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pgRouting extends the PostGIS/PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality.
This is the manual for pgRouting v3.8.0.
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General¶
Sample Data that is used in the examples of this manual.
Pgrouting Concepts¶
Function Families¶
All Pairs - Family of Functions
pgr_floydWarshall - Floyd-Warshall’s algorithm.
pgr_johnson - Johnson’s algorithm
pgr_aStar - A* algorithm for the shortest path.
pgr_aStarCost - Get the aggregate cost of the shortest paths.
pgr_aStarCostMatrix - Get the cost matrix of the shortest paths.
Bidirectional A* - Family of functions
pgr_bdAstar - Bidirectional A* algorithm for obtaining paths.
pgr_bdAstarCost - Bidirectional A* algorithm to calculate the cost of the paths.
pgr_bdAstarCostMatrix - Bidirectional A* algorithm to calculate a cost matrix of paths.
Bidirectional Dijkstra - Family of functions
pgr_bdDijkstra - Bidirectional Dijkstra algorithm for the shortest paths.
pgr_bdDijkstraCost - Bidirectional Dijkstra to calculate the cost of the shortest paths
pgr_bdDijkstraCostMatrix - Bidirectional Dijkstra algorithm to create a matrix of costs of the shortest paths.
Components - Family of functions
pgr_connectedComponents - Connected components of an undirected graph.
pgr_strongComponents - Strongly connected components of a directed graph.
pgr_biconnectedComponents - Biconnected components of an undirected graph.
pgr_articulationPoints - Articulation points of an undirected graph.
pgr_bridges - Bridges of an undirected graph.
Contraction - Family of functions
Dijkstra - Family of functions
pgr_dijkstra - Dijkstra’s algorithm for the shortest paths.
pgr_dijkstraCost - Get the aggregate cost of the shortest paths.
pgr_dijkstraCostMatrix - Use pgr_dijkstra to create a costs matrix.
pgr_drivingDistance - Use pgr_dijkstra to calculate catchament information.
pgr_KSP - Use Yen algorithm with pgr_dijkstra to get the K shortest paths.
pgr_maxFlow - Only the Max flow calculation using Push and Relabel algorithm.
pgr_boykovKolmogorov - Boykov and Kolmogorov with details of flow on edges.
pgr_edmondsKarp - Edmonds and Karp algorithm with details of flow on edges.
pgr_pushRelabel - Push and relabel algorithm with details of flow on edges.
Applications
pgr_edgeDisjointPaths - Calculates edge disjoint paths between two groups of vertices.
pgr_maxCardinalityMatch - Calculates a maximum cardinality matching in a graph.
pgr_degree - Returns a set of vertices and corresponding count of incident edges to the vertex.
Topology - Family of Functions
The following functions modify the database directly therefore the user must have special permissions given by the administrators to use them.
pgr_createTopology - create a topology based on the geometry.
pgr_createVerticesTable - reconstruct the vertices table based on the source and target information.
pgr_analyzeGraph - to analyze the edges and vertices of the edge table.
pgr_analyzeOneWay - to analyze directionality of the edges.
pgr_nodeNetwork - to create nodes to a not noded edge table.
pgr_extractVertices - Extracts vertex information based on the edge table information.
Traveling Sales Person - Family of functions
pgr_TSP - When input is given as matrix cell information.
pgr_TSPeuclidean - When input are coordinates.
pgr_trsp - Proposed - Turn Restriction Shortest Path (TRSP)
Utilities family
Functions by categories¶
pgr_drivingDistance - Driving Distance based on Dijkstra’s algorithm
pgr_primDD - Driving Distance based on Prim’s algorithm
pgr_kruskalDD - Driving Distance based on Kruskal’s algorithm
Post processing
pgr_alphaShape - Alpha shape computation
pgr_KSP - Yen’s algorithm based on pgr_dijkstra
Available Functions but not official pgRouting functions¶
Release Notes¶
pgRouting 3.8.0 Release Notes¶
Promotion to official function of pgRouting.
pgr_extractVertices
Error messages adjustment.
Function promoted to official.
pgr_degree
Error messages adjustment.
New signature with only Edges SQL.
Function promoted to official.
pgr_findCloseEdges
Error messages adjustment.
partialoption is removed.Function promoted to official.
Official functions changes
#2786: pgr_contraction
New signature:
Previously compulsory parameter Contraction order is now optional with name
methods.New name and order of optional parameters.
Deprecated signature pgr_contraction(text,bigint[],integer,bigint[],boolean)
New proposed functions
All releases¶
Indices and tables