So PostgreSQL 10beta1 came out recently as Holly mentioned.
When first mention of beta hits, things start getting serious for me. I have to make sure that PostGIS compiles against said distribution to make sure eager testers aren't held back.
As with other releases, PostGIS didn't compile against the new PostgreSQL version without some nurturing. We've still got one regress failure, but at least PostGIS 2.4 now compiles cleanly against
PostgreSQL 10beta1. I'm hoping that we can release PostGIS 2.4.0 just in time for PostgreSQL 10 planned release in September so I don't have to backport PostgreSQL 10 patches I made to lower PostGIS versions.
For PostGIS 2.4 the main focus will be cleaning up the parallel work so that all aggregate functions can enjoy use of parallel optimization. This is even more important with PostgreSQL 10 now that
more kinds of queries can benefit from parallelization work. I'm also hoping to focus more energy on the raster side of things.
Upcoming Open Source GIS code sprint
Free and Open Source GIS (FOSS4G) 2017 international conference will be in Boston August 14th-19th 2017.
My favorite part of the conference is the after-event Code Sprint which will be held on Saturday August 19th. Looking forward to group think with fellow open source enthusiasts and
in particular PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and pgRouting folks and fleshing out last minute
details with PostGIS 2.4 release. The code sprint is free of charge even if you don't attend the main conference. To sign up for the code sprint go to https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Code_Sprint.
PostGIS 2.4 and other interesting extensions for PostgreSQL 10 beta1 Windows 64-bit
I started compiling extensions for PostgreSQL 10beta1 windows 64bit. I've tested these on BigSQL 64-bit PostgreSQL 10beta1.
If you want to install BigSQL distribution, follow instructions at Holly Orr: Install PostgreSQL 10 Today.
The PostgreSQL 10 EDB windows distribution hasn't come out yet, but should work with those when they come out.
If you are on windows and running 64-bit, and want to try out PostGIS and other things on PostgreSQL 10, windows binaries are posted at http://postgis.net/windows_downloads/.
There are binaries for lower versions as well. You'll also find ogr_fdw foreign data wrapper in the pg10 folder.
Some other fun extensions you can try with PostgreSQL 10.
pgRouting doesn't yet build against PostgreSQL 10, but Vicky is working on it, and I'll have windows binaries for that as well once she's done with her patch work.
I'm a bit behind on the 32-bit front. Partly because so few people seem to use 32-bit on windows these days, so I've gotten a bit lazy updating those.
