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PostGIS 1.5.8 Manual288 / 310A.4 Release 1.5.5Release date: 2012/07/20This is a bug fix release, addressing issues that have been filed since the 1.5.4 release.A.4.1Bug Fixes#1825, containsproperly fix in prepared geometry.#1832, Crash when updating GIST index on geography column#1865, don’t strip comments COPY data from dumps on restoreA.5 Release 1.5.4Release date: 2012/05/06This is a bug fix release, addressing issues that have been filed since the 1.5.3 release.A.5.1Bug Fixes#547, ST_Contains memory problems (Sandro Santilli)#621, Problem finding intersections with geography (Paul Ramsey)#627, PostGIS/PostgreSQL process die on invalid geometry (Paul Ramsey)#810, Increase accuracy of area calculation (Paul Ramsey)#852, improve spatial predicates robustness (Sandro Santilli, Nicklas Avén)#877, ST_Estimated_Extent returns NULL on empty tables (Sandro Santilli)#1028, ST_AsSVG kills whole postgres server when fails (Paul Ramsey)#1056, Fix boxes of arcs and circle stroking code (Paul Ramsey)#1121, populate_geometry_columns using deprecated functions (Regin Obe, Paul Ramsey)#1135, improve testsuite predictability (Andreas ’ads’ Scherbaum)#1146, images generator crashes (bronaugh)#1170, North Pole intersection fails (Paul Ramsey)#1179, ST_AsText crash with bad value (kjurka)#1184, honour DESTDIR in documentation Makefile (Bryce L Nordgren)#1227, server crash on invalid GML#1252, SRID appearing in WKT (Paul Ramsey)#1264, st_dwithin(g, g, 0) doesn’t work (Paul Ramsey)#1344, allow exporting tables with invalid geometries (Sandro Santilli)#1389, wrong proj4text for SRID 31300 and 31370 (Paul Ramsey)#1406, shp2pgsql crashes when loading into geography (Sandro Santilli)#1595, fixed SRID redundancy in ST_Line_SubString (Sandro Santilli)#1596, check SRID in UpdateGeometrySRID (Mike Toews, Sandro Santilli)