PostgreSQL Weekly News - February 11 2005
- Tom Lane proposed a way to fix the "context swap storm" issue.
- PHP is getting a full-featured database access layer with PHP/PDO. Interested parties can download and pitch in at
- The input routines for float4, float8 and oid now reject empty string
rather than treating it as 0. If your application depended on the
previous behavior, now is the time to fix it.
SPI cursors now support scanning the results of utility commands that
return tuples. Look for tools that make EXPLAINs a little easier to
read as a result.
Four more (rare) buffer overruns were removed from the PL/PgSQL
parser.
Improvements and clarifications of the documentation continues apace.
PGCluster moved to pgfoundry.org
PostgreSQL Product News
pgpool 2.5 release Now with support for master-slave (a la Slony-I) replication.
- PLJava 1.0.1 released PL/Java 1.0.1 is now a trusted language. An untrusted version will be released in the next week or so.
- libgda/libgnomedb 1.3.0 released Libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framework for developing database-oriented applications. Project page http://www.gnome-db.org/Downloads:
- Interactive SQL 2.0 for PostgreSQL has been released!
- AquaFold, Inc announced the availability of Aqua Data Studio 4.0
PostgreSQL in the News
- Command Prompt Unveils Around the Clock PostgreSQL RDBMS Support PostgreSQL and related products now have 24/7 support available. Interested parties may mark that checkbox now.
Source: PostgreSQL Announcements Mailing List (pgsql-announce) - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/