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Changes in Thuban 0.9
=====================

 - An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
   XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
   binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
   online version is available at
   http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html

 - New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
   Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
   date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
   translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.

 - PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
   point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
   7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
   versions probably also work.

   The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
   select permissions on any table to show and also on the
   geometry_columns table.

   Known Issues:

    - Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
      MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.

    - Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
      integer which uniquely identifies the row.

    - It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
      the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
      especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
      column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
      versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.

 - Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
   can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.


More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.
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2			=====================
3
4			- An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
5			XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
6			binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
7			online version is available at
8			http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html
9
10			- New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
11			Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
12			date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
13			translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
14
15			- PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
16			point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
17			7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
18			versions probably also work.
19
20			The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
21			select permissions on any table to show and also on the
22			geometry_columns table.
23
24			Known Issues:
25
26			- Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
27			MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
28
29			- Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
30			integer which uniquely identifies the row.
31
32			- It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
33			the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
34			especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
35			column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
36			versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
37
38			- Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
39			can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.
40
41
42			More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.
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