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PostgreSQL 7.3 Released

Posted by michael on from the oracle-killer dept.

rtaylor writes "Nearly a year's worth of work is out. The new tricks include schema support, prepared queries, dependency tracking, improved privileges, table (record) based functions, improved internationalization support, and a whole slew of other new features, fixes, and performance improvements. Release Email - Download Here - Mirror FTP sites (at bottom)."

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  1. IN SOVIET LITHUANIA by hasse · · Score: 0, Funny

    Mysql postgresql YOU!

  2. FINALLY!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dancing Girls
    The PostgreSQL now includes a number of beautiful dancing girls

    I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this feature! Now I can get rid of Oracle for GOOD!!

    Kudos to the PostgreSQL team!

    1. Re:FINALLY!! by IrvineHosting · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't know about dancing girls...


      but with the money you saved using PostgreSQL instead of Oracle, you could afford to get a prostitute every week for the next two years.


      and that counts for something!

  3. Re:Cool! PostgreSQL always runs on my iBook by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Funny
    My boss is particularly fond of it. He uses it across our extra-intranet to leverage our Extreme Programming synergies across the multiple platforms we support. With PostgreSQL, we can proactively manage our solutions database, enabling drilling down through datasets to empower our associates in building our paradigm.

    Of course, he uses it on a Thinkpad, but you have to spend money to make money.

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    You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
  4. Re:Cool! PostgreSQL always runs on my iBook by Richard_at_work · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa, buzzword attack!

    /me gets tinfoil hat

  5. Re:Question by alacqua · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...so I was typing my term paper on my beowulf cluster which was running MySQL, when all of a sudden - bleep, bleep, bleep! And like my term paper was gone. Then dad got PostgreSQL and we haven't had any trouble since. ACID man, ACID.

    ...just wanted to see how many I could get into one post.

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    Move on. There's nothing to see here.
  6. Re:Shocking arrogance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    That's hilarious.


    FWIW, I once fixed up a company hopelessly wedded
    to Oracle by essentially replacing all their
    reporting systems by just:

    • Dumping all tables as ascii
    • Using Unix cut/join/sort to put them together
    • Using Unix awk to make the reports they wanted

    The end result ran under 10 minutes, while the old
    crap took overnight.


    My motto has always been, get the sh*t out of
    the fabled "DB" as soon as you can. Then you
    can use awk/python/perl whatever to actually
    do something useful with it.

  7. Maybe if... by WebCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...mySQL had proper, full support for constraints Slashdot wouldn't post so damn many duplicate articles...

    HAR HAR HAR...just jokin' around...pleeeeze don't kill me.....

  8. Re:Hm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    try an ethernet cable

  9. Re:Im not trolling but..... by symbolic · · Score: 3, Funny

    A more realistic test would have been 1000000 rows in 15-20 tables. That's more on the line of the kind of system I've seen. Maybe on the small side.

    We tried to arrange for some time on a massive beowulf cluster equipped with a 3 TB RAID and several GB of memory installed so that we could test against 1000000000 records and 52.7 tables, but they were booked solid.

    Needless to say, I can assure you that based on the client's needs, the test I outlined (as inconsequential as it may seem), was quite appropriate.