== PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 06 2005 == PostgreSQL 8.1.0 is imminent. Watch for announcements!
Qingqing Zhou, Magnus Hagander, Merline Moncure, Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane found, tested and implemented a big performance boost for PostgreSQL on Win32 systems by re-arranging the way win32 polls for the "fake signals" used to emulate Unix behaviour and eliminating a kernel call in a very active codepath. There has been a lively discussion on -hackers about Simon Riggs' proposal to make a space-optimized NUMERIC type. There's been a lively and wide-ranging discussion of how to implement enums in a correct way. Kudos to Andrew Dunstan for the sample implementation. == PostgreSQL Product News == Big Nerd Ranch and Sergio Leone ;) present PostgreSQL Bootcamp December 12-16 http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/postgresql.shtml Tom Copeland's book PMD Applied has been published, complete with PostgreSQL examples. http://pmdapplied.com/ PostgresDAC 2.2.2 released http://www.microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/download/?r1=pgmail&r2=pgdac222 Pathena desktop search released http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pathena/ libgda 1.2.3 security fix released http://www.gnome-db.org/ pgAdmin 1.4.0 RC1 is out http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/pgadmin3/beta/ PremiumSoft has released Navicat for PostgreSQL http://pgsql.navicat.com/ Vita Voom pgExpress Driver v3.50 is out http://www.vitavoom.com/Products/pgExpress_Driver/index.html Bugzilla 2.20 released with official experimental postgresql support. http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7615 == PostgreSQL Local == Only global things happened this week. == PostgreSQL in the News == Abhijit (crab) Menon-Sen , Devdas (f3ew) Bhagat and David Fetter will be speaking at FOSS.IN, which runs November 29th through December 3rd, 2005 http://foss.in/2005/schedules/ Robby (robbyonrails) Russel interviewed the CDBaby team about their switch from PHP/MySQL to Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8274 Alvaro Herrera has joined Command Prompt, where he will be working on PL/PHP. 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 Drake and Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster