PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 10 2005

PostgreSQL 8.0.2 out soon. NOTE: the PostgreSQL library libpq has changed major number. You will need to rebuild applications that use it. 2Q has now replaced the possibly patent-encumbered ARC. Various fixes to PLs have gone in, and the usual flock of clever improvements and bug fixes. More details at
- http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/release.html#RELEASE-8-0-2

CVS TIP now includes IN, OUT and INOUT parameters for stored procedures. There is a new poll available at http://www.postgresql.org/community/
PostgreSQL Product News
DBD::Pg 1.41
- http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/DBD-Pg-1.41

ExtenDB announces new ExtenDB Parallel Server
- http://www.extendb.com/data-warehousing-products.php

Vita Voom pgExpress Driver bug fixes
- http://www.vitavoom.com/Products/pgExpress_Driver/index.html

PostgreSQL New System Views
- http://pgfoundry.org/projects/newsysviews/

PostgreSQL Loader
- http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/

PostgresPy
- http://pgfoundry.org/projects/python/

PostgreSQL IO Monitor
- http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgiomonitor/

PostGrass GIS for Mac:
- http://openosx.com/grass/

Hitachi Software Announces New Any*GIS GeoAdapter Support
- http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2005/mar/30/news1.html

PostgreSQL in the News

Last week's PostgreSQL Weekly News drew accolades like the follwong: "I realized it was a joke after the second paragraph. Expletives were flying after the first!" "Consider me punk'd :)" Some PostgreSQL project members will be working with SpikeSource to "certify" PostgreSQL as part of their "supported Open Source stack". The big benefit of this is getting systematic daily testing of PostgreSQL's integration with other common OSS software, such as our JDBC driver, Hibernate and PHP.
- http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-05-2005/0003331617&EDATE=

A religious organization has adopted PostgreSQL among other open source tools. See why they switched.
- http://www.leaveitbehind.com/home/2005/03/why_switch.html

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PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 10 2005

PostgreSQL Product News

PostgreSQL in the News