On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:42 -0500, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'll be sending this out in one hour, so please check for awful gaffs:
>
> ========================================
> After eight months of development and five months of integration and
> testing, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group now announces the
> availability of PostgreSQL version 8.2 (our 14th public release).
>
> Among the features of this new version are:
> -- Average 20% overall performance improvement
> -- Warm standby databases
> -- Online index builds
I still think that Online index builds sounds wierd. Non blocking?
Non-locking? etc... but it isn't a huge problem.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
> -- SQL2003 aggregates
> -- Improved TSearch2 with Generalized Inverted Indexes
> -- Support for DTrace probes
> -- Advisory Locks
> -- New ISN/ISBN and pgCrypto modules
> -- Selective pg_dump options
>
> ... and many more included in the over 300 patches which went into this
> version.
>
> For highlights of the release, please see the press kit:
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/presskit82.html.en
>
> Downloads:
> Source: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.2/
> Windows Binaries: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.2.0/win32/
> Red Hat RPMs: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.2.0/linux/rpms/
>
> Packages and ports for OSX, Solaris, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE and other
> operating systems will be available in the weeks and months to come,
> either from postgresql.org or from the platform vendor.
>
> Version 8.2 will be announced and discussed at the LISA conference in
> Washington DC, at the PostgreSQL booth and BOF:
> http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/
>
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