Are you busy testing the new code? I hope you are! Want a place in history? I'm looking for a few "testimonials" for the final release announcement when 1.4 comes out, so compare your production queries on Pg1.3/G3.0 with Pg1.4/G3.1 and report back on how much faster things are.
P. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > PostGIS users, > > I've been blogging over the past several months about some big > performance improvements in PostGIS, prepared geometries > <http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2008/10/postgis-performance-prepared-geometry.html> > and cascaded union > <http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2009/01/must-faster-unions-in-postgis-14.html>, > which have been brought over from JTS over the past year. > > What both these features have in common is that they require GEOS 3.1. > We have begun a Release Candidate series for GEOS, and now need > testing to ensure it is ready for full release. > > In order to try these features, you will need. > > - PostGIS SVN snap (aka 1.4): > http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.4.0SVN.tar.gz > - GEOS 3.1RC2: http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.1.0rc2.tar.bz2 > > First compile and install GEOS, then PostGIS. > > The functions that have been sped up include: > > ST_Union(geometry) aggregate > ST_Intersects() > ST_Contains() > ST_Within() > ST_Covers() > > Thanks, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
