This list is not comprehensive but tries to cover at least 80%.  
We also leave out alternative names for functions. 
The main difference between prior versions and 1.3.1 is that 

in 1.3.1 and moving forward the MM naming convention of 
prefixing using ST_ is in place. 
The old names will still work, but moving forward you should use the ST_ names.
*Requires GEOS so in general slower than other functions
+Will use GEOS if compiled with GEOS
Most commonly used functions and operators
 Code snippet available
Measurement functions return in same units geometry SRID except
for the *sphere and *spheroid versions which return in meters

Denotes a new item in this version 1

Denotes now automatically uses spatial indexes 2

Geometry Types - WKT Representation

POINT(0 0)
LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,1 2)
POLYGON((0 0,4 0,4 4,0 4,0 0),(1 1, 2 1, 2 2, 1 2,1 1))
MULTIPOINT(0 0,1 2)
MULTILINESTRING((0 0,1 1,1 2),(2 3,3 2,5 4))
MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0,4 0,4 4,0 4,0 0),(1 1,2 1,2 2,1 2,1 1)), ..)
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(2 3),LINESTRING((2 3,3 4)))

BBox Operators

A &< B (A overlaps or is to the left of B)
A &> B (A overlaps or is to the right of B)
A << B (A is strictly to the left of B)
A >> B (A is strictly to the right of B)
A &<| B (A overlaps B or is below B)
A |&> B (A overlaps or is above B)
A <<| B (A strictly below B)
A |>> B (A strictly above B)
A = B (A bbox same as B bbox) 
A @ B (A completely contained by B)
A ~ B (A completely contains B)
A && B (A and B bboxes interact)
A ~= B  - true if A and B geometries are binary equal?

Common Use SFSQL Examples

 --Create a geometry column named the_geom in a 
--table called testtable located in schema public
-- to hold point geometries of dimension 2 in WGS84 longlat
SELECT AddGeometryColumn('public', 'testtable', 'the_geom', 4326, 'POINT', 2);

--Insert a record into the new table
 INSERT INTO testtable(description, the_geom)
VALUES('center of boston', 
    ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-71.0891380310059 42.3123226165771)', 4326));

--Insert a point record into the new table - faster than st_geomfromtext for points
 INSERT INTO testtable(description, the_geom)
VALUES('center of boston', 
    ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(-71.0891380310059, 42.3123226165771), 4326));

--Create a spatial index on the new geometry column
 ALTER TABLE testtable ALTER COLUMN the_geom SET NOT NULL;
 CREATE INDEX idx_testtable_the_geom ON testtable USING gist(the_geom);
 ALTER TABLE testtable CLUSTER ON idx_testtable_the_geom;

--Find the neighborhood with the smallest area
 SELECT neigh_name, ST_Area(the_geom) 
    FROM neighborhoods 
    ORDER BY ST_Area(the_geom) limit 1;

--Find the total area of each ward in square feet of wards in Boston,
--the extent (bounding box) of each ward, average sqft per precinct in each ward
 SELECT ward, sum(ST_Area(ST_Transform(the_geom,2249))) as totarea, 
  avg(ST_Area(ST_Transform(the_geom,2249))) as avgarea_precinct, 
	ST_Extent(ST_Transform(the_geom,2249)) as wardextent
    FROM wardprecincts WHERE city = 'Boston'
    GROUP BY ward;

--Find all land parcels within 100 units of a specific parcel.
SELECT l2.parcel_id, l2.st_num, l2.st_name 
 FROM landparcels l , landparcels l2
  WHERE ST_DWithin(l.the_geom, l2.the_geom, 100) 
    AND l.parcel_id = '1234560000';

--Break up multipolygons into individual polygons
SELECT neigh_name, 
ST_GeometryN(the_geom, generate_series(1, numgeometries(the_geom))) As polygeom
	FROM neighborhoods;

--Take individual polygons and create one multipolygon for each neighborhood
 --Note if you have a mixed collection of geometries, will return a geometry collection
SELECT neigh_name, ST_Collect(polygeom) as the_geom
	FROM neighborhoods
	GROUP BY neigh_name;

Using Shape Dumper/Loader Commandline Tools

Load data into PostgreSQL from ESRI shape file
shp2pgsql -s 4326 neighborhoods public.neighborhoods > neighborhoods.sql
psql -h myserver -d mydb -U myuser -f neighborhoods.sql

Exporting data from PostgreSQL to ESRI Shape file
pgsql2shp -f jpnei -h myserver -u apguser -P apgpassword mygisdb 
	"SELECT neigh_name, the_geom FROM neighborhoods WHERE neigh_name = 'Jamaica Plain'"

			
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