== PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 28 2005 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 28th 2005 ==

PostgreSQL 8.0.0, featuring the largest set of changes since 6.3, was
released. Please welcome all our new Windows users to the community.
Technical details of the many new features are at
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.277

Pervasive Software Inc. announced the release of Pervasive Postgres,
their supported distribution of the PostgreSQL code. Pervasive is
known for the successful proprietary embedded database Btrieve. Their
staff is enthusiastic about contributing to the PostgreSQL open source
code, pledging 12 programmers. See http://www.pervasivepostgres.com
for more information.

There has been active discussion of IBM's pending ARC patent on
-hackers. Please remember that legal opinion opinions from software
developers have at best the weight of software opinions from
attorneys.

Upcoming releases 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9 and 7.2.7 will fix a security
issue in the LOAD extension described at
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php which
allowed low-privileged users to load arbitrary libraries into the
postgres process space, at least on Windows. Other patches going into
8.0.1 include enhancements for Windows NT4 and for fixing the stack
size on Windows, which could crash on large IN() statements.

Pailloncy Jean-Gerard went from a purely theoretical idea of extended
types (number + unit) to a practical implementation including unit
arithmetic in under a week. Details here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-01/msg01355.php

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Mammoth PostgreSQL 1.4 Released
http://www.commandprompt.com/

PL/Java 1.0.0 Released
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava

pgEdit 1.0 Released
http://pgedit.com/

DBI-Link 1.0.0 Released
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/dbi-link

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

CD Baby converts to PostgreSQL and Ruby
http://www.commandprompt.com/

PostgreSQL General is back online
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/

PostgreSQL News Stories in Japanese
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/ITPro/NEWS/20050119/154938/
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0501/19/news061.html
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/news/200501/22/postgresql.html
http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2005/01/19/013.html
http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2005/01/19/6117.html

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