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PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 30 2006
More work progresses on Generalized Inverted Indexing (GIN) which will support tsearch3 and others.
We need students and mentors who want to work on PostgreSQL projects for Google's next Summer Of Code. One of last year's winners was http://pgfoundry.org/projects/qbe/ Query By Example. If you are a professor or a college/gradute student interested in doing a database-oriented Summer of Code project, especially if you already have your own project which relates to PostgreSQL, please contact Josh Berkus (josh@postgresql.org) as soon as possible. http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode Registration for the PostgreSQL Anniversary is open http://conference.postgresql.org/Registration
The PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit is brought to you by Afilias, EnterpriseDB, GreenPlum, Pervasive and Sun Microsystems.
PostgreSQL Product News
Devrim Gunduz has created a vim colorizing file for PostgreSQL based on the MySQL one. http://www.gunduz.org/postgresql/pgsql.vim
mod_sqil, an RDBMS -> XML mapper apache module which uses Apaches apr_dbd, making Postgres one of the supported platforms. http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modules&m=114599516512637&w=2
PostgreSQLDirect .NET Data Provider 2.50 released. http://www.crlab.com/pgsqlnet/
EMS SQL Query 2005 for PostgreSQL 2.2 released. http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/query/
PostgreSQL Local
Jean-Paul (jpa) Argudo will give a talk a JM2L in Nice, France on Saturday May 6th at 10:00 am in the TUX room. This talk will deal with general presentation of PostgreSQL features for beginners and general questions. http://jm2l.polytech.unice.fr/ http://linux-azur.org/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=ConfTech
PostgreSQL in the News
SeattleServer --> Efficient Syslog Centralization using PostgreSQL+Syslog-NG http://community.seattleserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=33
PostgreSQL used for baseball statistics package: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8986
Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/
General Bits, published on Mondays (PST/PDT): http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
Errata
A FISL, Rodrigo Hjort and Jo\343o Eduardo Mikos of Detran-PR did PostgreSQL: A success story for Parana state's department of traffic with slides at http://www.icewall.org/~hjort/pgsql/fisl7/web, and Leonardo did the talk on Sao Paulo's subway.
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