Thread: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 16 2005 ==
== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 16 2005 == PostgreSQL 8.1 beta 3 is out. Please test. Tom Lane et al. fixed a bug in Kerberos5. There has been a fruitful discussion on overhauling LISTEN/NOTIFY for 8.2. Tom Lane added a last-minute compile tweak for 8.1 which allows user-assigned LWLocks. == PostgreSQL Product News == Bizgres 0.8 and Greenplum MPP released http://www.bizgres.org/ http://www.greenplum.com/ Please help test phpPgAdmin 4.0 by downloading the latest development snapshot. http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/?page=download psqlODBC has moved to pgfoundry. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/psqlodbc/ EnterpriseDB has donated an Apple Powerbook to the pgAdmin project by for improving the Mac port of pgAdmin and any other work that it may be useful for. == PostgreSQL Local == PostgreSQL is the subject of two lectures on the second day of this year's OpenWeekend (Czech language site) <http://www.openweekend.cz/>, and international academic conference in Czech Republic. Pavel Stehule will speak about PostgreSQL in general and Antonin Orlik will speak about management of geospatial data with use of PostGIS. == PostgreSQL in the News == Brian Hendrickson won the "Race to Linux" using PostgreSQL and other FLOSS tools to rewrite Microsoft's Issue Tracker Starter Kit and deploy it on Linux. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-11-2005/0004165379&EDATE= SRA starts PostgreSQL CE Certification Testing http://www.vue.com/sra/ NEC, JBOSS, SRA and Twin Sun have recently started a Linux support business. URL below is in Japanese: http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0505/3101.html Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/ General Bits, published on Mondays (PST/PDT): http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter, Josh Berkus, Petr (PJMODOS) Jelinek, Christopher Kings-Lynne and Dave Page