== PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 15th 2003 == - Mailing list pgsql-announce
From | Robert Treat |
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Subject | == PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 15th 2003 == |
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Msg-id | 200312151726.28589.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net Whole thread Raw |
List | pgsql-announce |
== PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 15 2003 == Well, holidays are coming and going which will probably be a least a little disruptive to development the next few weeks. Case in point; the holding off of the 7.4.1 release in order to get schedules better worked out. (And yes, I'm ignoring the little elves who keep whispering about open bugs on the 7.4 branch). So with that news I might as well update you on some of the items that were dealt with this past week: A bug with whole row references being broken in subqueries and functions was fixed, and another bug dealing with the inheritance_planner was fixed, thanks to Chris Piker for the report. The pg_autovacuum feature saw a couple more issues roll in and get fixed as well, including one where an fflush() was needed before sleeping. The JDBC driver also received it's fair share of updates including an update to make PSQLState serializable (Kris Jurka), a patch for handling unique foreign keys (Jurka), enhanced metadata encoding (Jurka), a fix for empty binary stream failure (Jurka), fixes to build properly under jdk 1.1 (R Scranton), a fix for casting pooled connections to PGStatement (JariP), a fix for canceled row updates setting values to NULL (Jurka), a missing SQLState was added (P Higgans), and a patch to allow the server end port to be specified when running regression tests was added (Jurka). Thanks for everyone who has submitted patches and bug reports on 7.4 so far. So on to 7.5 then eh? There was nothing too exciting this week, but still a good amount of little enhancements. One of the more important ones was the revival of Neil Conways buffer management cleanup patch to work with the changes Jan Wieck recently made. This patch replace several marcos with functions, got rid of some crufty #fdefs, removed some other unneeded code, and spruced up the in-line comments on the code. We also received a few more documentation updates, including improvements for the Create Operator syntax, SSL documentation, and server maintenance information. Otherwise there was some spirited discussion on the revival of the pg_upgrade program, which would allow for in place upgrades for future releases. One last note, thanks go out to Pavel Stehule who translated the FAQ to Czech for us. As always we keep a copy of all our FAQ's on the main website at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/. == PostgreSQL Product News == Fastbuzz, a unique integration of RSS aggregation, searching & email delivery http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/12/emw93392.htm Fujitsu Promoting PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/news/168.html Announcing PostgreSQL Manager 2.0 http://www.ems-hitech.com/pgmanager/news.phtml?id=429 == PostgreSQL In the News == Using a Linux desktop for graphics, media production http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/10/2345242.shtml?tid=131&tid=2&tid=82&tid=94 Will Open Source Be Forced To Go Proprietary? http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22843.html DB Clustering/OLAP with PostgreSQL http://www.open-mag.com/0182533982.shtml == Upcoming Events == Linux.Conf.Au: Adelaide, Australia: January 12-17 BOF and Tutorials presented by Gavin Sherry http://lca2004.linux.org.au. NordU Usenix 2004: Denmark: January 28 - February 1 Bruce Momjian will be giving PostgreSQL several tutorials http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/ Linux Solutions 2004: Paris, France: February 4-6 Bruce Momjian will be presenting http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/EN/home/index.php?site=default == PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 15th 2003 == Don't forget to read Elein Mustain's Weekly Summary of the PostgreSQL General Mailing List http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ On the Web: http://www.postgresql.org http://advocacy.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
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