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- From: mer@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Meredith)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives
- Subject: [comp.databases] POSTGRES v4.0.1 announcement
- Followup-To: comp.databases
- Date: 1 Sep 1992 23:55:03 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.databases/POSTGRES-v4-0-1-announcement
-
-
- Version 4.0.1 of the POSTGRES DBMS is now available for
- distribution. 4.0.1 provides many bug fixes over version 4.0.
- Version 4 added a lot of new functionality, a lot of new code, and
- therefore a lot of new bugs. Thanks to those of you who spent time
- helping us uncover and pinpoint problems.
-
- Among the key changes in 4.0.1 are:
-
- o More multi-user fixes. We now believe POSTGRES to be a much more
- reliable multi-user system.
-
- o Disk page and shared memory page doctor programs.
-
- o 4.0 databases will copy straight across without doing the POSTGRES
- copy to / copy from conversion dance.
-
- o Performance tuning. Some of the fat has been trimmed off of 4.0.
-
- Also, as of 4.0.1 we will be making a POSTGRES 'developers distribution'
- available. This package will consist of the standard distribution plus
- the entire RCS history of the code along with some system validation tests.
- It can be found in ~ftp/pub/postgres-developer.tar.Z.
-
- Postgres runs on Sparc I, Sparc II, Sun 4 running SunOs, and DECstations
- running ULTRIX >= 4.0. Postgres consists of about 250,000 lines of C.
-
- If you would like to get Postgres 4.0.1, you can do so 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 (N bytes).
- ftp> [ binary ]
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> [ get postgres-v4r0r1.tar.Z ]
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v4r0r1.tar.Z (N bytes).
- 226 Transfer complete.
- local: postgres-v4r0.tar.Z remote: postgres-v4r0.tar.Z
- N 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
- 557 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@postgres.berkeley.edu
-
-