PostGIS 3.0.0rc2

The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.0rc2. This will be the final RC before release.

This release works with PostgreSQL 9.5-12 and GEOS >= 3.6

Best served with PostgreSQL 12 , GEOS 3.8.0 and pgRouting 3.0.0-alpha.

3.0.0rc2

• source download
• NEWS
• PDF docs en de
• html doc download
• html online en, de, ko_KR, ja
• epub doc download
• Changelog

View all closed tickets for 3.0.0.

Main changes since PostGIS 3.0.0rc1 release are as follows:

• 4534, Fix leak in lwcurvepoly_from_wkb_state (Raúl Marín)
• 4536, Fix leak in lwcollection_from_wkb_state (Raúl Marín)
• 4537, Fix leak in WKT collection parser (Raúl Marín)
• 4535, WKB: Avoid buffer overflow (Raúl Marín)

Note that a major change in 3.0 is that the raster functionality has been broken out as a separate extension. If you are upgrading from a previous edition, do the following:

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

ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
-* this next step repackages raster in its own extension
-* and upgrades all your other related postgis extension
SELECT PostGIS_Extensions_Upgrade();

--if you don't use raster, you can do
DROP EXTENSION postgis_raster;

-* New users

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_raster;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder;

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