== PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 17th 2004 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 17th 2004 ==

Development remained at a good pace as people prepared for the
oncoming 7.5 beta period. Work continued on some of the bigger items like
PITR and win32, and we also got a first look at the tablespaces
implementation. While not ready for official submittal, Gavin Sherry posted a
patch along with some unresolved issues to serve as the next step forward for
this often requested feature.

A couple of bugs were fixed and back-patched into the 7.4 tree, which
started rumblings of a potential 7.4.3 release in the next few weeks. While
there was no definitive date set, with beta coming soon it is more than
likely we will have one in the next few weeks; in the mean time here is a run
down on this weeks fixes. An efficiency problem in executor startup related
to some low-level aclcheck code was re-factored. A possible buffer overrun in
enlargeStringInfo() was corrected. A bug when unioning zero column tables
was fixed. Some issues in thread support for unixware were addressed.

Looking at some other areas where new functionality was added, support
was introduced for "relocatable installs" which allows users to move entire
install directory structures and allows all of the PostgreSQL executables to
work. External modules (like pl langs) can now set additional flags for the
dlltool and dllwrap commands. A basic implementation of the SQL2003 spec
function width_bucket() was implemented for the 'numeric' datatype. The
ln(), log(), power(), and sqrt() were modified to emit the correct SQLSTATE
error codes for certain error conditions as specified by SQL2003. Last but
not least, some documentation for the new "dollar quoting" feature was added
in and several examples were updated to show the new style.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

new version of contrib/pg_trgm is available!
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-05/msg00646.php

my2pg 1.30 released
http://freshmeat.net/projects/my2pg/?branch_id=6864&release_id=161008

== PostgreSQL In the News ==

The Open Source Government
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/online/33794.html

A start to programming enterprise applications with Linux, Java and PostgreSQL
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci962881,00.html

libpqxx simplifies PostgreSQL C++ programming
http://www.devchannel.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/11/1720258

== Upcoming Events ==

NLUUG Open Source for Business: Ede, Netherlands: May 27
Elein Mustain will be speaking on PostgreSQL Extensibility
http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj04/

European Regional Open Source Conference: Yerevan, Armenia: June 28-30
Bruce Momjian will be speaking at the Conferance
http://www.opensourcearmenia.com/osconference

OSCon: Portland, OR. USA: July 26-30
There will be a PostgreSQL Track with many community members participating.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2004/

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 17th 2004 ==
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