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PostgreSQL OGR FDW update and PostGIS 2.2 news

PostGIS 2.2 is planned to reach feature freeze June 30th 2015 so we can make the September Postgresql 9.5 curtain call with confidence. Great KNN enhancements for PostgreSQL 9.5 only users. I've been busy getting all my ducks lined up. A lot on tiger geocoder and address standardizer extension to be shipped with windows builds, story for later. One other feature we plan to ship with the windows Postgis 2.2 builds is the ogr_fdw ogr_fdw Foreign data wrapper extension. I've been nagging Paul Ramsey a lot about issues with it, this in particular https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw/issues/25, and after some prodding, he finally put his nose in and fixed them and pinged Even Rouault for some help on a Gdal specific item.

Needless to say, I've been super happy with the progress and support I've gotten with ogr_fdw development and really enjoying my ogr_fdw use. The XLSX reading a file saved after the connection was open required a fix in GDAL 2.0 branch (which missed GDAL 2.0.0 release, so because of this, this new package contains a GDAL 2.0.1ish library. Hopeful GDAL 2.0.1 will be out before PostGIS 2.2.0 comes out so I can release without guilt with this fix.


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