The pgAdmin Development Team are pleased to announce the first stable release of pgAdmin III, an Open Source management
andadministration tool for the PostgreSQL Object Relational Database Management System.
pgAdmin III is the latest generation of the pgAdmin application. Originally released in 1997, pgAdmin is used by tens
ofthousands of developers worldwide. The third generation release includes features such as:
- Support for Windows, Linux and BSD platforms.
- Support for Unicode/Multibyte databases.
- Management of multiple servers in a single session.
- SSL encryption.
- Fast, multi-threaded query tool with query plan display.
- Data viewing/editting grid.
- Database object browser and create/edit tools for virtually all PostgreSQL object types
- Translations into nearly 30 languages including Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Danish, English, German, Greek, Spanish, Farsi,
French,Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese simplified
andChinese traditional.
- Searchable online documentation including context sensitive links directly into relevant sections of the supplied
PostgreSQL7.4 documentation.
- Database maintenance tools including:
o VACUUM
o ANALYZE
o REINDEX
For more details, please visit the pgAdmin website:
http://www.pgadmin.org/
Binary distributions for various Linux platforms, FreeBSD and Windows 2000/XP/2003, as well as the source code can be
downloadedfrom your favourite PostgreSQL FTP mirror:
http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/download.php
pgAdmin III is released under the Artistic Licence.
The Development Team would like to thank all the hackers, port maintainers, translators and testers that have given up
theirvaluable time to help with the development of pgAdmin III over the last twelve months.
Regards, Dave.