PostgreSQL 8.0.0, featuring the largest set of changes since 6.3,
was released. Please welcome all our new Windows users to the
community. Technical details
of the many new features are on our news page.
There has been active discussion of IBM's pending ARC patent on -hackers. Please remember that legal opinion opinions from software developers have at best the weight of software opinions from attorneys.
Upcoming releases 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9 and 7.2.7 will fix a security issue in the LOAD extension. which allowed low-privileged users to load arbitrary libraries into the postgres process space, at least on Windows. Other patches going into 8.0.1 include enhancements for Windows NT4 and for fixing the stack size on Windows, which could crash on large IN() statements.
Pailloncy Jean-Gerard went from a purely theoretical idea of
extended
types (number + unit) to
a practical implementation including unit
arithmetic in under a week.
Mammoth PostgreSQL 1.4
Released
CD Baby converts to
PostgreSQL and Ruby
PostgreSQL General is
back online
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