Re: [ANNOUNCE] Its Beta Time Again ... 8.1 Beta 1 Now Available

Well, I got all 98 tests passing on slackware 10, must be about time for RC
isn't it? :-)

Robert Treat

On Thursday 25 August 2005 19:28, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Back on the 1st of July, after almost 6 months of development since 8.0
> was released, development on 8.1 was frozen.
>
> Now, after spending the past few weeks processing through outstanding
> patches applicable to 8.1, we now enter our beta testing period, where we
> need help from the community at large.
>
> PostgreSQL 8.1 will bring in alot of fairly large features, including:
>
> - Improve concurrent access to the shared buffer cache
> - Add in-memory bitmaps which allows multiple indexes to be merged in
> a single query
> - Add two-phase commit
> - Create a new role system that replaces users and groups
> - Move /contrib/pgautovacuum into the main server
> - Add shared row level locks using SELECT ... FOR SHARE
> - many many others listed in the HISTORY file
>
> As with all major releases, we need to put the above changes through some
> extensive testing, in as many scenarios as possible, so encourage both
> testing, as well as bug reports.
>
> PostgreSQL 8.1 Beta 1 is now available via:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.1beta
>
> Please report any bugs with this beta to:
>
> pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
> Or through our Bug Reporting Tool available at:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug
>
>
>
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