== PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 21 2006 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - May 21 2006 ==

Security upgrades 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13 and 7.3.15 will be out soon.
Get ready to upgrade, ASAP!

There were discussions about improving string manipulation, adding
shared memory for add-ins, and a continuing discussion about using
compression to improve on-disk sorts.

Alvaro Herrera committed two patches to autovacuum. The first makes
a running autovacuum appear in the pg_stat_activity view, including
the actual table it is currently working on. The other, from Larry
Rosenman, adds four columns to the pg_stat_*_tables views, exposing
the time at which vacuum and analyze were run for each table. You can
see whether the VACUUM was issued manually VACUUMs or via AUTOVACUUM.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

pgFouine 0.6 released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgfouine/

ODBCng 0.99 for Linux is out
http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/odbcng

Command Prompt has teamed up with Covalent
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb387246.htm

Navicat 6.1.5 for OS X released.
http://pgsql.navicat.com/

PgPool 3.0.2 released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/

== PostgreSQL Jobs for May ==

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2006-05/threads.php

== PostgreSQL Local ==

Everything this week was global.

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

Thomas Friedman names PostgreSQL as a disruptive technology
(subscription required)
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/opinion/19friedman.html?emc=eta1

Buried deep in this article are a couple of companies using PostgreSQL
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50405.html

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

General Bits, Archives and occasional new articles:
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PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter
Josh Berkus, Alvaro Herrera, Larry Rosenman and Robert Treat