From: Sandro Santilli Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:01:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Copy 2.1.0 NEWS section from the 2.1 branch X-Git-Tag: 2.2.0rc1~1333 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3736d8199f6bea7a1dc70b1bce85f9ea9c80378;p=postgis Copy 2.1.0 NEWS section from the 2.1 branch git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@12027 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7c7771abb..65f19c24f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,17 +31,18 @@ PostGIS 2.2.0 - #2493, Fix behavior of ST_DumpValues when passed an empty raster PostGIS 2.1.0 -2013/MM/DD +2013/08/17 * Important / Breaking Changes * - - #1962 ST_Segmentize - As a result of the introduction of geography support: - The construct SELECT ST_Segmentize('LINESTRING(1 2, 3 4)',0.5); - will result in ambiguous function error - - #2089, liblwgeom: lwgeom_set_handlers replaces lwgeom_init_allocators. - #1653, Removed srid parameter from ST_Resample(raster) and variants with reference raster no longer apply reference raster's SRID. + - #1962 ST_Segmentize - As a result of + the introduction of geography support, The construct: + SELECT ST_Segmentize('LINESTRING(1 2, 3 4)',0.5); + will result in ambiguous function error - #2026, ST_Union(raster) now unions all bands of all rasters + - #2089, liblwgeom: lwgeom_set_handlers replaces lwgeom_init_allocators. - #2150, regular_blocking is no longer a constraint. column of same name in raster_columns now checks for existance of spatially_unique and coverage_tile constraints @@ -73,7 +74,14 @@ PostGIS 2.1.0 * New Features * + Refer to http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/PostGIS_Special_Functions_Index.html#NewFunctions_2_1 + for complete list of new functions + - #310, ST_DumpPoints converted to a C function (Nathan Wagner) + - #739, UpdateRasterSRID() + - #945, improved join selectivity, N-D selectivity calculations, + user accessible selectivity and stats reader functions for + testing (Paul Ramsey / OpenGeo) - toTopoGeom with TopoGeometry sink (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) - clearTopoGeom (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) - ST_Segmentize(geography) (Paul Ramsey / OpenGeo) @@ -88,28 +96,27 @@ PostGIS 2.1.0 (Bborie Park / UC Davis) - Added array variants of ST_SetValues() to set many pixel values of a band in one call (Bborie Park / UC Davis) + - #1293, ST_Resize(raster) to resize rasters based upon width/height - #1627, package tiger_geocoder as a PostgreSQL extension - #1643, #2076, Upgrade tiger geocoder to support loading tiger 2011 and 2012 (Regina Obe / Paragon Corporation) Funded by Hunter Systems Group - GEOMETRYCOLLECTION support for ST_MakeValid (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) + - #1709, ST_NotSameAlignmentReason(raster, raster) - #1818, ST_GeomFromGeoHash and friends (Jason Smith (darkpanda)) + - #1856, reverse geocoder rating setting for prefer numbered highway name - ST_PixelOfValue (Bborie Park / UC Davis) - Casts to/from PostgreSQL geotypes (point/path/polygon). - - #2011, ST_DumpValues to output raster as array (Bborie Park / UC Davis) - - #2018, ST_Distance support for CircularString, CurvePolygon, MultiCurve, - MultiSurface, CompoundCurve - - #2030, n-raster (and n-band) ST_MapAlgebra (Bborie Park / UC Davis) - Added geomval array variant of ST_SetValues() to set many pixel values of a band using a set of geometries and corresponding values in one call (Bborie Park / UC Davis) - ST_Tile(raster) to break up a raster into tiles (Bborie Park / UC Davis) - - #739, UpdateRasterSRID() - #1895, new r-tree node splitting algorithm (Alex Korotkov) - - #1709, ST_NotSameAlignmentReason(raster, raster) - - #1293, ST_Resize(raster) to resize rasters based upon width/height - - #945, improved join selectivity, N-D selectivity calculations, - user accessible selectivity and stats reader functions for - testing (Paul Ramsey / OpenGeo) + - #2011, ST_DumpValues to output raster as array (Bborie Park / UC Davis) + - #2018, ST_Distance support for CircularString, CurvePolygon, MultiCurve, + MultiSurface, CompoundCurve + - #2030, n-raster (and n-band) ST_MapAlgebra (Bborie Park / UC Davis) + - #2193, Utilize PAGC parser as drop in replacement for tiger normalizer + (Steve Woodbridge, Regina Obe) - #2210, ST_MinConvexHull(raster) - lwgeom_from_geojson in liblwgeom (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) - #1687, ST_Simplify for TopoGeometry (Sandro Santilli / Vizzuality) @@ -148,6 +155,8 @@ PostGIS 2.1.0 - #1780, support ST_GeoHash for geography - #1796, Big performance boost for distance calculations in geography - #1802, improved function interruptibility. + - #1823, add parameter in ST_AsGML to use id column for GML 3 output + (become mandatory since GML 3.2.1) - #1856, tiger geocoder: reverse geocoder rating setting for prefer numbered highway name - #1938, Refactor basic ST_AddBand to add multiple new bands in one call @@ -182,6 +191,7 @@ PostGIS 2.1.0 - Additional default values for parameters of ST_Aspect and ST_HillShade - #2178, ST_Summary now advertises presence of known srid with an [S] flag - #2202, Make libjson-c optional (--without-json configure switch) + - #2213, Add support libjson-c 0.10+ - #2231, raster2pgsql supports user naming of filename column with -n - #2200, ST_Union(raster, uniontype) unions all bands of all rasters - #2264, postgis_restore.pl support for restoring into databases @@ -190,10 +200,8 @@ PostGIS 2.1.0 out-db bands - #2222, add parameter OutAsIn to flag whether ST_AsBinary should return out-db bands as in-db bands - - #1823, add parameter in ST_AsGML to use id column for GML 3 output - (become mandatory since GML 3.2.1) - * Bug Fixes * + * Fixes * - #1839, handling of subdatasets in GeoTIFF in raster2pgsql. - #1840, fix logic of when to compute # of tiles in raster2pgsql. @@ -236,9 +244,16 @@ PostGIS 2.1.0 - #2282, Fix call to undefined function nd_stats_to_grid() in debug mode - #2307, ST_MakeValid outputs invalid geometries - #2309, Remove confusing INFO message when trying to get SRS info + - #2336, FIPS 20 (KS) causes wildcard expansion to wget all files - #2348, Provide raster upgrade path for 2.0 to 2.1 - #2351, st_distance between geographies wrong - #2359, Fix handling of schema name when adding overview constraints + - #2371, Support GEOS versions with more than 1 digit in micro + - #2383, Remove unsafe use of \' from raster warning message + - #2384, Incorrect variable datatypes for ST_Neighborhood + + * Known Issues * + - #2111, Raster bands can only reference the first 256 bands of out-db rasters PostGIS 2.0.4 2013/09/06