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PostGIS 3.3.0alpha1

release 3.3

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.3.0alpha1! This is the first release to support PostgreSQL 15. Best Served with PostgreSQL 15 Beta1. This release supports PostgreSQL 11-15.

3.3.0alpha1

This release is an alpha of a major release, it includes bug fixes since PostGIS 3.2.1 and new features.

Breaking changes

  • Drop support for PostgreSQL 9.6 and 10 (Regina Obe)
  • Change output for WKT MULTIPOINT. All points now wrapped in parens. (Even Roualt)
  • GH674, geometry validation and fixing is disabled for ST_DumpAsPolygons and ST_Polygon so it works faster but might produce invalid polygons. (Aliaksandr Kalenik)

Enhancements

  • #2861, Add index on topology.node(containing_face) speeding up splitting and merging of faces (Sandro Santilli)
  • #2083, Speed up ST_RemEdge topology functions adding index on relation(element_id) and edge_data(abs_next*) (Sandro Santilli)
  • #5118, Allow dropping topologies with missing topogeometry sequences (Sandro Santilli)
  • #5111, faster topology face MBR computation (Sandro Santilli)
  • postgis_extensions_upgrade() support for upgrades from any PostGIS version, including yet to be released ones (Sandro Santilli)
  • #5040, add postgis_sfcgal_full_version (Loïc Bartoletti)
  • GH655, GiST: balance the tree splits better in recursive calls (Darafei Praliaskouski)
  • GH657, GiST: do not call no-op decompress function (Aliaksandr Kalenik)
  • #4912, GiST: fix crash on STORAGE EXTERNAL for geography (Aliaksandr Kalenik)
  • ST_ConcaveHull GEOS 3.11+ native implementation (Paul Ramsey, Martin Davis)
  • #4574, GH678, #5121 Enable Link-Time Optimizations using –enable-lto (Sergei Shoulbakov)
  • GH676, faster ST_Clip (Aliaksandr Kalenik)
  • #5135, Fast GiST index build is enabled by default for PostgreSQL 15+ (Sergei Shoulbakov)

New features

  • #5116, Topology export/import scripts (Sandro Santilli)
  • ST_Letters creates geometries that look like letters (Paul Ramsey)
  • #5037, postgis_sfcgal: ST_3DConvexHull (Loïc Bartoletti)
  • postgis_sfcgal: sfcgal_full_version - reports BOOST and CGAL version (Loïc Bartoletti)
  • GH659, MARC21/XML, ST_GeomFromMARC21, ST_AsMARC21 (Jim Jones)
  • #5132, GH683, sfcgal: ST_3DUnion aggregate function (Sergei Shoulbakov)
  • #5143, SFCGAL ST_AlphaShape and ST_OptimalAlphaShape (Loïc Bartoletti)

Bug Fixes

  • #5100, Support for PostgreSQL 15 (atoi removal) (Laurenz Albe)
  • #5123, Support for PostgreSQL 15 - PG15 now exposes json types and functions, do not include for PG15+ (Regina Obe)
  • #5088, Memory corruption in mvt_agg_transfn (Victor Collod)
  • #5137, resetting interrupt flags before query execution (Sergei Shoulbakov)
  • #5148, ST_Clip is more robust to alignment of raster and clip geometry (Sergei Shoulbakov)

Upgrading

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade:

For PostGIS 3.2, 3.1, 3.0 do below which will upgrade all your postgis extensions.

SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

For PostGIS 2.5 and below do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();
SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();

If you come across any issues, feel free to report via our ticket tracker or mailing list with details

View all tickets for 3.3.0alpha1 milestone.