PostGIS 3.1.6

Jul 20, 2022 release 3.1

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.1.6! This release works for PostgreSQL 9.6-14.

This release is a bug fix release, addressing issues found in the previous 3.1 releases.

Bug Fixes

#4835, Occasional distance errors in polar area (Paul Ramsey)
#5152, Fix infinite loop with ST_Split (Sandro Santilli)
#5120, Fix not-null result from ST_EstimatedExtent against truncated tables with spatial index (Sandro Santilli)
#5076, Avoid log storm installed with pgaudit enabled (Paul Ramsey)
#5100, Stop using pg_atoi, removed in PG 15 (Laurenz Albe)
#5115, Allow dropping topologies with pending constraints (Sandro Santilli)
#5151, ST_SetPoint with empty geometries (Regina Obe)
#5150, Change signature of AddToSearchPath (Regina Obe)
#5125, Fix search path function (Sandro Santilli)
#5155, More schema qual fixes (Regina Obe)
#5114, Crash with long column names in pgsql2shp (Paul Ramsey)
#4541, ST_ConcaveHull returns a “geometrycollection” type instead of the expected “polygon” (Regina Obe)
#5154, raster ST_Value is undercosted (Regina Obe)

After installing the binaries or after running pg_upgrade:

For PostGIS 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