Please check HTML on presskit

[Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>]

Hey,

Can someone check the xhtml in the 8.2 presskit draft within the next 3-4 
days?   Attached.   It's not quite complete (it's missing some sections) 
but the formatting shouldn't change.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
{full text of release here}


PostgreSQL 8.2 Press Kit

PostgreSQL 8.2 Press Kit

Contents

  Text of Original Release
  Additional Features
  Quoted Company Information
  Where to Download
  Documentation
  License
  Contacts
  Corporate Support
  Additional Software
  Translations

Original Press Release

Additional Features in this Release

As well as the major features listed in the press release, there
are more than 200 new features and enhancements contributed by
dozens of developers for version 8.2. Among them are:

• Advisory Locks: allow application-level database object control using PostgreSQL's fast locking engine.
• Selective pg_dump: permits drawing transactionally-consistent dumps of sets of relations, selecting their inclusion/exclusion using regular expressions.
• Prepared Statements: has new administrative interfaces and performance improvements for prepared statements.
• ISN/ISBN: this module, containing data types to support ISN product locators for inventory and retail systems, has been upgraded to support the latest international standards.
• Cryptography: the pgcrypto module, supporting cryptography inside the database, has been updated with the latest algorithms.
• SQL Enhancments: introducing new syntax, including UPDATE RETURNING, DROP IF EXISTS, ON COMMIT and new ownership and permissions commands, to make managing database objects on the command line easier.
• PSQL Batch Selection: supports returning rows to the console in batches instead of all at once.
• ECPG Refactor: the embedded PostgreSQL C interface has been extensively re-written and new interfaces added.
• Major TSearch2 Improvements: UTF-8 support, thesaurus, query rewriting support and GIN indexing.
• PL/Python: now supports named parameters and set returning functions.

PostgreSQL's extensible architecture has led to a large community of extensions ranging from additional procedural languages, interfaces to external systems, new index types, and replication and high availability tools that are hosted on the official PostgreSQL community project site. Community projects that have made significant advances in the 8.2 release cycle include:

• Full Disjunctions: thanks to Google Summer of Code, PostgreSQL is the first database system to have an implementation of this radical new join algorithm.
• PGPoolII: PGPool, under sponsorship from the Japanese Government, has added new load-balancing and partitioning capabilities
• PL/Java: one of our two Java procedural languages has reached full production status, allowing full utilization of Java inside the database.

You can read about the dozens more improvements to 8.2 in the Release Notes.

Full Text of Quotes & Quoted Companies

Where to Download

• List of FTP Mirrors
• Bittorrent
• Windows Installer (also available via Bittorrent)
• Other Binaries, including Linux, Mac OSX and Solaris
• SourceForge (including Windows installer)

Documentation

• Official Documentation
• TechDocs
• Frequently Asked Questions

License

PostgreSQL uses the BSD license, which only requires that the licensed source code maintain its copyright and licensing information. This OSI-certified license is widely appreciated as flexible and business-friendly, since it does not restrict the use of PostgreSQL with commercial and proprietary applications. Together with multi-company support and public ownership of the code, the BSD license makes PostgreSQL very popular with vendors wanting to embed a database in their own products without fear of fees, vendor lock-in, or changes in licensing terms.

Contacts

PostgreSQL home page

General Inquiries:
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Project
+1-415-752-2500
press(at)postgresql(dot)org

For contacts in specific regions, see our international contact list.

Corporate Support

PostgreSQL enjoys the support of numerous companies, who
sponsor developers, provide hosting resources, and give us
financial support.  The largest long-term sponsors are listed
on our development sponsors
page.

There is also a large community of companies offering
PostgreSQL Support, from individual consultants to
multinational companies.

Donations glady accepted.

Links

The main PostgreSQL project is enhanced by more than 100 active sub-projects that provide production-quality solutions for replication, migration, compatibility, interoperability, design and graphical administration tools.

Related Projects

• pgFoundry
• GBorg

Drivers

• JDBC
• ODBC
• .Net
• Perl DBI
• Python

Advanced Feature Packages

• Geographic Information Server (PostGIS)
• Full Text Search (OpenFTS)
• Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (Bizgres)

Graphical User Interfaces

• pgAdmin III
• phpPgAdmin
• List of other GUIs

Replication

• Slony-I
• pgPool
• pgCluster

Official Translations of This Document

• Arabic
• Brazillian Portuguese
• Chinese
• Dutch
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish