[Devil-linux-software] PostgreSQL 8.4.0 has been released [freshmeat.net]

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Dear freshmeat.net subscriber,

scrappy just announced version 8.4.0 of PostgreSQL on freshmeat.net.

The changes are as follows:

Parallel Database Restore, speeding up recovery from backup up to 8 times.
Per-Column Permissions, allowing more granular control of sensitive data.
Per-database Collation Support, making PostgreSQL more useful in multi-lingual
environments. In-place Upgrades through pg_migrator (beta), enabling upgrades
from 8.3 to 8.4 without extensive downtime. New Query Monitoring Tools, giving
administrators more insight into query activity. Greatly reduced VACUUM overhead
through the Visibility Map. New monitoring tools for current queries, query
load, and deadlocks.

Project description:

PostgreSQL is a robust relational database system with more than 20 years of
active development that runs on all major operating systems. It is fully ACID
compliant, and has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and
stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data
types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and
TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures,
sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net,
Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.

Detailed history and release notes are available here:

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/pgsql#release_301842

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