PostgreSQL Weekly News - March 28 2005

• Palle Girgensohn put together a patch for IBM's ICU collation library.
  • http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00880.php

• Bugs and how to report them:
  • http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

• 8.0.2 draws ever closer, now with 2Q replacing the ARC, among other improvements.

  PostgreSQL Product News

  Christopher Kings-Lynne reports that PHP 5.1 now has methods for interaction with PostgreSQL including pg_transaction_status, pg_query_params, pg_prepare, pg_execute, pg_send_query_params, pg_send_prepare, pg_send_execute, pg_result_error_field and pg_set_error_verbosity

  PostgreSQL in the News

  Neil Conway Presents: Inside the PostgreSQL Query Optimizer
  • http://linux.conf.au/abstract.php?id=147

• Josh Berkus spoke with Jack Loftus of SearchEnterpriseLinux on widening PostgreSQL adoption
  • http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1069591,00.html

• This week in General Bits: Views and Functions You Wish Came with PostgreSQL
  • http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/

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