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PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 21 2006
Security upgrades 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13 and 7.3.15 will be out soon. Get ready to upgrade, ASAP!
There were discussions about improving string manipulation, adding shared memory for add-ins, and a continuing discussion about using compression to improve on-disk sorts.
Alvaro Herrera committed two patches to autovacuum. The first makes a running autovacuum appear in the pg_stat_activity view, including the actual table it is currently working on. The other, from Larry Rosenman, adds four columns to the pg_stat_*_tables views, exposing the time at which vacuum and analyze were run for each table. You can see whether the VACUUM was issued manually VACUUMs or via AUTOVACUUM.
PostgreSQL Product News
pgFouine 0.6 released http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgfouine/
ODBCng 0.99 for Linux is out http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng
Command Prompt has teamed up with Covalent http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb387246.htm
Navicat 6.1.5 for OS X released. http://pgsql.navicat.com/
PgPool 3.0.2 released. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/
PostgreSQL Jobs for May
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2006-05/threads.php
PostgreSQL Local
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PostgreSQL in the News
Thomas Friedman names PostgreSQL as a disruptive technology (subscription required) http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/opinion/19friedman.html?emc=eta1
Buried deep in this article are a couple of companies using PostgreSQL http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50405.html
Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/
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PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter Josh Berkus, Alvaro Herrera, Larry Rosenman and Robert Treat