PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 30th 2003

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 30th 2003 ==

So far the beta5 release has gone pretty well so we should be looking
at an RC1 release next time around. In order to shake out remaining
issues, the official call for port reports has gone out. This is one of
the last steps where folks test the new version of PostgreSQL against
their existing architecture to ensure compatibility. You can view the
current list of port reports at
http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/supported-platforms.html, if you don't see your hardware listed there with version 7.4, you will want to download the latest release and test it against your platform.

Fittingly, the list of fixes this week is pretty small. Christopher
Kings-Lynne spent some time cleaning up the tutorial scripts. Changes
included setting the search path properly, adding schema names to the
results, synching the checks for user-defined objects, respecting
dropped columns, and changing !~ to the more common 'not like'. In other
areas, we no longer reference pthreads.h unless threads are enabled.
Some unreferenced socket credentials defines were removed from libpq.
Some more tweaking with CFLAGS and gcc occured, hopefully finding a
happy medium. Several fixes for compiling with Tru64/cc went in, as well
as compiling for win32 with MSC. A problem in ecpg with storage for
strings that are dynamically allocated was fixed. The configure script
was change to guard against Ant versions that print CLASSPATH before the
version number in -version output. We now include -lkrb5 when needed for
shlibs depending on libpq. Tab completion in psql was modified to no
longer include "schema." in the set of possible completions once
"schema." has been types, allowing readline to complete subsequent
characters immediately if all relations in the target schema start with
the same prefix. Also completion was made schema aware for GRANT,
REVOKE, and VACUUM.

Documentation changes were also lite, really just minor rewording and
pruning. Some obsolete information was pruned out regarding optimization
flags and gcc. Information regarding quotes on function bodies was added
to the NOTES section and the wording of the MOVE/FETCH release note was
improved. Also the contrib/dbmirror README was updated removing
references to older versions of PostgreSQL and adding information about
PgPerl on Gborg.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Tasting Notes 2.0.0a
http://latakia.dyndns.org/blosxom/blog/beer/tasting-notes-iia.html

KOffice's Kexi now has a PostgreSQL driver
http://www.koffice.org/kexi/

== PostgreSQL In the News ==

Database Access with PHP
http://www.certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=161INTRODUCTORY

== Upcoming Events ==

International PHP Conference: Frankfurt, Germany: November 2-5
Bruce Momjian will be presenting several PostgreSQL talks at this year's
International PHP Conference.
http://www.phpconference.de/2003/

International Conference on Free Software: Curitiba,Brazil: November 5-7
The PostgreSQL user's group will be presenting at the conference
http://www.softwarelivrebrasil.pr.gov.br/

NordU Usenix Conference 2004: Copenhagen, Denmark: Jan 28 - Feb 02
Bruce Momjian will be giving PostgreSQL tutorials and talks at NordU.
http://www.nordu.org/NordU2004/index.html

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 30th 2003 ==
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