About Windows Support
Below are the official stable installs. For those who want to try out interim windows builds, PostGIS Gui PgAdmin III plug-in, and WKT Raster binaries, please refer to Windows Experimental Builds
Even if you are not ready to try our other experimental offerings, you may be very interested in downloading the new graphical PostGIS Shapefile and DBF File loader that you can use as a plugin for PgAdmin III. This will be packaged with the upcoming PostGIS 1.5, but you can download separately now and help us stress test it. Details on how it works and how to get going with it can be found here
PostGIS Installers
PostGIS 1.4.1 Last Stable of PostGIS 1.4 series Released December 17th, 2009
- GEOS 3.2.0
- PROJ 4.6.1 including proj-datumshift-1.4.zip
- libiconv support for shapefile loader (shp2pgsql)
- PostGIS documentation as a single PDF file
- PostGIS JDBC driver
- Experimental topology support
For PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4 Users
PostGIS is now included as part of the new PostgreSQL StackBuilder architecture. The latest version can be installed by going to Start -> Programs -> PostgreSQL 8.4 -> Application Stack Builder. Select your PostgreSQL installation from the list and then click "Next". The latest version of PostGIS will appear under the "Spatial Extensions" category (it may not be up quite yet but should be in the next week or so)
If you wish to install PostGIS offline, the same installers available through the StackBuilder can be downloaded here (or possibly at pgfoundary.org):
| [+] | PostGIS 1.4.1 release for PostgreSQL 8.4 (inc. GEOS 3.2.0/PROJ 4.6.1 ~6.5Mb) |
| Older Releases | |
| PostGIS 1.4.0 release for PostgreSQL 8.4 |
For PostgreSQL 8.2 Users
Important!
- The Windows version of PostgreSQL includes PostGIS as an optional component.
- Because PostgreSQL is released on a different schedule from PostGIS, the PostGIS component in the official PostgreSQL Windows installer is often older than the PostGIS available here.
- If you want the latest PostgreSQL and the latest PostGIS at the same time, install PostgreSQL without PostGIS. Then get the PostGIS installer from here and install it seperately.
If you installed PostGIS 1.1.6/1.1.7 as part of the PostgreSQL windows installer you must remove it first. Start the PostgreSQL install program and select Modify to remove the PostGIS installation.
If you already were using PostGIS 1.1.6/1.1.7 you will need to perform a "soft upgrade" on the existing 1.1.x tables and functions. See the documentation for more information about the upgrade process.
For PostgreSQL 8.1 Users
WARNING: Support for PostGIS on Windows PostgreSQL < 8.2 is deprecated, and will end with the last 1.3.x release. Please upgrade as soon as possible.If you installed PostGIS 1.0.4 as part of the PostgreSQL windows installer you must remove it first. Start the PostgreSQL install program and select Modify to remove the PostGIS installation.
If you already were using PostGIS 1.0.4 you will need to perform a "soft upgrade" on the existing 1.0.x tables and functions. See the documentation for more information about the upgrade process.
For PostgreSQL 8.0 Users
WARNING: Support for PostGIS on Windows PostgreSQL < 8.2 is deprecated, and will end with the last 1.3.x release. Please upgrade as soon as possible.The official PostgreSQL 8.0 installer included PostGIS 0.9.1 (a database dump and restore "hard upgrade" must be done in order to upgrade from 0.9.1). Please read the documentation for more information about the upgrade process.
NSIS Installer source files
The source code for the Windows NSIS installer is released under the GPL and may be of interest to people who wish to distribute their own versions of PostGIS. Please select which version of the source code you wish to download from the selection below:
| [+] | PostGIS 1.4.1 NSIS installer source for PostgreSQL 8.4 (~40kb) |
| Older Releases | |
| PostGIS 1.4.0 NSIS installer source for PostgreSQL 8.4 | |
PostGIS Binaries
Current Version: PostGIS 1.4.1 - released December 17th, 2009
Please read the enclosed ReadMe.txt for information about installing, upgrading old installs, and migrating to 8.4 1.4 from older 8.3/8.2 installs
These binaries include the following:
- postgis-1.4.dll
- shp2pgsql, pgsql2shp command line tools
- GEOS 3.2.0
- PROJ 4.6.1 including proj-datumshift-1.4.zip
- libiconv support for shapefile loader (shp2pgsql) -- note using the libiconv-2.dll that is packaged with PostgreSQL 8.4/8.3 is fine (the one in here is slightly newer but probably preferable to use the PostgreSQL packaged version). We may take this file out in later versions to minimize confusion.