PostGIS 2.2.0 2015/10/07 * Important / Breaking Changes * - PROJ4 4.6 and higher only - #2703, KNN <-> operator now returns the correct distance ordering for all geometry types, not just for points. Code that expects the looser "centroid distance" ordering should be updated. - #3022, ValidateTopology swapped meaning of id1 and id2 for the 'edge crosses node' error (now edge_id,node_id) - #2565, ST_SummaryStats(tablename, rastercolumn, ...) uses ST_SummaryStatsAgg() - #2567, ST_Count(tablename, rastercolumn, ...) uses ST_CountAgg() - #2842, raster - Hide unselectable tables from raster_overview and raster_columns - By default, PostGIS raster disables all GDAL drivers affecting out-db rasters, ST_FromGDALRaster() and ST_AsGDALRaster() variants - #3181, POINT EMPTY is now stored as POINT(NaN NaN) in WKB, instead of as MULTIPOINT EMPTY - Java binding moved to separate repository: https://github.com/postgis/postgis-java * Deprecated signatures * - #2748, ST_Shift_Longitude renamed to ST_ShiftLongitude, ST_Find_Extent renamed to ST_FindExtent, ST_Combine_BBox renamed to ST_CombineBbox, ST_Length_Spheroid renamed to ST_LengthSpheroid, ST_Distance_Spheroid renamed to ST_DistanceSpheroid, ST_Distance_Sphere renamed to ST_DistanceSphere, ST_3DLength_Spheroid deprecated (use ST_LengthSpheroid) - #2769, ST_Mem_Size renamed to ST_MemSize - #2565, ST_SummaryStats(tablename, rastercolumn, ...) - #2567, ST_Count(tablename, rastercolumn, ...) * New Features * - Topology API in liblwgeom (Sandro Santilli / Regione Toscana - SITA) - New lwgeom_version method in liblwgeom - New lwgeom_unaryunion method in liblwgeom - New lwgeom_linemerge method in liblwgeom - New lwgeom_is_simple method in liblwgeom - #3117, Add SFCGAL 1.1 support: add ST_3DDifference, ST_3DUnion, ST_Volume, ST_MakeSolid, ST_IsSolid (Vincent Mora / Oslandia) - #3169, ST_ApproximateMedialAxis (Sandro Santilli) - ST_CPAWithin (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - Add |=| operator with CPA semantic and KNN support with PgSQL 9.5+ (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - #3131, KNN support for the geography type (Paul Ramsey / CartoDB) - #3023, ST_ClusterIntersecting / ST_ClusterWithin (Dan Baston) - #2703, Exact KNN results for all geometry types, aka "KNN re-check" (Paul Ramsey / CartoDB) - #1137, Allow a tolerance value in ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints (Paul Ramsey / CartoDB) - #3062, Allow passing M factor to ST_Scale (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - #3139, ST_BoundingDiagonal (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - #3129, ST_IsValidTrajectory (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - #3128, ST_ClosestPointOfApproach (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - #3152, ST_DistanceCPA (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - Canonical output for index key types - ST_SwapOrdinates (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - #2918, Use GeographicLib functions for geodetics (Mike Toews) - #3074, ST_Subdivide to break up large geometry (Paul Ramsey / CartoDB) - #3040, KNN GiST index based centroid (<<->>) n-D distance operators (Sandro Santilli / Boundless) - Interruptibility API for liblwgeom (Sandro Santilli / CartoDB) - #2939, ST_ClipByBox2D (Sandro Santilli / CartoDB) - #2247, ST_Retile and ST_CreateOverview: in-db raster overviews creation (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) - #899, -m shp2pgsql attribute names mapping -m switch (Regina Obe / Sandro Santilli) - #1678, Added GUC postgis.gdal_datapath to specify GDAL config variable GDAL_DATA - #2843, Support reprojection on raster import (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) - #2349, Support for encoded_polyline input/output (Kashif Rasul) - #2159, report libjson version from postgis_full_version() - #2770, ST_MemSize(raster) - Add postgis_noop(raster) - Added missing variants of ST_TPI(), ST_TRI() and ST_Roughness() - Added GUC postgis.gdal_enabled_drivers to specify GDAL config variable GDAL_SKIP - Added GUC postgis.enable_outdb_rasters to enable access to rasters with out-db bands - #2387, address_standardizer extension as part of PostGIS Stephen Woodbridge (imaptools.com), Walter Sinclair, Regina Obe - #2816, address_standardizer_data_us extension provides reference lex,gaz,rules for address_standardizer Stephen Woodbridge (imaptools.com), Walter Sinclair, Regina Obe - #2341, New mask parameter for ST_MapAlgebra - #2397, read encoding info automatically in shapefile loader - #2430, ST_ForceCurve - #2565, ST_SummaryStatsAgg() - #2567, ST_CountAgg() - #2632, ST_AsGML() support for curved features - #2652, Add --upgrade-path switch to run_test.pl - #2754, sfcgal wrapped as an extension - #2227, Simplification with Visvalingam-Whyatt algorithm ST_SimplifyVW, ST_SetEffectiveArea (Nicklas Avén) - Functions to encode and decode TWKB ST_AsTWKB, ST_GeomFromTWKB (Paul Ramsey / Nicklas Avén / CartoDB) * Enhancements * - #3223, Add memcmp short-circuit to ST_Equals (Daniel Baston) - #3227, Tiger geocoder upgraded to support Tiger 2015 census - #2278, Make liblwgeom compatible between minor releases - #897, ST_AsX3D support for GeoCoordinates and systems "GD" "WE" ability to flip x/y axis (use option = 2, 3) - ST_Split: allow splitting lines by multilines, multipoints and (multi)polygon boundaries - #3070, Simplify geometry type constraint - #2839, Implement selectivity estimator for functional indexes, speeding up spatial queries on raster tables. (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) - #2361, Added spatial_index column to raster_columns view - #2390, Testsuite for pgsql2shp - #2527, Added -k flag to raster2pgsql to skip checking that band is NODATA - #2616, Reduce text casts during topology building and export - #2717, support startpoint, endpoint, pointn, numpoints for compoundcurve - #2747, Add support for GDAL 2.0 - #2754, SFCGAL can now be installed with CREATE EXTENSION Vincent Mora (Oslandia) - #2828, Convert ST_Envelope(raster) from SQL to C - #2829, Shortcut ST_Clip(raster) if geometry fully contains the raster and no NODATA specified - #2906, Update tiger geocoder to handle tiger 2014 data - #3048, Speed up geometry simplification (J.Santana @ CartoDB) - #3092, Slow performance of geometry_columns with many tables * Bug Fixes * - #2893, Allow interruptibility of ST_Segmentize(geometry) (Sandro Santilli / CartoDB) - #2540, Change GUC name for GDAL_DATA to postgis.gdal_datapath - #2777, Raster max extent constraint based upon envelope to behave like geometry extent - #2822, Use @ operator instead of ST_CoveredBy() for raster max extent constraint - #3018, GROUP BY geography sometimes returns duplicate rows - #3020, ST_AddBand out-db bug where height using width value - #3048, shp2pgsql - illegal number format when specific system locale set - #3061, Allow duplicate points in JSON, GML, GML ST_GeomFrom* functions - #3086, ST_DumpValues() crashes backend on cleanup with invalid band indexes * Code refactoring * - Split raster/rt_core/rt_api.c and raster/rt_pg/rt_pg.c files into smaller files for ease of long-term maintenance and development - #1220, lwerror and lwnotice function became internal to liblwgeom
commit 90d62e3a26af09f03028711f9ddb843e1264a8a2 Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> Date: Tue Dec 15 07:25:36 2015 -0500 dev-db/postgis: Version Bump Version bump fixing bug 564502. Bug: 564502 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1
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