PostgreSQL Community: PostgreSQL version 8.2 beta is now available from www.postgresql.org. As always, we rely on the members of our community to give our betas the extra testing they need to uphold our reputation for stability and security. More importantly, the more people we have beta testing on more platforms, the sooner the final release will be.
Particularly, we need the community's help in three areas: 1) Testing on unusual server platforms where we might not have complete automated testing coverage; 2) Testing by porting your own applications to the beta (though not in production, of course) to help test all features, including in combination, and relative performance against previous versions; 3) Testing some of the new features, such as GIN, warm standby, DTrace and online index builds to make sure that they work as advertised. To download the beta, and read more about beta testing, please visit the beta page at: http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta -- --Josh Berkus Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Project Core Team www.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
