[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.1.0 released

Paul Ramsey pramsey at opengeo.org
Tue Aug 27 10:49:56 PDT 2013


We could re-certify against SFSQL, since it's a trivial compliance
test, but we'd then have to pay a fee to advertise the fact we passed.
And we'd still have to recertify with every release if we wanted to be
"official" about it. It seems a waste of effort, by and large.

P.

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> The short-answer our compliance is more self-testing and self regulation. We
> count on our users to complain and are more user and common sense driven
> than anything.  :).
>
> ---------- Longer answer ---
> PostGIS hasn't had a conformance/compliance certificate since I think
> PostGIS 1.2 or 1.3.  Perhaps Paul remembers the exact version.
> We do try to comply with the SQL/MM (I forget which version) from 2.0+, but
> I believe those cost money for complete conformance compliance checking as
> well as the energy to get yourself on the compliance block.
>
> There are some things we have which don't follow any standards compliance --
> raster (tries to follow SQL/MM if only there existed such a thing as SQL/MM
> for raster), geography (which is more or less driven by how Microsfot did
> things -- we liked what we saw and followed their lead), and I think even
> pointcloud that pramsey is working on  for example.  I'm not sure what
> industry spec if any pointcloud follows.
>
> The 3D and 2D stuff I think we are pretty compliant except for the fact 3D
> SQL/MM spec is a moving target. Olivier can speak up for that since he's
> been following the SQL/MM 3D compliant circuit more than any of us.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Regina
> http://www.postgis.us
> http://postgis.net
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Simon Greener
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:56 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 2.1.0 released
>
> Regina,
>
> Congratulations on the release.
>
> Can you let me know what official conformance/compliance certificates
> PostGIS has from the relevant standards bodies or is your compliance more
> self-testing/testing and regulation?
>
> regards
> Simon
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:46:28 +1000, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
>> 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#hardupgrad
>> e
>>
>> 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.htm
>> l#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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