Thread: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - February 05 2006 ==
== PostgreSQL Weekly News - February 05 2006 == Tom Lane has been committing lots of bug fixes, including performance enhancements for both UNION ALL and constraint exclusion. Andrew Dunstan committed lots of "DROP IF EXISTS" functionality. Magnus Hagander will be speaking at Linuxforum/2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark, which takes place March 3 and 4, 2006. http://linuxforum.dk/2006/en/ == PostgreSQL Product News == Devrim Gunduz and Tatsuo Ishii have founded the PgPool Global Development Group. http://pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/pgpool-hackers Binary packages for Slony-I are available Kudos to Devrim Gunduz http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000122 pgpool 2.7.2 and 3.0.0 released http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/ Pervasive helps Did-it with a large PostgreSQL installation. http://www.pervasive.com/company/press/releases_show.asp?cid=587 Burcu Guzel and Devrim Gunduz have started a GUI PostgreSQL installer for Linux http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgnixinstaller PL/Py 0.3 released http://python.projects.postgresql.org == PostgreSQL Local == The Phoenix PostgreSQL Users' Group will be meeting Date: Monday, 20 February 2006 Time: Starting 6:30 P.M. Place: La Madeleine 3102 E. Camelback Rd. Phone: 602-952-0349 == PostgreSQL in the News == The folks at Sourceview are attempting to get a new magazine, SourceView Open Journal, up and out in the next few months. The first issue looks at user applications using postgresql. Those interested in writing articles or writing a monthly column can send submissions to Michael Dean <mdean@sourceview.com> 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 Devrim Gunduz, Robert Treat and Tony Wasson.