December 2007 Archives

Gil Scott Heron

bq. Abstraction is the most powerful tool to reduce the complexity of a system and make it understandable. This is an amazingly simple concept that almost everyone ignores totally. They lose because of it. "source":http://xach.livejournal.com/113109.html

Happy birthday!!!

I you are trying to install the latest git on leopard. You must add NO_MSGFMT=1 to your make line for it compile properly.

If you want to learn more about Objective-c and Cocoa this screencast is a great place to start.

Cherokee - GRP All star Big Band

Things to come

Frank is just too funny...

8.3 upcoming Highlights

8.3 has numerous highlights just as previous versions, but we shall focus on our favorite ones.

• Support Security Service Provider Interface (SSPI) for authentication on Windows - which presumably will allow PostgreSQL databases to enjoy the same single signon you get with Microsoft SQL Server 7-2005.
• GSSAPI with Kerberos authentication as a new and improved authentication scheme for single signon
• Numerous performance improvements - too many to itemize
• The new QUERY functionality in plpgsql which offers a simpler way of returning result sets
• Scrollable cursors in PLPgSQL
• Improved shared buffers on windows
• TSearch - Full Text Search is now integrated into PostgreSQL instead of being a contrib module
• Support for SQL/XML and new XML datatype
• ENUM datatype
• New add-on feature to PgAdmin III - a PL debugger most compliments of EnterpriseDB

[source](http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/5-guid.html)