== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 16 2005 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 16 2005 ==

PostgreSQL 8.1 beta 3 is out. Please test.

Tom Lane et al. fixed a bug in Kerberos5.

There has been a fruitful discussion on overhauling LISTEN/NOTIFY for
8.2.

Tom Lane added a last-minute compile tweak for 8.1 which allows
user-assigned LWLocks.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Bizgres 0.8 and Greenplum MPP released
http://www.bizgres.org/
http://www.greenplum.com/

Please help test phpPgAdmin 4.0 by downloading the latest development
snapshot.
http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/?page=download

psqlODBC has moved to pgfoundry.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/psqlodbc/

EnterpriseDB has donated an Apple Powerbook to the pgAdmin project by
for improving the Mac port of pgAdmin and any other work that it may
be useful for.

== PostgreSQL Local ==

PostgreSQL is the subject of two lectures on the second day of this
year's OpenWeekend (Czech language site) <http://www.openweekend.cz/>,
and international academic conference in Czech Republic. Pavel
Stehule will speak about PostgreSQL in general and Antonin Orlik will
speak about management of geospatial data with use of PostGIS.

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

Brian Hendrickson won the "Race to Linux" using PostgreSQL and other
FLOSS tools to rewrite Microsoft's Issue Tracker Starter Kit and
deploy it on Linux.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-11-2005/0004165379&EDATE=

SRA starts PostgreSQL CE Certification Testing
http://www.vue.com/sra/

NEC, JBOSS, SRA and Twin Sun have recently started a Linux support
business. URL below is in Japanese:
http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0505/3101.html

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 Berkus, Petr (PJMODOS) Jelinek, Christopher Kings-Lynne and Dave
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