PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 29th 2004

A holiday week lead to a short list of changes for this week, the first full week of beta5. The pgcrypto module will now refuse to build if a suitable random source has not been defined, rather than compile but be unusable. The "\s" command in psql's help is now properly documented on platforms with readline. A recently introduced problem with client_encoding specification and the InitPostgres process was resolved. The tcl regex engine was upgraded to 8.4.8 (from 8.4.1). The documentation for SQL:2003 conformance has been updated. Last, but not least, the pg_dumplo utility was made schema aware.

I also wanted to alert readers to a new poll on www.postgresql.org, regarding mailing list and usenet use. There have been a lot of discussions lately on how best to configure the postgresql mail lists and nntp feeds; your feedback could really help in determining which way to go.

PostgreSQL Product News

• DBI-Link Enters Beta
  • http://pgfoundry.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=176

• Open-source payroll application launched
  • http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175137,00.htm

PostgreSQL In The News

• PostgreSQL goes enterprise this Christmas
  • http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175469,00.htm

• Siuling Ku to Lead Development for Next Gen Metapa Data Warehousing Solution
  • http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041129/lam035_1.html

PostgreSQL Events

• PostgreSQL Seminar: Ankura, Turkey: December 1 Devrim Gunduz will present a seminar about upcoming features of PostgreSQL 8.0
  • http://seminer.linux.org.tr

PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 29th 2004

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