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Monday, September 20. 2010


PostGIS 1.5.2 coming soon

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Over the past two weeks, the PostGIS development team has been working hard to get out PostGIS 1.5.2 in time for the PostgreSQL 9.0 release. This release contains fixes allowing PostGIS to compile against 9.0. Due to an unfortunate turn of events, we missed the cut by a couple of days and are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the postgis.org website. These should be resolved soon and barring no further difficulties, we should have the final PostGIS 1.5.2 ready late this week.

On the plus side, we do have a PostGIS 1.5.2 rc1 available for download from our PostGIS Wiki Release Candidate Downloads section. Please feel free to test these out so that we have a smooth release.

Paul's related post is here

Here are the details of what is fixed: 

 - This is a bug fix release, addressing issues that have been
   filed since the 1.5.1 release.

 - Bug Fixes
   - Loader: fix handling of empty (0-verticed) geometries in shapefiles.
     (Sandro Santilli)
   - #536, Geography ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_CoveredBy and
     Geometry ST_Equals not using spatial index (Regina Obe, Nicklas Aven)
   - #573, Improvement to ST_Contains geography
   - Loader: Add support for command-q shutdown in Mac GTK build (Paul Ramsey)
   - #393, Loader: Add temporary patch for large DBF files 
     (Maxime Guillaud, Paul Ramsey)  
   - #507, Fix wrong OGC URN in GeoJSON and GML output (Olivier Courtin)
   - spatial_ref_sys.sql Add datum conversion for projection SRID 3021
     (Paul Ramsey)
   - Geography - remove crash for case when all geographies are out of
     the estimate (Paul Ramsey)
   - #469, Fix for array_aggregation error (Greg Stark, Paul Ramsey)
   - #532, Temporary geography tables showing up in other user sessions
     (Paul Ramsey)
   - #562, ST_Dwithin errors for large geographies (Paul Ramsey)
   - #513, shape loading GUI tries to make spatial index when loading DBF only
     mode (Paul Ramsey)
   - #527, shape loading GUI should always append log messages 
     (Mark Cave-Ayland)
   - #504 shp2pgsql should rename xmin/xmax fields (Sandro Santilli)
   - #458 postgis_comments being installed in contrib instead of 
     version folder (Mark Cave-Ayland)
   - #474 Analyzing a table with geography column crashes server
     (Paul Ramsey)
   - #581 LWGEOM-expand produces inconsistent results
     (Mark Cave-Ayland)
   - #471 DocBook dtd errors (Olivier Courtin)
   - Fix further build issues against PostgreSQL 9.0 
     (Mark Cave-Ayland)
   - #572 Password whitespace for Shape File to PostGIS 
     Import not supported (Mark Cave-Ayland)
   - #603 shp2pgsql: "-w" produces invalid WKT for MULTI* objects.
     (Mark Cave-Ayland)
 - Enhancement
   - #513 Add dbf filter to shp2pgsql-gui and allow uploading dbf only
     (Paul Ramsey)

We should have windows binaries available a short time after release. Unfortunately we do not have the 64-bit windows build ready yet, so you still have to use the 32-bit version of PostgreSQL 9.0 if you need PostGIS on windows.

Posted by Leo Hsu and Regina Obe in 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, editor note, postgis at 15:35 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Did someone forget to renew the domain name, or was something more sinister afoot?
As being as I can't get on to the website, maybe you will answer a question for me: in which version was the function st_geomfromewkb added?
#1 Mo Abrahams on 2010-09-21 04:55 (Reply)
Renewal issue nothing sinister.

st_geomfromewkb used to exist by name geomfromewkb pre 1.3 -- the new ST_ got added somewhere in the 1.2.+ something period as I recall.

So in short the function has existed for a while by that or some other name.
#1.1 Regina on 2010-09-21 08:38 (Reply)
And test binaries for PostGIS 1.5.2SVN (r6009) for PostgreSQL 9.0 Windows x64 are available at http://symbiatch.jutut.fi/article/2955 if someone needs them.
#2 Symbiatch (Homepage) on 2010-09-23 14:28 (Reply)
Sami,
Thanks -- I'll post on WIKI and Newsgroup too when get chance.

FYI: We do plan to compile using VC++ in future and PostGIS will also eventually be changing to CMake as well.

The reason we haven't so far is mostly share laziness. We just haven't gone thru setting up our VS to do all of that (and doing the make checks I imagine would be difficult). Prior to 1.4 (or was it 1.3), PostGIS did not compile against VS until Mateusz put in the effort to get it to do so. http://mateusz.loskot.net/2009/03/29/building-postgis-using-visual-cpp/
#2.1 Regina on 2010-09-24 07:16 (Reply)

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