8.0 Press Release, Draft Two
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Тема | 8.0 Press Release, Draft Two |
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Ответ на | Re: Back on track -- 8.0 Press Release (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>) |
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Re: 8.0 Press Release, Draft Two
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August 24, 2004 - The PostgreSQL Global Development group today announced the availability of the landmark 8.0 version of the PostgreSQL ORDBMS. PostgreSQL, created in 1986 by UC Berkeley, is the most advanced open source database in existence today. Version 8 is the collective work of over 200 developers. PostgreSQL 8.0 contains many new features that make the database a viable contender in the enterprise against the likes of Oracle and DB2. The full list can be found at the PostgreSQL website, but some of the major features include: Native Windows Support: PostgreSQL now works natively with Windows operating systems and does not need an emulation layer. This provides a big speed boost under Windows and makes PostgreSQL a viable replacement for Microsoft SQL Server. Savepoints: Savepoints allow specific parts of a transaction to be aborted without affecting the whole transaction. This feature, funded by Fujitsu, is valuable for application developers who require error recovery within complex transactions. Point In Time Recovery: PITR expands the PostgreSQL enterprise feature set by providing the ability to recover data to the point of failure or to any transaction in the past. Tablespaces: This feature, funded by Fujitsu, allows the database administrator to choose which filesystems are used for schemas, tables, and indexes. This allows the administrator to place whole databases on separate disks to improve performance. Improved Memory and I/O usage: With this release of PostgreSQL, the memory and disk I/O subsystems have been improved to use shared buffers more effectively. With this improvement comes an increase in speed and performance. Along with the new features come some new addins: - Slony-I is a replication system funded by dot-org domain registry Afilias. - PostgreSQL has gained a number of stored procedure languages, namely PL/PerlNG and PL/PHP which were sponsored by consultancy Command Prompt, Inc. as well as PL/Java and the .Net provider Npgsql. - There are many more features available for anyone who wants to use them. The PostgreSQL database can be downloaded freely at http://www.postgresql.org.
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