PostGIS Has Released New Version PostGIS 2.1.6

PostGIS Has Released New Version PostGIS 2.1.6

PostGIS 2.1.6The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.6 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and performance issues. Users with large tables of points will want to priorize this patch, for substantial (~50%) disk space savings.

PostGIS is an extension to the PostgreSQL object-relational database system which allows GIS (Geographic Information Systems) objects to be stored in the database. PostGIS includes support for GiST-based R-Tree spatial indexes, and functions for analysis and processing of GIS objects.

The new release is coming with enhancements to previous version of PostGIS 2.1:

  • Ensure edge splitting and healing algorithms use indexes
  • Speed up geometry simplification (J.Santana @ CartoDB)
  • Speep up geometry type reading (J.Santana @ CartoDB)

The new release also have bug fixes and provide better environment for users:

  • Allow geography columns with SRID other than 4326
  • Small objects getting inappropriately fluffed up w/ boxes
  • Have postgis_typmod_dims return NULL for unconstrained dims
  • Allow duplicate points in JSON, GML, GML ST_GeomFrom* functions
  • Fix ND-GiST picksplit method to split on the best plane
  • Make operators <-> and <#> available for PostgreSQL < 9.1
  • Fix dimensionality confusion in &&& operator
  • Allow unregistering layers of corrupted topologies
  • Avoid exceptions from TopologySummary
  • ST_AddBand out-db bug where height using width value
  • Allow restore of Geometry(Point) tables dumped with empties in them
Download PostGIS 2.1.6
Download PostGIS 2.1.6 Manual

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