NEWS RELEASE - For release August 28, 2001

PostgreSQL packaged for Mac OS X in pgMac Database Kit

VICTORIA, BC - HeavyLifters Inc. and PostgreSQL, Inc. announced today that
the pgMac Database Kit has been Certified for use with PostgreSQL.

The pgMac Database Kit is an industrial-strength database product that
consists of the award-winning open source PostgreSQL database, an
installer for Mac OS X, and administration tools for managing PostgreSQL
databases. pgMac is packaged to be easily used by a Mac OS X user with
little or no database experience.

Geoff Davidson, CEO of PostgreSQL, Inc. says, "This is an exciting new
toolkit that will help speed up development Mac OS X applications using
the power of PostgreSQL. HeavyLifters was our first Platinum Partner, and
we have been working with them for several months to certify and support
the pgMac Database Kit for the Mac OS X environment. Although PostgreSQL
was already available on the Mac OS X platform, until now it was not
easily used by the mainstream Mac OS X user. Before pgMac, Mac OS X users
had to have considerable Unix experience and skills simply to install and
use PostgreSQL."

Doug Pelton, CEO of HeavyLifters Inc. advises, "This release is designed
to be used by software developers who need a scaleable,
industrial-strength database at the core of their Mac OS X products. There
are an estimated 2.5 million Java developers, many of them working on
applications for the new Mac OS X operating system. This product can save
each developer at least two months of development time, and provides them
with a professionally packaged and commercially supported open source
database to supply to their end users."

A trial version of the pgMac Database Kit is now downloadable from the
www.pgmac.com website, and Apple's Mac OS X downloads site
www.apple.com/downloads/macosx.

pgMac is available for sale at an introductory price of US$249 per single
computer from www.pgmac.com. Volume discounts are available for educators
and developers.

For more information contact:
Doug Pelton Geoff Davidson
HeavyLifters Inc. PostgreSQL, Inc.
250-480-5525 ext. 223 416-410-4124 ext. 1
Doug(dot)Pelton(at)pgMac(dot)com Geoff(at)PgSQL(dot)com