== PostgreSQL Weekly News - February 05 2006 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - February 05 2006 ==

Tom Lane has been committing lots of bug fixes, including performance
enhancements for both UNION ALL and constraint exclusion. Andrew
Dunstan committed lots of "DROP IF EXISTS" functionality.

Magnus Hagander will be speaking at Linuxforum/2006 in Copenhagen,
Denmark, which takes place March 3 and 4, 2006.
http://linuxforum.dk/2006/en/

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Devrim Gunduz and Tatsuo Ishii have founded the PgPool Global
Development Group.
http://pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/pgpool-hackers

Binary packages for Slony-I are available
Kudos to Devrim Gunduz
http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000122

pgpool 2.7.2 and 3.0.0 released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/

Pervasive helps Did-it with a large PostgreSQL installation.
http://www.pervasive.com/company/press/releases_show.asp?cid=587

Burcu Guzel and Devrim Gunduz have started a GUI PostgreSQL installer
for Linux
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgnixinstaller

PL/Py 0.3 released
http://python.projects.postgresql.org

== PostgreSQL Local ==

The Phoenix PostgreSQL Users' Group will be meeting

Date: Monday, 20 February 2006
Time: Starting 6:30 P.M.
Place:
La Madeleine
3102 E. Camelback Rd.
Phone: 602-952-0349

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

The folks at Sourceview are attempting to get a new magazine, SourceView Open
Journal, up and out in the next few months. The first issue looks at user
applications using postgresql. Those interested in writing articles or
writing a monthly column can send submissions to Michael Dean
<mdean(at)sourceview(dot)com>

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
Devrim Gunduz, Robert Treat and Tony Wasson.