PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 14th 2004

Well the big story last week was the network outage that disrupted a number of community services. The good news was that the redundancy that had been put into place so far seemed to work, the bad news of course being that enough services haven't gotten their redundancy put in place yet. Hopefully the past week can serve as some lessons learned as we continue to build out the postgresql.org infrastructure.

With development somewhat hampered, the core team has not made any decisions yet on just when the next release will be, but at this point we can probably expect another RC before Final comes out. Even with the aforementioned troubles we did see a few fixes come into CVS this week. Several problems revolving around binary compatibility (or the lack thereof) between parent and child tables were fixed. A bug in pg_dump with comments on table constraints was fixed. The pg_resetxlog program was modified to longer run as root, preventing some file permission errors from germinating. Finaly, the pl/perl documentation saw a number of updates, clarifying the scope of global data and providing an example of storing a code reference.

PostgreSQL Product News

• phpPgAdmin 3.5.1 Released
  • http://www.postgresql.org/news/254.html

• Radiant Data Redefines Data Availability and Replication with PeerFS v3.0
  • http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20041208192313656

• The Best Day Ever To Design A Database Structure
  • http://www.webpronews.com/it/database/wpn-20-20041208TheBestDayEvertoDesignaDatabaseStructure.html

PostgreSQL In The News

• Automating PostgreSQL Tasks
  • http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/12/09/pg_automation.html

PostgreSQL Events

• PostgreSQL Seminar: Kayseri, Turkey: December 16 Devrim Gunduz will present a seminar on the new features in PostgreSQL 8.0
  • http://seminer.linux.org.tr/

• Linux Solutions: Paris, France: February 1-3 PostgreSQL will have a booth, and several community members will be attending
  • http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php

PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 14th 2004

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Source: PostgreSQL Announcements Mailing List (pgsql-announce) - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/