Re: Press coverage for 9.1 Beta

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
> Le 03/05/2011 10:24, Dave Page a écrit :
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>> So far:
>>>
>>> http://www.cio.com.au/article/384968/open_source_postgresql_9_1_beta_released/
>>>
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/440666/ (subscriber-only content)
>>>
>>> http://www.databasejournal.com/features/postgresql/article.php/3932351/PostgreSQL-91-Gets-Synchronous.htm
>>
>> I have to wonder why these mention PGXN given that at the moment it's
>> just a download site, providing similar functionality to software
>> catalog on www.postgresql.org.
>>
>> When there is a command line client available, then sure, it should be
>> promoted, but until then it's a WIP (I would say vapourware, but I
>> that seems unfair, as I know David certainly is working on it). We
>> shouldn't be promoting features for which the primary feature isn't
>> yet written in our major version release announcements imnsho.
>>
>
> A command line client written by Daniele Varrazzo is available here:
> https://github.com/dvarrazzo/pgxnclient

Is it a supported client? The pgxn website says there isn't one.

> You can install it by typing :
> $ easy_install pgxnclient

Hmm, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work too well. I tried
installing both pg_top and pg_proctab, and both errored out. Not sure
whose fault that is though, and don't really have time to investigate
now.

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