>> of radians.
>> ST_Slope and ST_Aspect return pixel values in degrees instead of
>> radians.
>>
>> Deprecated signatures
>>
>> #2104, ST_World2RasterCoord, ST_World2RasterCoordX and
>> ST_World2RasterCoordY renamed to ST_WorldToRasterCoord,
>> ST_WorldToRasterCoordX and ST_WorldToRasterCoordY. ST_Raster2WorldCoord,
>> ST_Raster2WorldCoordX and ST_Raster2WorldCoordY renamed to
>> ST_RasterToWorldCoord, ST_RasterToWorldCoordX and ST_RasterToWorldCoordY
>> ST_Estimated_Extent renamed to ST_EstimatedExtent
>> ST_LineInterpolatePoint renamed to ST_LineInterpolatePoint
>> ST_Line_Substring renamed to ST_LineSubstring
>> ST_LineLocatePoint renamed to ST_LineLocatePoint
>> ST_Force_XXX renamed to ST_ForceXXX
>> ST_MapAlgebraFctNgb and 1 and 2 raster variants of ST_MapAlgebraFct. Use
>> ST_MapAlgebra instead
>> 1 and 2 raster variants of ST_MapAlgebraExpr. Use expression variants of
>> ST_MapAlgebra instead
>>
>> New Features
>>
>> #310, ST_DumpPoints converted to a C function - much faster (Nathan
>> Wagner)
>> #739, UpdateRasterSRID()
>> #945, improved join selectivity, N-D selectivity calculations, user
>> accessible selectivity and stats reader functions for testing (Paul Ramsey /
>> OpenGeo)
>> toTopoGeom with TopoGeometry sink (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality)
>> clearTopoGeom (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality)
>> ST_Segmentize(geography) (Paul Ramsey / OpenGeo)
>> ST_DelaunayTriangles (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality)
>> ST_NearestValue, ST_Neighborhood (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> ST_PixelAsPoint, ST_PixelAsPoints (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> ST_PixelAsCentroid, ST_PixelAsCentroids (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> ST_Raster2WorldCoord, ST_World2RasterCoord (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> Additional raster/raster spatial relationship functions
>> (ST_Contains, ST_ContainsProperly, ST_Covers, ST_CoveredBy, ST_Disjoint,
>> ST_Overlaps, ST_Touches, ST_Within, ST_DWithin, ST_DFullyWithin) (Bborie
>> Park / UC Davis)
>> Added array variants of ST_SetValues() to set many pixel values of a
>> band in one call (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> #1293, ST_Resize(raster) to resize rasters based upon width/height
>> #1627, package tiger_geocoder as a PostgreSQL extension
>> #1643, #2076, Upgrade tiger geocoder to support loading tiger 2011
>> and 2012 (Regina Obe / Paragon Corporation) Funded by Hunter Systems Group
>> GEOMETRYCOLLECTION support for ST_MakeValid (Sandro Santilli /
>> Vizzuality)
>> #1709, ST_NotSameAlignmentReason(raster, raster)
>> #1818, ST_GeomFromGeoHash and friends (Jason Smith (darkpanda))
>> #1856, reverse geocoder rating setting for prefer numbered highway
>> name
>> ST_PixelOfValue (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> Casts to/from PostgreSQL geotypes (point/path/polygon).
>> Added geomval array variant of ST_SetValues() to set many pixel
>> values of a band using a set of geometries and corresponding values in one
>> call (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> ST_Tile(raster) to break up a raster into tiles (Bborie Park / UC
>> Davis)
>> #1895, new r-tree node splitting algorithm (Alex Korotkov)
>> #2011, ST_DumpValues to output raster as array (Bborie Park / UC
>> Davis)
>> #2018, ST_Distance support for CircularString, CurvePolygon,
>> MultiCurve, MultiSurface, CompoundCurve
>> #2030, n-raster (and n-band) ST_MapAlgebra (Bborie Park / UC Davis)
>> #2193, Utilize PAGC parser as drop in replacement for tiger
>> normalizer (Steve Woodbridge, Regina Obe)
>> #2210, ST_MinConvexHull(raster)
>> lwgeomfromgeojson in liblwgeom (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality)
>> #1687, ST_Simplify for TopoGeometry (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality)
>> #2228, TopoJSON output for TopoGeometry (Sandro Santilli /
>> Vizzuality)
>> #2123, ST_FromGDALRaster
>> #613, ST_SetGeoReference with numerical parameters instead of text
>> #2276, ST_AddBand(raster) variant for out-db bands
>> #2280, ST_Summary(raster)
>> #2163, ST_TPI for raster (Nathaniel Clay)
>> #2164, ST_TRI for raster (Nathaniel Clay)
>> #2302, ST_Roughness for raster (Nathaniel Clay)
>> #2290, ST_ColorMap(raster) to generate RGBA bands
>> #2254, Add SFCGAL backend support. (Backend selection throught
>> postgis.backend var) Functions available both throught GEOS or SFCGAL:
>> ST_Intersects, ST_3DIntersects, ST_Intersection, ST_Area, ST_Distance,
>> ST_3DDistance New functions available only with SFCGAL backend:
>> ST_3DIntersection, ST_Tesselate, ST_3DArea, ST_Extrude, ST_ForceLHR
>> ST_Orientation, ST_Minkowski, ST_StraightSkeleton postgissfcgalversion New
>> function available in PostGIS: ST_ForceSFS (Olivier Courtin and Hugo Mercier
>> / Oslandia)
>>
>> Enhancements
>>
>> #823, tiger geocoder: Make loadergeneratescript download portion less
>> greedy
>> #826, raster2pgsql no longer defaults to padding tiles. Flag -P can be
>> used to pad tiles
>> #1363, ST_AddBand(raster, .) array version rewritten in C
>> #1364, ST_Union(raster, .) aggregate function rewritten in C
>> #1655, Additional default values for parameters of ST_Slope
>> #1661, Add aggregate variant of ST_SameAlignment
>> #1719, Add support for Point and GeometryCollection ST_MakeValid inputs
>> #1780, support ST_GeoHash for geography
>> #1796, Big performance boost for distance calculations in geography
>> #1802, improved function interruptibility.
>> #1823, add parameter in ST_AsGML to use id column for GML 3 output
>> (become mandatory since GML 3.2.1)
>> #1856, tiger geocoder: reverse geocoder rating setting for prefer
>> numbered highway name
>> #1938, Refactor basic ST_AddBand to add multiple new bands in one call
>> #1978, wrong answer when calculating length of a closed circular arc
>> (circle)
>> #1989, Preprocess input geometry to just intersection with raster to be
>> clipped
>> #2021, Added multi-band support to ST_Union(raster, .) aggregate
>> function
>> #2006, better support of ST_Area(geography) over poles and dateline
>> #2065, ST_Clip(raster, .) now a C function
>> #2069, Added parameters to ST_Tile(raster) to control padding of tiles
>> #2078, New variants of ST_Slope, ST_Aspect and ST_HillShade to provide
>> solution to handling tiles in a coverage
>> #2097, Added RANGE uniontype option for ST_Union(raster)
>> #2105, Added ST_Transform(raster) variant for aligning output to
>> reference raster
>> #2119, Rasters passed to ST_Resample(), ST_Rescale(), ST_Reskew(), and
>> ST_SnapToGrid() no longer require an SRID
>> #2141, More verbose output when constraints fail to be added to a raster
>> column
>> #2143, Changed blocksize constraint of raster to allow multiple values
>> #2148, Addition of coverage_tile constraint for raster
>> #2149, Addition of spatially_unique constraint for raster
>> TopologySummary output now includes unregistered layers and a count of
>> missing TopoGeometry objects from their natural layer.
>> ST_HillShade(), ST_Aspect() and ST_Slope() have one new optional
>> parameter to interpolate NODATA pixels before running the operation.
>> Point variant of ST_SetValue(raster) is now a wrapper around geomval
>> variant of ST_SetValues(rast).
>> Proper support for raster band's isnodata flag in core API and loader.
>> Additional default values for parameters of ST_Aspect and ST_HillShade
>> #2178, ST_Summary now advertises presence of known srid with an [S] flag
>> #2202, Make libjson-c optional (-without-json configure switch)
>> #2213, Add support libjson-c 0.10+
>> #2231, raster2pgsql supports user naming of filename column with -n
>> #2200, ST_Union(raster, uniontype) unions all bands of all rasters
>> #2264, postgis_restore.pl support for restoring into databases with
>> postgis in a custom schema
>> #2244, emit warning when changing raster's georeference if raster has
>> out-db bands
>> #2222, add parameter OutAsIn to flag whether ST_AsBinary should return
>> out-db bands as in-db bands
>>
>> Fixes
>>
>> #1839, handling of subdatasets in GeoTIFF in raster2pgsql.
>> #1840, fix logic of when to compute # of tiles in raster2pgsql.
>> #1870, align the docs and actual behavior of raster's ST_Intersects
>> #1872, fix ST_ApproxSummarystats to prevent division by zero
>> #1875, ST_SummaryStats returns NULL for all parameters except count when
>> count is zero
>> #1932, fix raster2pgsql of syntax for index tablespaces
>> #1936, ST_GeomFromGML on CurvePolygon causes server crash
>> #1939, remove custom data types: summarystats, histogram, quantile,
>> valuecount
>> #1951, remove crash on zero-length linestrings
>> #1957, ST_Distance to a one-point LineString returns NULL
>> #1976, Geography point-in-ring code overhauled for more reliability
>> #1981, cleanup of unused variables causing warnings with gcc 4.6+
>> #1996, support POINT EMPTY in GeoJSON output
>> #2062, improve performance of distance calculations
>> #2057, Fixed linking issue for raster2psql to libpq
>> #2077, Fixed incorrect values returning from ST_Hillshade()
>> #2019, ST_FlipCoordinates does not update bbox
>> #2100, ST_AsRaster may not return raster with specified pixel type
>> #2126, Better handling of empty rasters from ST_ConvexHull()
>> #2165, ST_NumPoints regression failure with CircularString
>> #2168, ST_Distance is not always commutative
>> #2182, Fix issue with outdb rasters with no SRID and ST_Resize
>> #2188, Fix function parameter value overflow that caused problems when
>> copying data from a GDAL dataset
>> #2198, Fix incorrect dimensions used when generating bands of out-db
>> rasters in ST_Tile()
>> #2201, ST_GeoHash wrong on boundaries
>> #2203, Changed how rasters with unknown SRID and default geotransform
>> are handled when passing to GDAL Warp API
>> #2215, Fixed raster exclusion constraint for conflicting name of
>> implicit index
>> #2251, Fix bad dimensions when rescaling rasters with default
>> geotransform matrix
>> #2133, Fix performance regression in expression variant of ST_MapAlgebra
>> #2257, GBOX variables not initialized when testing with empty geometries
>> #2271, Prevent parallel make of raster
>> #2282, Fix call to undefined function ndstatsto_grid() in debug mode
>> #2307, ST_MakeValid outputs invalid geometries
>> #2309, Remove confusing INFO message when trying to get SRS info
>> #2336, FIPS 20 (KS) causes wildcard expansion to wget all files
>> #2348, Provide raster upgrade path for 2.0 to 2.1
>> #2351, ST_distance between geographies wrong
>> #2359, Fix handling of schema name when adding overview constraints
>> #2371, Support GEOS versions with more than 1 digit in micro
>> #2383, Remove unsafe use of ' from raster warning message
>> #2384, Incorrect variable datatypes for ST_Neighborhood
>>
>> Known Issues
>>
>> #2111, Raster bands can only reference the first 256 bands of out-db
>> rasters
>>
>> Happy querying,
>> Team PostGIS
>>
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