Re: Fifth Draft - Press Release

There were about 15 emails sent through the lists, would you like me to
forward them to you? (read: I'm not expecting archives up right away)

Robert Treat

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:16, Joshua Kramer wrote:
>
> Did anyone have additional suggestions for this on Sunday or yesterday?
> My e-mail was down due to a DNS problem and I can't get to the e-mail
> archives on the web site for some reason.
>
> Thanks,
> --Josh
>
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Joshua Kramer wrote:
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> >
> > August 24, 2004 - The PostgreSQL Global Development group today announced
> > the availability of the 8.0 version of the PostgreSQL Object-Relational
> > Database Management System. PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source
> > database in the world today. The database is icensed under a BSD-style
> > license, which allows for cost-effective implementation in any project due
> > to its lack of license fees. Version 8 is the collective work of hundreds
> > of developers.
> >
> > PostgreSQL 8.0 contains many new features that make the database a strong
> > contender against the likes of Oracle and DB2. Many companies have
> > already recognized the potential of PostgreSQL and have sponsored
> > development of the new features, which include:
> >
> > Native Windows Support: PostgreSQL now works natively with Windows
> > systems and does not need an emulation layer. This provides a increased
> > performance over previous Windows versions and makes PostgreSQL a strong
> > upgrade from Microsoft SQL Server.
> >
> > Savepoints: Savepoints, also known as nested transactions, allow specific
> > parts of a transaction to be aborted without affecting the whole
> > transaction. This feature, funded by Fujitsu, is valuable for application
> > developers who require error recovery within complex transactions.
> >
> > Point In Time Recovery: PITR provides the ability to recover data to the
> > point of failure or to any time in the past.
> >
> > Tablespaces: This feature, funded by Fujitsu, allows the database
> > administrator to choose which filesystems are used for schemas, tables,
> > and indexes. This allows the administrator to place whole databases on
> > separate disks to improve performance.
> >
> > Improved Memory and I/O usage: With this release of PostgreSQL, the
> > memory and disk I/O subsystems have been improved to use shared buffers
> > more effectively. With this improvement comes an increase in speed and
> > performance.
> >
> > Along with the new features come some new addins:
> >
> > - Slony-I is a replication system funded by dot-org domain registry
> > Afilias.
> > - PostgreSQL has gained a number of stored procedure languages, namely
> > PL/PerlNG and PL/PHP which were sponsored by consultancy Command Prompt,
> > Inc. as well as PL/Java and the .Net provider Npgsql.
> > - Pgxs provides coding infrastructure to make it easier to deploy
> > extension modules. Numerous extensions and applications are available at
> > GBorg.postgresql.org and PGFoundry.org
> >
> > The PostgreSQL database can be downloaded freely at
> > http://www.postgresql.org.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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