== PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 21 2006 ==
Security upgrades 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13 and 7.3.15 will be out soon.
Get ready to upgrade, ASAP!
There were discussions about improving string manipulation, adding
shared memory for add-ins, and a continuing discussion about using
compression to improve on-disk sorts.
Alvaro Herrera committed two patches to autovacuum. The first makes
a running autovacuum appear in the pg_stat_activity view, including
the actual table it is currently working on. The other, from Larry
Rosenman, adds four columns to the pg_stat_*_tables views, exposing
the time at which vacuum and analyze were run for each table. You can
see whether the VACUUM was issued manually VACUUMs or via AUTOVACUUM.
== PostgreSQL Product News ==
pgFouine 0.6 released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgfouine/
ODBCng 0.99 for Linux is out
http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng
Command Prompt has teamed up with Covalent
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb387246.htm
Navicat 6.1.5 for OS X released.
http://pgsql.navicat.com/
PgPool 3.0.2 released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/
== PostgreSQL Jobs for May ==
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2006-05/threads.php
== PostgreSQL Local ==
Everything this week was global.
== PostgreSQL in the News ==
Thomas Friedman names PostgreSQL as a disruptive technology
(subscription required)
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/opinion/19friedman.html?emc=eta1
Buried deep in this article are a couple of companies using PostgreSQL
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50405.html
Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/
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PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter
Josh Berkus, Alvaro Herrera, Larry Rosenman and Robert Treat
