PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 4th 2005

PostgreSQL 8.0.0 RC3 was released over the weekend in what might actually be the last release candidate before final release. If you are running PostgreSQL on a platform that has not reported success yet, please do download and test RC3 as it might be your last chance to get a fix in before final release.

There was only minor smattering of fixes this week as things have really started to settle down now. Some shared memory issues on windows were addressed. A compiler issue on SunOS4 was fixed. A deadlock issue in the buffer manager was fixed. And last but not least, documentation changes included some work on external projects, rules, triggers, and the various pl languages were committed.

Work on the PostgreSQL website continued this week after a lot of praise and several bug reports were passed on to the development team. One bug in particular, the overlapping footer problem for some Mozilla based browsers, has been fixed and more updates will follow, so please keep that feedback coming.

PostgreSQL Product News

• PhpMyFAQ 1.5.0 alpha1 adds PostgreSQL support.
  • http://devblog.phpmyfaq.de/archive/2004/339/phpmyfaq-150-alpha1-released/

PostgreSQL In The News

• The Free Database Niche - Response
  • http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_conputerwoche_response

PostgreSQL Events

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

PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 4th 2005

• On the Web:
  • http://www.postgresql.org

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