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PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 25 2006
A wide-ranging discussion of VACUUM and MVCC has resulted in a change to the TODO list, namely "Reuse index tuples that point to heap tuples that are not visible to anyone?"
Neil Conway has put up a wiki page for the code sprint at the conference. http://pgsprint.wetpaint.com/
Author or author team wanted for entry-level PostgreSQL book for large publisher in a high-profile imprint. Contact Josh Berkus (josh@postgresql.org) for a referral. Authors ONLY, thanks.
Sun Microsystems announced the inclusion of PostgreSQL in Solaris 10 Update 2, and the commencement of worldwide PostgreSQL support. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ontherecord
A tentative schedule of talks for the PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit has been posted at http://conference.postgresql.org/Program
The conference will include announcements and demos of more than 8 brand-new PostgreSQL add-ons and features. Sponsors include Afilias, EnterpriseDB, Greenplum, Pervasive, Skype, and Sun.
Robert Lor of Sun this week introduced his idea for a "generic monitoring framework" which would support runtime code introspection using tools like DTrace.
Charles Comiskey found three parts of the PostgreSQL code whose licensing was unclear. Two of them may be under by the GPL and one was of unknown copyright. The GPL components are being removed, and the Michael Meskes cleared up the ownership of the latter piece of code.
Should we keep maintaining the Cygwin port? Is anyone using it? If you want the Cygwin port to be in future versions of PostgreSQL, now is the time to speak up on pgsql-general or pgsql-hackers. One major concern is the current lack of a consistent Cygwin buildfarm member.
PostgreSQL Product News
Bricolage 1.8.11 and 1.10.2 released. http://www.bricolage.cc/
PostgresDAC 2.3.3 released. http://microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/
PostgreSQL Jobs for June
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2006-06/threads.php
PostgreSQL Local
Bizgres User Group had its first mini conference, Wednesday, June 21 in San Francisco. http://www.greenplum.com/usermeeting/register.php
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