Re: 7.4 Press Release -- Draft #3

On Monday 21 July 2003 14:48, Robert Treat wrote:
> The PostgreSQL Global Development Group is pleased to announce the
> availability of version 7.4 of the PostgreSQL relational database
> management system (RDBMS). This significant release represents the work
> of our world wide network of over 100 developers and contributors over
> the last 9 months, building on the unparalleled success of our 7.3
> release in November 2002.
>
> Significant advances in the new version include:
>
> - A complete redesign of error logging and reporting, providing
> developers with an SQL99 compliant mechanism for debugging and
> troubleshooting, while at the same time providing users real
> time suggestions on how to avoid error conditions in their
> applications.
>
> - A redesign of subquery handling with the IN() clause resulting
> in considerable speed improvements.
>
> - The implementation of SQL99 compliant Information Schema,
> providing developers with database, type, object, and
> configuration information in a standards compliant way.
>
> - Statement level triggers, enabling developers and users to define
> and customized behavior of the database when data is stored and
> manipulated.
>
> - Read only transactions, which bring a greater level of
> security to web and enterprise applications by protecting data
> from modification.
>
> Other improvements include:
> - Performance improvements for data warehousing
> - Enhanced implementation of functional indexes
> - Addition of polymorphic function arguments and return types
> - Significant enhancements to array data types
> - Completely overhauled and simplified documentation
> - An auto-vacuum feature to help simplify database maintenance
>
> As well as many other features and improvements.
>
>
> A Timely Release
>
> In making the release, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group had to
> balance the large number of features planned for release with a
> consistent release cycle, which provides loyal users with enhancements
> as quickly as possible. <Insert quote from core developer reinforcing
> this>
>
> <Insert quote from user(s) about business critical nature of features
> released in this version>
>
> Source for this release is available at:
> http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html
>
> More information on PostgreSQL is available in ten languages on the
> PostgreSQL Advocacy website:
> http://advocacy.postgresql.org/
>
> A complete list of changes in PostgreSQL version 7.3 can be found in the
> HISTORY file included with the release, or available on the web at:
> <insert url for changelog>
>

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A complete list of changes in PostgreSQL version 7.4
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> With more than 16 years of development by hundreds of the world's
> most generous and brilliant minds from the open source community,
> PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database. With its
> long time support of an enterprise level feature set including
> transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and subqueries, PostgreSQL is
> being used by many of today's most demanding businesses and government
> agencies.
>
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>
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>
> --- outstanding issues --
> 1. Should we drop the "A timely release" paragraph?
>
> 2. Need end - user quotes
>
> 3. Need a URL for the changelog
>
> 4. Still looking for new companies
>
> 5. no mention of replication until the discussion finishes on -hackers.
>
>
> Robert Treat

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