== PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 06 2005 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 06 2005 ==

PostgreSQL 8.1.0 is imminent. Watch for announcements!

Qingqing Zhou, Magnus Hagander, Merline Moncure, Andrew Dunstan and
Tom Lane found, tested and implemented a big performance boost for
PostgreSQL on Win32 systems by re-arranging the way win32 polls for
the "fake signals" used to emulate Unix behaviour and eliminating a
kernel call in a very active codepath.

There has been a lively discussion on -hackers about Simon Riggs'
proposal to make a space-optimized NUMERIC type.

There's been a lively and wide-ranging discussion of how to implement
enums in a correct way. Kudos to Andrew Dunstan for the sample
implementation.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Big Nerd Ranch and Sergio Leone ;) present PostgreSQL Bootcamp December 12-16
http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/postgresql.shtml

Tom Copeland's book PMD Applied has been published, complete with
PostgreSQL examples.
http://pmdapplied.com/

PostgresDAC 2.2.2 released
http://www.microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/download/?r1=pgmail&r2=pgdac222

Pathena desktop search released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pathena/

libgda 1.2.3 security fix released
http://www.gnome-db.org/

pgAdmin 1.4.0 RC1 is out
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/pgadmin3/beta/

PremiumSoft has released Navicat for PostgreSQL
http://pgsql.navicat.com/

Vita Voom pgExpress Driver v3.50 is out
http://www.vitavoom.com/Products/pgExpress_Driver/index.html

Bugzilla 2.20 released with official experimental postgresql support.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7615

== PostgreSQL Local ==

Only global things happened this week.

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

Abhijit (crab) Menon-Sen , Devdas (f3ew) Bhagat and David Fetter will
be speaking at FOSS.IN, which runs November 29th through December 3rd,
2005
http://foss.in/2005/schedules/

Robby (robbyonrails) Russel interviewed the CDBaby team about their
switch from PHP/MySQL to Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8274

Alvaro Herrera has joined Command Prompt, where he will be working on
PL/PHP.

Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/

General Bits, published on Mondays (PST/PDT):
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/

PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter,
Josh Drake and Robert Treat