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- From: dujardin@rita.inria.fr (Eric Dujardin)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Announcing POSTGRES version 4
- Message-ID: <4026@seti.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 10:02:56 GMT
- References: <14121eINNm75@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <14121eINNm75@agate.berkeley.edu>, mer@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Meredith) writes:
- |>
- |> Version 4.0 of the POSTGRES DBMS is now available for
- |> distribution. Version 4.0 provides significant advances in
- |> functionality over 3.1. General improvements in the code and some
- |> key multi-user bug fixes have resulted in a much more reliable system
- |> than we have ever previously released.
- |>
- |>
- |> Major new features include:
- |>
- |> o Complete support for language (POSTQUEL) functions.
- |>
- |> o Handling of nested dot expressions.
- |>
- |> o Optimization of predicates with expensive functions.
- |>
- |> o Binary portals
- |>
- |> o Initial support of sets
- |>
- |> o Indices on system catalogs.
- |>
- |> Postgres runs on Sparc I, Sparc II, Sun 4 running SunOs, and DECstations
- |> running ULTRIX >= 4.0, as well as Sequent Symmetry machines. Postgres
- |> consists of about 250,000 lines of C.
- |>
- |> If you would like to get Postgres 4.0, you can get it in one of two ways:
- |>
- |> (1) Anonymous FTP from postgres.berkeley.edu
- |>
- |> To FTP postgres to your site, type the following bracketed text without
- |> brackets. You should see similar output.
- |>
- |> % ftp 128.32.149.1
- |>
- |> - or -
- |>
- |> % ftp postgres.berkeley.edu
- |> Connected to 128.32.149.1.
- |> 220 postgres FTP server (Version 4.4 Sun Feb 5 07:58:07 PST 1989) ready.
- |> Name (128.32.149.1:): [ anonymous ]
- |> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
- |> Password:[ mylogin@myhost ]
- |> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- |> ftp> [ cd pub ]
- |> 250 CWD command successful.
- |> ftp> [ get postgres-setup.me ]
- |> 200 PORT command successful.
- |> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for postgres-setup.me (NNNNNNN bytes).
- |> ftp> [ binary ]
- |> 200 Type set to I.
- |> ftp> [ get postgres-v4r0.tar.Z ]
- |> 200 PORT command successful.
- |> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v4r0.tar.Z (NNNNNNN bytes).
- |> 226 Transfer complete.
- |> local: postgres-v4r0.tar.Z remote: postgres-v4r0.tar.Z
- |> NNNNNNN bytes received in MMM.MM seconds (KK Kbytes/s)
- |> ftp> [ quit ]
- |> 221 Goodbye.
- |> %
- |>
- |> Or, if you do not have net.access, you can order a Postgres distribution
- |> tape by sending a check payable to
- |>
- |> the Regents of the University of California
- |>
- |> for $150.00 to:
- |>
- |> Postgres Project
- |> 571 Evans Hall
- |> University of California
- |> Berkeley, CA 94720.
- |>
- |> Indicate in your accompanying letter whether you want
- |> the system on a 9-track tape at 1600 BPI, at 6250 BPI,
- |> on a cartridge tape for SUN shoeboxes (QIC 24 format),
- |> or on a TK50 DEC cartridge tape.
- |>
- |> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Jeff Meredith
- |> Postgres Chief Programmer
- |> mer@cs.berkeley.edu
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