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PostgreSQL 8.3 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the post-postgre-post dept.

jadavis writes "The release of the long-awaited PostgreSQL version 8.3 has been announced. The new feature list includes HOT, which dramatically improves performance for databases with high update activity; asynchronous commit; built-in full text search; large database features such as synchronized scans and reduced storage overhead; built-in SQL/XML support; spread checkpoints; and many more (too many major new features to list here). See the release notes for full details."

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  1. PostegreSQL 8.3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would that be POSTGR~1.SQL?

  2. Re:asynchronous committ by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haven't you heard? In Web 2.0, data integrity doesn't matter.

  3. Re:And then... by thrillseeker · · Score: 3, Funny

    well, we will just have to polka holes in that discussion

  4. Re:Nice. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    8.3 had me at "full-text search".

    Now, please excuse me while Postgres 8.3 and I go take a little alone-time in a dark closet.

  5. Re:Will it be used? by ByteSlicer · · Score: 5, Funny

    That, and people are more likely to remember 'My' than 'Postgre'.

  6. Re:asynchronous committ by plopez · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would you want to drop the durability part of ACID? Why would you risk losing data for speed?

    SO you can write sloppy inefficient code and do sloppy DBA work and get away with it?

    Just an idea.

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  7. Re:frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Verily sir, when it cometh to failing it, thou art truly a success.

  8. MySQL is FAST, PgSQL FARTs on MySQL's Performance by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fast
    And
    Sorta
    Transactional

    PostgreSQL is
    Fast
    And
    Really
    Transactional

    And under heavy loads with normalized db's PostgreSQL's planner does *much* better than MySQL's.

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  9. You are on to something. by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 5, Funny

    If PostgreSQL changed their name to OurSQL it would be easy to remember, and a sound a lot less selfish than MySQL.

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  10. Re:long live postgres by David_W · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you think of: LLPP (Linux, lighttpd, Perl, PostgreSQL) or something like that.

    My personal favorite is FAPP (FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl).

    ...

    What's so funny?

  11. Re:Will it be used? by Plaid+Phantom · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have a 100 GB database and you're not concerned with stability??

    Do you work for the government?

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  12. Re:Cross Database Joins?? by dfetter · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm looking forward to the hooks you're working on that will make them more efficient :)

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