== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 06 2005 == A flurry of patches and new features are happening on -hackers and -patches including performance improvements to the WAL CRC checks, fixing NUMERIC operations, planner improvements, and WAL compression.
Michael Glaesemann, a long-time PostgreSQL user and new developer, has added a to_timestamp(double precision) function. Kudos! == PostgreSQL Product News == Mergeant 0.60 released http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mergeant/0.60/ libgda/libgnomedb 1.3.2 released http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgda/1.3/ http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomedb/1.3/ EMS PostgreSQL Manager 3.0 for Windows http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager/ pgEdit 1.1b3 - Mac OS X 10.4 compatible http://pgedit.com/ Progress continues toward a Slony-I 1.1 release, now with log shipping and Windows port. http://slony.info/ Christopher Kings-Lynne and crew continue to make progress on the upcoming phpPgAdmin 3.6, including Slony-I support. Dave Page and crew have been hard at work on pgAgent, a PostgreSQL-based job scheduler. http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dpage/index.php?p=6 == PostgreSQL in the News == General Bits: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ Resetting passwords, finding holes, and de-orphaning PostgreSQL Weekly News brought to you this week by David Fetter. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster