I am very excited to report that we have finally released PostGIS 1.4. We are still preparing the windows binaries UPDATE: Windows binaries are now available and installers which will become available in the coming week for PostgreSQL 8.2,8.3, and 8.4.
Below are the details excerpted from Paul Ramsey's postgis news announcement. We also recently came back from OSCON 2009 where we gave a
talk on Tips and Tricks for writing PostGIS spatial queries. In that talk we showcased some of the new features of PostGIS 1.4, as well as demonstrating
how the new Windowing and Common Table Expressions introduced in PostgreSQL 8.4 simplifies and provides more options for writing PostGIS spatial queries. We'll be making the slides and data available
shortly.
RefCardz DZone PostgreSQL Essentials -- stay tuned
On another exciting note, not only are we working on our upcoming Manning book PostGIS in Action,
but we have contracted with DZone RefCardZ to do a PostgreSQL Essentials. Recall we had discussed this a while back that how come there is one for MySQL,
but none for PostgreSQL and that someone should write one up for PostgreSQL, preferrably someone who is writing a PostgreSQL related book.
So I guess that someone would be us.
We are currently finalizing our first draft of this. Sadly we are a little behind on schedule, but hope to make the time up in the coming month. We'll provide more details on sponsorship and availability
as the story unfolds. You can expect to see the general essential stuff like, backup, restore, the growing family of PostgeSQL PL/Languages and examples of them, basic architecture, common SQL constructs. In addition
we will show case some of the new PostgreSQL 8.4 enhancements.
