== PostgreSQL Weekly News - September 05 2005 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - September 05 2005 ==

There has been a lively discussion on supporting locales with
collation.  It appears that PostgreSQL may get a large new capability
on this front for 8.2.

SCALE 4x, the Southern California Linux Expo is calling for papers.
See below for details.
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org

Mark Wong of OSDL has started work on dbt-4, a fair use implementation
of TPC-App.  TPC-App is a b2b web services workload, and Mark would
like some more help from Java developers.

There are lots of new developers on the developers' bio page
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/bios

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

EMS PostgreSQL Manager 3.2 for Windows released.
http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager/

PostgresDAC 2.2.1 released.
http://www.microolap.com/products/connectivity/postgresdac/

pgPool 2.6.3 released
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/

Bugzilla's last impediment to using PostgreSQL as a back-end is now
gone.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304

PostgreSQL RPM Building Project
(http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgsqlrpms) has built RPMs for Red Hat
Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.  More may come later.
http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/rpms/8.1/beta1/rpms/

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