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PostGIS 1.5.8 Manual290 / 310A.7.1Bug FixesLoader: fix handling of empty (0-verticed) geometries in shapefiles. (Sandro Santilli)#536, Geography ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_CoveredBy and Geometry ST_Equals not using spatial index (Regina Obe,Nicklas Aven)#573, Improvement to ST_Contains geography (Paul Ramsey)Loader: Add support for command-q shutdown in Mac GTK build (Paul Ramsey)#393, Loader: Add temporary patch for large DBF files (Maxime Guillaud, Paul Ramsey)#507, Fix wrong OGC URN in GeoJSON and GML output (Olivier Courtin)spatial_ref_sys.sql Add datum conversion for projection SRID 3021 (Paul Ramsey)Geography - remove crash for case when all geographies are out of the estimate (Paul Ramsey)#469, Fix for array_aggregation error (Greg Stark, Paul Ramsey)#532, Temporary geography tables showing up in other user sessions (Paul Ramsey)#562, ST_Dwithin errors for large geographies (Paul Ramsey)#513, shape loading GUI tries to make spatial index when loading DBF only mode (Paul Ramsey)#527, shape loading GUI should always append log messages (Mark Cave-Ayland)#504, shp2pgsql should rename xmin/xmax fields (Sandro Santilli)#458, postgis_comments being installed in contrib instead of version folder (Mark Cave-Ayland)#474, Analyzing a table with geography column crashes server (Paul Ramsey)#581, LWGEOM-expand produces inconsistent results (Mark Cave-Ayland)#513, Add dbf filter to shp2pgsql-gui and allow uploading dbf only (Paul Ramsey)Fix further build issues against PostgreSQL 9.0 (Mark Cave-Ayland)#572, Password whitespace for Shape File#603, shp2pgsql: "-w" produces invalid WKT for MULTI* objects. (Mark Cave-Ayland)A.8 Release 1.5.1Release date: 2010/03/11This is a bug fix release, addressing issues that have been filed since the 1.4.1 release.A.8.1Bug Fixes#410, update embedded bbox when applying ST_SetPoint, ST_AddPoint ST_RemovePoint to a linestring (Paul Ramsey)#411, allow dumping tables with invalid geometries (Sandro Santilli, for Regione Toscana-SIGTA)#414, include geography_columns view when running upgrade scripts (Paul Ramsey)#419, allow support for multilinestring in ST_Line_Substring (Paul Ramsey, for Lidwala Consulting Engineers)#421, fix computed string length in ST_AsGML() (Olivier Courtin)#441, fix GML generation with heterogeneous collections (Olivier Courtin)#443, incorrect coordinate reversal in GML 3 generation (Olivier Courtin)#450, #451, wrong area calculation for geography features that cross the date line (Paul Ramsey)Ensure support for upcoming 9.0 PgSQL release (Paul Ramsey)