== PostgreSQL Weekly News - September 05 2005 == There has been a lively discussion on supporting locales with collation. It appears that PostgreSQL may get a large new capability on this front for 8.2.
SCALE 4x, the Southern California Linux Expo is calling for papers. See below for details. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org Mark Wong of OSDL has started work on dbt-4, a fair use implementation of TPC-App. TPC-App is a b2b web services workload, and Mark would like some more help from Java developers. There are lots of new developers on the developers' bio page http://www.postgresql.org/developer/bios == PostgreSQL Product News == EMS PostgreSQL Manager 3.2 for Windows released. http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager/ PostgresDAC 2.2.1 released. http://www.microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/ pgPool 2.6.3 released http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/ Bugzilla's last impediment to using PostgreSQL as a back-end is now gone. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304 PostgreSQL RPM Building Project (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgsqlrpms) has built RPMs for Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4. More may come later. http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/rpms/8.1/beta1/rpms/ == PostgreSQL in the News == General Bits: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend