PostgreSQL 8.1 Available

atani writes "PostgreSQL 8.1 has been posted, though not officially announced as of this moment. This release includes two-phased commits, improved SMP and overall performance, a new role system replaces the older user/group, autovacuum is now within the backend rather than a separate contrib module, and various improvements, performance enhancements, and bugfixes. " You can also read the developer notes for the popular database. One thing is clear- with the newest Postresql and MySql, you have much to choose from.

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Not announced

[Anonymous Coward]

PostgreSQL 8.1 has been posted, though not officially announced as of this moment.

They were probably waiting for their mirrors to finish syncing before some yo-yo posted to /. and caused every other yo-yo to start downloading.

Re:MySQL vs. PostgreSQL

[kashani]

I'm and ISP/hosting geek as well and see exactly the same thing. Hundreds of Mysql users and one Postgres user. And pretty much the same thing in the users code and databases. My favorite being the 30 minute query which I fixed by suggesting that a 2 million row tables should probably use a int(11) as a primary key instead of a (128)varchar containing the users email address. They still think I'm a genius.

kashani