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Submitted by: dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org
Headline: pgAdmin III 1.2.0 Released
Summary:

The pgAdmin Development Team are proud to announce the release of pgAdmin III
v1.2.0. This is a major new release of pgAdmin following a year of development
work by various contributors.

Story:

The pgAdmin Development Team are proud to announce the release of pgAdmin III
v1.2.0. This is a major new release of pgAdmin following a year of development
work by various contributors.

pgAdmin is the most popular GUI PostgreSQL administration and management tool,
with native support for Windows and Linux/FreeBSD. It includes the following
features:

- Schema browsing of all PostgreSQL object types.
- Object creation/properties dialogues.
- Threaded ad-hoc query tool with EXPLAIN support.
- Table data view/edit tool.
- SSL support.
- Ability to connect and browse multiple servers at once.
- Support for Unicode databases.
- UI Translations into over 20 languages.

Summary of major changes:
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- PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Support
- Improved dialogue sizing based on font metrics.
- Server status windows now displays locks.
- The query tool can output results directly to a file.
- Data may be sorted and filtered in the Edit Grid.
- Column statistics are now supported.
- Refencing/referenced objects for each object may be viewed.
- Functions can be viewed and created with class datatypes.
- Lost database connections are now handled more gracefully.
- Added the ability to control local database services.
- Tablespace support.
- Added a permissions GRANT tool.
- Display of server logfiles (with server contrib package).
- Rows from the edit grid and query tool may be copied to the clipboard.
- Database backup and restore.
- Countless other bug fixes and minor improvements.

For a complete list of changes, please see the changelog at:

http://cvs.pgadmin.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pgadmin3/CHANGELOG.txt?rev=1.171&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

pgAdmin III is freely available under the Artistic Licence, and may be
downloaded from one of the mirror sites listed at

http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/download.php

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers, testers,
packagers and translators for their hard work over the last year.

Dave Page
pgAdmin Project.