== 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: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/ PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter Josh Berkus, Alvaro Herrera, Larry Rosenman and Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
