== PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 30 2006 ==
More work progresses on Generalized Inverted Indexing (GIN) which will
support tsearch3 and others.
We need students and mentors who want to work on PostgreSQL projects
for Google's next Summer Of Code. One of last year's winners was
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/qbe/ Query By Example. If you are a
professor or a college/gradute student interested in doing a
database-oriented Summer of Code project, especially if you already
have your own project which relates to PostgreSQL, please contact Josh
Berkus (josh@postgresql.org) as soon as possible.
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode
Registration for the PostgreSQL Anniversary is open
http://conference.postgresql.org/Registration
The PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit is brought to you by Afilias,
EnterpriseDB, GreenPlum, Pervasive and Sun Microsystems.
== PostgreSQL Product News ==
Devrim Gunduz has created a vim colorizing file for PostgreSQL based
on the MySQL one.
http://www.gunduz.org/postgresql/pgsql.vim
mod_sqil, an RDBMS -> XML mapper apache module which uses Apaches
apr_dbd, making Postgres one of the supported platforms.
http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modules&m=114599516512637&w=2
PostgreSQLDirect .NET Data Provider 2.50 released.
http://www.crlab.com/pgsqlnet/
EMS SQL Query 2005 for PostgreSQL 2.2 released.
http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/query/
== PostgreSQL Local ==
Jean-Paul (jpa) Argudo will give a talk a JM2L in Nice, France on
Saturday May 6th at 10:00 am in the TUX room. This talk will deal
with general presentation of PostgreSQL features for beginners and
general questions.
http://jm2l.polytech.unice.fr/http://linux-azur.org/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=ConfTech
== PostgreSQL in the News ==
SeattleServer --> Efficient Syslog Centralization using
PostgreSQL+Syslog-NG
http://community.seattleserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=33
PostgreSQL used for baseball statistics package:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8986
Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/
General Bits, published on Mondays (PST/PDT):
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
== Errata ==
A FISL, Rodrigo Hjort and Jo\343o Eduardo Mikos of Detran-PR did
PostgreSQL: A success story for Parana state's department of traffic
with slides at http://www.icewall.org/~hjort/pgsql/fisl7/web,
and Leonardo did the talk on Sao Paulo's subway.
PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter
and Jean-Christophe Arnu
