[plug] New(ish) release of PostgreSQL

[Leon Brooks]

Peter Wright wrote:
> It was pointed out that
> PostgreSQL (probably the closest to a "serious" open-source database)
> lacked a number of significant features as compared to most commercial
> database systems.

> I went to the main site
> to check out the current situation. Found out that as of 9/5, they have
> increased a major version number(!) and are now at version 7.0.

Version 7.1 will be much faster and will lose some of the existing
limitations (e.e. non-blob dataset maxes out at 8kB/row), as major
pieces of the low-end stuff is undergoing a rewrite for it. They're also
planning at add some more SQL-completeness features. As I understand it,
this work has been done more or less in parallel to stabilising 7.0, so
a 7.1 release should be close at hand.

Recently, pgsql.com saw a $US25M funds injection, which should do
_something_ to it. (-:

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