== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 25 2006 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 25 2006 ==

A wide-ranging discussion of VACUUM and MVCC has resulted in a change
to the TODO list, namely "Reuse index tuples that point to heap tuples
that are not visible to anyone?"

Neil Conway has put up a wiki page for the code sprint at the
conference.
http://pgsprint.wetpaint.com/

Author or author team wanted for entry-level PostgreSQL book for large
publisher in a high-profile imprint. Contact Josh Berkus
(josh(at)postgresql(dot)org) for a referral. Authors ONLY, thanks.

Sun Microsystems announced the inclusion of PostgreSQL in Solaris 10
Update 2, and the commencement of worldwide PostgreSQL support.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ontherecord

A tentative schedule of talks for the PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit is
below.
http://conference.postgresql.org/Program

The conference will include announcements and demos of more than 8
brand-new PostgreSQL add-ons and features. Sponsors include Afilias,
EnterpriseDB, Greenplum, Pervasive, Skype and Sun.

Robert Lor of Sun this week introduced his idea for a "generic
monitoring framework" which would support runtime code introspection
using tools like DTrace.

Charles Comiskey found three parts of the PostgreSQL code whose
licensing was unclear. Two of them may be under by the GPL and one
was of unknown copyright. The GPL components are being removed, and
the Michael Meskes cleared up the ownership of the latter piece of
code.

Should we keep maintaining the Cygwin port? Is anyone using it? If
you want the Cygwin port to be in future versions of PostgreSQL, speak
up now is the time to speak up on pgsql-general or pgsql-hackers. One
major concern is the current lack of a consistent Cygwin buildfarm
member.

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Bricolage 1.8.11 and 1.10.2 released.
http://www.bricolage.cc/

PostgresDAC 2.3.3 released.
http://microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/

== PostgreSQL Jobs for June ==

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2006-06/threads.php

== PostgreSQL Local ==

Bizgres User Group had its first mini conference, Wednesday, June 21
in San Francisco.
http://www.greenplum.com/usermeeting/register.php

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

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

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