PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 18 2005

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 18 2005 ==

Tom Lane checked in 2PC, a patch which touches 62 files. Please
download CVS TIP and test, test, test.

SHOW ALL now includes descriptions for variables.

Pavel Stehule added BETWEEN SYMMETRIC and a capability for PL/PgSQL
RAISE parameters to be expressions to a chorus of helpful comments and
patch patching.

John Hansen's patch to allow for 3- and 4-byte UTF-8 characters was
applied.

Teodor Sigaev commited changes introducing WAL for GiST.

It's been a week for wide-ranging discussions on -hackers. E''
escaping, autovacuum integration, quotas.

E'' escaping redux at
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgescape

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

pgAdmin III v1.2.2 is out, now with Mac OS/X port and bug fixes.
http://www.pgadmin.org/

Version 0.9 of NetEpi Case Manager is now available via
http://www.netepi.org

libgda/libgnomedb 1.2.2 released
http://www.gnome-db.org/docs/announce-1.2.2.php

SpikeSource is sponsoring Christopher Kings-Lynne to add Slony-I
management tools to phpPgAdmin
http://www.phppgadmin.org/

Dave Cramer is working with Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, ObjectWeb,
Pervasive and others on making PostgreSQL part of a J2EE compliant
stack. You can find out more about this stack at
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/jdbctestsuite-1_3_1.html

dataKiosk version 0.7 released
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/datakiosk/

Microolap Technologies Ltd announces PostgresDAC 2.1.0
http://www.microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/

SRA PostgreSQL Certification
http://www.sra.co.jp/public/sra/topics/topics2004/050217e.shtml

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

SpikeSource now has PostgreSQL in their stack testing platform, and is
sponsoring Josh Berkus to write migration tools and documentation.
http://www.spikesource.com/info/summary.php?c=POSTGRESQL

IT Manager's Journal interviews Andy Astor of EnterpriseDB
http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/05/06/17/1659206.shtml?tid=115&tid=107&tid=28&tid=85

General Bits: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
Qualified uniqueness and previous row visibility.