Press release, hopefully final draft this time - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Folks,

Try this one on for size.    I've added a couple of tweaks.  Is everyone
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NY, NY: October XX, 2004 - The PostgreSQL Global Development group has
released version 8.0 of the PostgreSQL object-relational database management
system, building on its position as the most advanced open source database in
the world. This release includes features previously only available in
the most expensive proprietary database software, and is expected to
substantially increase the adoption of PostgreSQL by both users and
software vendors.

In addition to significant improvements in scalability, features, and
performance, PostgreSQL 8.0 demonstrates the unparalleled development
speed of open source.  More than a dozen companies, including Red Hat,
Fujitsu, Afilias, Software Research Associates, Inc., 2nd Quadrant, and
Command Prompt Inc., as well as hundreds of individual developers contributed
to add more major features to 8.0 than have been seen in any previous
version.   These features include:

Native Windows Support:  PostgreSQL now works natively with Windows
systems and does not need an emulation layer.  This provides dramatically
improved performance over previous versions, and offers a compelling
alternative to proprietary database software for independent software vendors,
corporate users, and individual Windows developers.

Savepoints:  This SQL-standard feature allows specific parts of a database
transaction to be rolled back without aborting the entire operation. This
benefits business application developers who require complex transactions
with error recovery.

Point in Time Recovery: Through automatically and continously archived
transaction logs, this feature allows full data restore from the point
of failure or another specific point in time.  Point in Time Recovery
provides a long-sought alternative to hourly or daily backups for
data-critical services on PostgreSQL.

Tablespaces:  Crucial to the administrators of multi-gigabyte data warehousing
systems, tablespaces allow the placement of large tables and indexes on their
own individual disks or arrays, improving query performance.

Improved Memory and I/O:  Disk and memory usage have been optimized through
the use of the Adaptive Replacement Cache algorithm, the new background
writer, and the new vacuum delay
feature.   This will result in more predictable loads and substantially more
consistent performance during peak usage times.

In addition to the many features bundled with the release, PostgreSQL has been
enhanced by accelerated development of add-ons and optional components over
the last year.    The Slony-I replication tool and the pgPool connection
pooling/brokering utility are both already being used for high-availability
server pools.   Several stored procedure languages have been added or greatly
expanded, including PL/Java, PL/PHP and PL/Perl, and the Npgsql and
PGsqlClient .NET data providers have been enhanced to support our many new
Windows users.

For a full list and description of the many new features in 8.0, please see
our press page <link>

PostgreSQL is the collective work of hundreds of developers, building on
almost twenty years of development dating back to the University of
California at Berkeley.  With its longtime support of an enterprise level
feature set including transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and
subqueries, PostgreSQL is being used by many of today's most demanding
businesses and government agencies. PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD
license, which allows fee-free use and distribution, for both commercial and
non-commercial applications.

To find out more about PostgreSQL or to download it, please visit:
  http://www.postgresql.org/



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