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Subject:    [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 21st 2004 ==
From:       Robert Treat <xzilla () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2004-12-22 7:08:58
Message-ID: 200412220208.58717.xzilla () users ! sourceforge ! net
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== PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 21st 2004 ==

 PostgreSQL 8.0.0 RC2 was released earlier today and should be available at 
your local mirror and via bittorrent by now.  This will possibly be the last 
RC before final release, but as always stay tuned for more information as the 
situation develops. 

 This past week actually saw quite a few changes for this point in the release 
cycle; The use of SETOF as an input to parseTypeString() is now explicitly 
disallowed rather than silently ignoring it, which was the previous behavior. 
A problem with thread safety on AIX was fixed. The GUC variable 
checkpoint_segments can now be larger than 255. The advancing of 
ActiveSnapshot within a plpgsql function was tweaked. The pg_resetxlog 
program was modified to handle 8.0 WAL file names properly. Support for 
Kerberos 5 1.0.* releases was dropped due to a combination of configure 
issues and that packages own security issues. Last but not least, support for 
Latin9 encoding was added to to_ascii().

 One final story of interest from the -hackers mailing list this past week was 
the database recovery story posted by Joe Conway. Joe had run into a rather 
sticky situation with a large database he was running on NFS. The details are 
fairly technical, but an interesting read for those who like a good tale of 
recovery when things go bad. Check out the details at 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-12/msg00628.php.  


== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Arkeia Delivers PostgreSQL Hot Backup Plug-In 
http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/7423.html



== PostgreSQL In The News ==

Building and Configuring Slony
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/12/16/slony_install.html

Database vendors are joining the open source party
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/16/1953255&from=rss



== PostgreSQL Events ==

21C3: Berlin, Germany: December 27-29
There is a PostgreSQL booth at this years 21. Chaos Communication Congress. 
https://21c3.ccc.de/wiki/index.php/PostgreSQL

Linux Solutions: Paris, France: February 1-3
PostgreSQL will have a booth, and several community members will be attending
http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php



== PostgreSQL Weekly News - December 21st 2004 ==
On the Web:
http://www.postgresql.org

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