PostgreSQL 9.0 with a whole lot of new features and improvements is nearing completion. The first release candidate was just announced.
As with the beta versions, I uploaded RC1 to Debian experimental again. If you want to test/use them on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), you can get packages from my “PostgreSQL backports for stable Ubuntu releases” PPA. Please let me know if you need them for other releases.
Just for the records, both Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” will release and officially support 8.4 only, as 9.0 is too late for the feature freezes of both. Also, it will take quite some time to update all the packaged extensions to 9.0. As usual, 9.0 will be provided as official backports for both Debian and Ubuntu.
Happy testing!
#1 by jimcooncat on 2010/09/01 - 15:10
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This is absolutely wonderful that affordable, easy-to-use database replication will be available to the masses. I hope that businesses (and local governments!) will realize that there is an alternative to proprietary systems, one that can be freely distributed. Thank you and the other postgresql people, and it’s amazing that backports are already being planned on release!
#2 by Charles on 2010/09/01 - 19:49
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It’s also worth noting that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (and thus CentOS 6) are also going to ship 8.4. Hopefully there will only be the normal two year gap between 6 and 7, unlike the 3.5 year gap between 5 and 6.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Beta_2_Release_Notes/databases.html#id417480
#3 by Frank on 2010/09/02 - 14:54
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Too bad PostgreSQL 9.0.0 is too late for Ubuntu 10.10, but a backport will be fine as well.
Keep up the good work!
#4 by someone on 2010/09/05 - 07:35
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Could you add this to Planet Debian too?
http://wiki.debian.org/PlanetDebian
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