PostGIS Development Blog

PostGIS 2.5.0alpha

Regina Obe — 2018-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 2.5.0alpha.

This release is a work in progress, and some features are still slated to be added. Although this release will work for PostgreSQL 9.4 and above, to take full advantage of what PostGIS 2.5 will offer, you should be running PostgreSQL 11beta+.

Best served with PostgreSQL 11beta which was recently released.

View all closed tickets for 2.5.0.

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade, make sure to do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you use the other extensions packaged with postgis — make sure to upgrade those as well

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;

If you use legacy.sql or legacy_minimal.sql, make sure to rerun the version packaged with these releases.

2.5.0alpha

PostGIS Patch Releases 2.2.7, 2.3.7, and 2.4.4

Regina Obe — 2018-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix release 2.2.7, 2.3.7 and 2.4.4 for the 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 stable branches.

Please note that PostGIS 2.2 is reaching end-of-life and there will be one more patch release later in the year for it. If you have not upgraded to at least PostGIS 2.3, we encourage you do so before we discontinue support for PostGIS 2.2.

View all closed tickets for 2.4.4, 2.3.7, 2.2.7.

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade, make sure to do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you use the other extensions packaged with postgis — make sure to upgrade those as well

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;

If you use legacy.sql or legacy_minimal.sql, make sure to rerun the version packaged with these releases.

2.2.7

2.3.7

2.4.4

PostGIS Patch Releases 2.3.6 and 2.4.3

Regina Obe — 2018-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix release 2.3.6 and 2.4.3 for the 2.3 and 2.4 stable branches.

Key fixes in these releases are Brin upgrade, ST_Transform schema qualification to fix issues with restore, foreign table, and materialized view use, ClusterKMeans and encoded polyline fixes.

View all closed tickets for 2.4.3 and 2.3.6.

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade, make sure to do:

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you use the other extensions packaged with postgis — make sure to upgrade those as well

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;

If you use legacy.sql or legacy_minimal.sql, make sure to rerun the version packaged with these releases.

2.3.6

2.4.3

PostGIS Patch Releases

Paul Ramsey — 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team has uploaded bug fix releases for the 2.3 and 2.4 stable branches.

2.3.5

2.4.2

Move PostGIS extension to a different schema

Regina Obe — 2017-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

As of PostGIS 2.3, the postgis extension was changed to no longer allow relocation. All function calls within the extension are now schema qualified.

While this change fixed some issues with database restore, it created the issue of if you installed PostGIS in a schema other than the one you wanted to it is not intuitive how to move it to a different schema. Luckily there is a way to do this.

For this exercise, I will install PostGIS in the default schema and then demonstrate how to move it into another schema location.

You can run these steps using psql or pgAdmin or any other PostgreSQL tool you want.

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PostGIS Patch Releases

Paul Ramsey — 2017-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team has uploaded bug fix releases for the 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 stable branches.

2.2.6

2.3.4

2.4.1

PostGIS 2.4.0 Released

Regina Obe — 2017-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0. Best served with PostgreSQL 10rc1 and pgRouting 2.5.0. See the full list of changes in the news file.

IMPORTANT NOTES

If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after installing PostGIS binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE;

In order to have Map Box Vector Tiles support enabled, you’ll need to compile with protobuf support and pkg-config to verify the correct minimum version of protobuf-c see protobuf for details. ST_FrechetDistance function will not be enabled if PostGIS is compiled with lower than GEOS 3.7.0. GEOS 3.7.0 is not released yet but is expected sometime next month.

Source Download
html doc download (this version includes Japanese, German, Portuguese, and Korean translation files)
pdf doc download
epub doc download
ChangeLog
pgsql help files for non-english languages: ja, de, br, ko_KR

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PostGIS 2.4.0rc3 Released

Regina Obe — 2017-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0rc3. Best served with PostgreSQL 10rc1 and pgRouting 2.5.0. See the full list of changes in the news file.

This will be the final rc before we have our 2.4.0 release.

We encourage everyone to test and in particular package maintainers to ensure no surprises at final release time.

IMPORTANT NOTES

If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after installing PostGIS binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE;

Source Download
html doc download (this version includes Japanese, German, Portugese and Korean single html files)
pdf doc download
epub doc download
pgsql help files for non-english languages: ja, de, br, ko_KR
ChangeLog

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PostGIS 2.4.0rc2 Released

Regina Obe — 2017-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0rc2. Best served with PostgreSQL 10rc1 and pgRouting 2.5.0. See the full list of changes in the news file.

We encourage everyone to test and in particular package maintainers to insure no surprises at final release time.

IMPORTANT NOTES

If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after installing PostGIS binaries to do.

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;

— if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too

ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE;
ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE;

Source Download
html doc download (this version includes Japanese, German, Portugese and Korean single html files)
pdf doc download
epub doc download
pgsql help files for non-english languages: ja, de, br, ko_KR
ChangeLog

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PostGIS 2.1.9 Released

Paul Ramsey — 2017-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

The PostGIS development team has uploaded the final release of the PostGIS 2.1 branch. The 2.1 branch is now end-of-life. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.

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