Thread: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 08 2006 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 08 2006 ==

PostgreSQL 8.1.2, 8.0.6, 7.4.11 and 7.3.13 are out.  Please upgrade to
the latest point release.
http://www.postgresql.org/download/

There has been a productive discussion on new estimators for index
cardinality.  This will help with OLAP in 8.2.

Another discussion involved fixing up the INET/CIDR data types and
operators.  Will ip4r win the day?

Andrew Dunstan has had a busy week: a SOAP server for the Buildfarm's
dashboard.
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/14-SOAP-server-for-Buildfarm-dashboard.html
an article on his Enumkit
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/01/06/enumerated-fields-in-postgresql.html
and some fixes to PL/Perl with more coming.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

PGCluster-1.5.0rc1 released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgcluster/

Npgsql 1.0beta2 released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/npgsql/

pgchem::tigress v.3l_barsoi released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgchem/

ip4r 1.0 is now production.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ip4r/

PostgreSQL 8.1.2, 8.0.6, 7.4.11 and 7.3.13 are on their way.  Get
ready to upgrade at least to the latest point release.

Commandprompt presents Mammoth PostgreSQL, a distribution with lots of
goodies included.
http://www.mammothpostgresql.org/

pgPool 2.7 released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/

== PostgreSQL Local ==

Everything this week was global.

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/

General Bits, published on Mondays (PST/PDT):
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
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PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter,
Andrew Dunstan and Andrew at Supernews.