I just spoke with Lisa Vaas from eWeek.  She is writing an article on
the upcoming PostgreSQL 7.3 release.  (The release of 7.3 is scheduled
for tomorrow.)

She would like comments from users about the upcoming 7.3 features,
listed at:

	http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3

If you are interested, please reply to this email with any comments you
might have.  I have directed replies to her email address.  She would
like comments within the next few hours, until midnight EST.

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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:20:10 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Request from eWeek for 7.3 comments
Hi Lisa,

I'm the Lead Programmer for a company that specialises in online weight loss
programs in Australia and the USA.

We started off using MySQL but turned to PostgreSQL when it became obvious
that MySQL lacked many necessary features required for a maximum power and
data integrity.

We have followed PostgreSQL through from 7.0 and will upgrade to 7.3 when it
comes out.  Each new version has added an incredible amount of new features.
You only have to compare the release notes of Postgres against other
databases to see how fast Postgres is being developed.

Postgres has a reputation (deserved or not) of being hard to use.  In 7.3 a
lot of work has been done to 'fill in the gaps'.  eg. In 7.3 you are able to
drop columns from tables and change the NOT NULL status of a column easily.
Foreign keys are smarter and are easier to drop and manipulate.

On the other hand, PostgreSQL 7.3 will be great for academic environments.
With the addition of SQL schemas, administrators can now create separate
workspaces for all their users.  Permissions have been greatly improved to
match.  Why pay for an Oracle license or get your students to use MS Access
when PostgreSQL 7.3 will do the job?

Lastly, Postgres 7.3 will be great for power users.  With functions that can
return record sets and prepared queries, more and more enterprises will see
PostgreSQL as a viable backend for their operation.

I haven't even scratched the surface of what's new in 7.3 and why everyone
should be excited!  As always, each new version of PostgreSQL is faster,
more secure and more stable than ever before.

That's why I love PostgreSQL!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "PostgreSQL-general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>;
"PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: [HACKERS] Request from eWeek for 7.3 comments


> I just spoke with Lisa Vaas from eWeek.  She is writing an article on
> the upcoming PostgreSQL 7.3 release.  (The release of 7.3 is scheduled
> for tomorrow.)
>
> She would like comments from users about the upcoming 7.3 features,
> listed at:
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3
>
> If you are interested, please reply to this email with any comments you
> might have.  I have directed replies to her email address.  She would
> like comments within the next few hours, until midnight EST.


Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:57:18 -0800
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Re: Request from eWeek for 7.3 comments
I am the maintainer and lead developer for Bricolage, an 
enterprise-class open-source content management system built on a 
PostgreSQL database. The Bricolage developers really look forward to 
7.3's new features, which, like every release of PostgreSQL, set a new 
standard against which other databases measure themselves.

Particularly important for Bricolage are the ability to drop columns 
and the new support for prepared SQL statements. Every major release of 
Bricolage requires changes to the database, often including the removal 
or change of a table column. Now that PostgreSQL can drop columns, 
future Bricolage upgrades can change database columns without leaving 
deprecated columns in the database.

Furthermore, Bricolage runs in an Apache/mod_perl environment where 
many of the same database queries are executed many times over. The new 
support for prepared statements in PostgreSQL 7.3 will greatly enhance 
performance by reducing the number of times each of those SQL 
statements is prepared by PostgreSQL to once per Apache process -- for 
the lifetime of the process.

These enhancements in PostgreSQL are great because they'll improve not 
just the database, but all applications that are built upon it. The 
speed with which PostgreSQL continues to develop and provide 
trickle-down benefits to the applications that depend upon it is simply 
second-to-none.

Regards,

David

PS: eWeek has covered Bricolage here:

   http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,652977,00.asp

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On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 03:20  PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I just spoke with Lisa Vaas from eWeek.  She is writing an article on
> the upcoming PostgreSQL 7.3 release.  (The release of 7.3 is scheduled
> for tomorrow.)
>
> She would like comments from users about the upcoming 7.3 features,
> listed at:
>
> 	http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3
>
> If you are interested, please reply to this email with any comments you
> might have.  I have directed replies to her email address.  She would
> like comments within the next few hours, until midnight EST.
>
> -- 
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>   pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 359-1001
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>   +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 
> 19073
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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:35:08 -0800
David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>
Re: [HACKERS] Request from eWeek for 7.3 comments
Hello,

    Command Prompt, Inc. looks forward to the open source release of 
PostgreSQL 7.3 as we are testing our commercial version of Mammoth 
PostgreSQL 7.3. The updated
release of the core PostgreSQL code base has added many of the much 
needed, and left behind feature such as drop column. The new features, 
coupled with the additional
features added by Mammoth PostgreSQL such as pre-forked connections, 
stream level compression and Mammoth LXP (the PostgreSQL Application 
server), PostgreSQL
is set to take center stage from products such as MySQL for delivering 
enterprise class applications to the database market.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Co-Founder Command Prompt, Inc.
Co-Author Practical PostgreSQL

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>I just spoke with Lisa Vaas from eWeek.  She is writing an article on
>the upcoming PostgreSQL 7.3 release.  (The release of 7.3 is scheduled
>for tomorrow.)
>
>She would like comments from users about the upcoming 7.3 features,
>listed at:
>
>	http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3
>
>If you are interested, please reply to this email with any comments you
>might have.  I have directed replies to her email address.  She would
>like comments within the next few hours, until midnight EST.
>
>  
>


Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:44:02 -0800
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Re: Request from eWeek for 7.3 comments