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stuff from linux.announce: new pcmisc, new PostgreSQL




Version 16 of psmisc is available at

    ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/psmisc

and soon also at

    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/status/ps

...... and its mirrors.

psmisc is a collection of the following /proc-based utilities:
  fuser     identifies processes using files
  killall   kills processes by name
  pidof     lists PIDs of processes specified by name
  pstree    shows the currently running processes as a tree

This is yet another bugfix release. I've attached the list of changes.

By the way, I've noticed that some Linux distributions contain very old
versions of psmisc. Given that many useful features have been added in
recent years, an update may be worth some consideration ...

- - Werner
-------------------------------------------------


PostgreSQL 6.1.1 has been released, and can be gotten from:

        ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-v6.1.1.tar.gz

The release fixes various bugs in 6.1 and adds a few nice new features.

This release does NOT require a dump/restore for those running 6.1.

A patch from 6.1 to 6.1.1 does not exist due to the nature of the
changes in this release.


Changes in this release
- - -----------------------
fix for SET with options (Thomas)
allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce)
new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without chaning
databases
fix for initdb --debug option(Yoshihiko Ichikawa))
lextest cleanup(Bruce)
hash fixes(Vadim)
fix date/time month boundary arithmetic(Thomas)
fix timezone daylight handling for some ports(Thomas, Bruce, Tatsuo)
timestamp overhauled to use standard functions(Thomas)
other code cleanup in date/time routines(Thomas)
psql's \d now case-insensitive(Bruce)
psql's backslash commands can now have trailing semicolon(Bruce)
fix memory leak in psql when using \g(Bruce)
major fix for endian handling of communication to server(Thomas, Tatsuo)
Fix for Solaris assembler and include files(Yoshihiko Ichikawa)
allow underscores in usernames(Bruce)
pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce)

What is it?
- -----------
PostgreSQL Version 6.1.1 RDBMS database ANSI SQL 92 compliant -
a free database, complete source code is given
to you and is a Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92
and SQL89 and runs on diverse hardware platforms and Operating
systems. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as data servers, data
center servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and
application servers.

PostgreSQL is the ONLY FREE database in the world which supports ANSI
SQL standards like SQL92, SQL89, ISO SQL. It is much more advanced and
is a object oriented relational database. PostgreSQL can store more data
types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters,etc. - it
can store object datatypes like classes (Version 7.0 will make this
capabilities more advanced).

PostgreSQL runs on Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, and
each & every flavor of unix. Port to Windows 95/NT is underway.

In america PostgreSQL is also called
as 'pgsql' (pro-nounced as "pee-gee-sequel").

How can I trust it?
- -------------------
Regression test package is included in the distribution and let your
computer do the verfication for you to check if all the ANSI SQL 92
/ISO SQL commands run as per technical specifications.

What is its Description?
- ------------------------
  Title:             PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database
               (Relational Database Management System)
  Version:           6.1.1
  Date of Release :  22 July 1997
  Age:                   PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985
  Description:       Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase,
               Informix

  Authors:           Developed by millions/universities/companies on
               internet for the past 12 YEARS

  Primary WWW:       http://www.postgresql.org/
  Secondary WWW:     http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/
               http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/
               http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/

  "Binaries only" distribution of PostgreSQL : You can run PostgreSQL
without
          compiling the source. Get binaries for Intel-Linux from
          ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/
postgresql-6.1-6.i386.rpm

  Primary FTP:       ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub
  Secondary ftp:     ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql
               ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/
          ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95
               ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL
               ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95
               ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95
               ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95

  A Variant of PostgreSQL is Commercialised:
               PostgreSQL (variant) is commercialised & sold by
               Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by
               Informix Inc.)
               http://www.illustra.com

What can it do for me?
- ----------------------
  GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL :
               PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution.
               TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more
               powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once
               and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, all unixes!!
               To get TCL/TK -
                  http://sunscript.sun.com/
               http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/
               ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z

  ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL :
               http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/
               http://www.openlinksw.com

  UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC
               independent of driver managers and DLL support,
               used to embed database connectivity support
               directly into applications.
               http://www.openlinksw.com

  JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL
               http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html
               ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz
               http://www.openlinksw.com

  Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL:    Java Rapid Application Tool for
               PostgreSQL
                  http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html

  Java Classes for PostgreSQL :
               http://www.blackdown.org

  Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : It included in the distribution of
          PostgreSQL. Check in src/pgsql_perl5 directory.
               Email: E.Mergl@bawue.de
          Perl Home page : http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html

  Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL):
               Email: keidav@whidbey.com
               http://www.troubador.com/~keidav/index.html
               http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html
               Email: de@ucolick.org
               Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL!

  Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals):
               Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very
               similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus.

  PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications:
               http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html

  Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL:
          http://www.oswego.edu/Earp/

  WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL:
               http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/

  Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL:
               http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/

  PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL
               (WWW Interface Tool):
               http://www.vex.net/php

  Python Interface for PostgreSQL : PyGres95 is a python interface
     for the PostgreSQL. It is available from
ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/python/contrib/Database/PyGres95-1.0b.tar.gz

  Wdb-p95 Gateway between PostgreSQL and the WWW: It is at
     http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95/

  "C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
               'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib,
                Informix CLI libraries.

  "C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
               'libpq++'.

  PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C,
               Informix ESQL/C:
               ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus
               Email : linus@epact.se

  Japanese Kanji Code with PostgreSQL: It is at the following site
     ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/cmd/postgres/

  Tested Platforms:  Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX,
                     Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix,
                     NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, etc
               All flavors of unix.
               Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32,
               GNU gcc is available for win32. Check this site -
               http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32
               Go here and get the file cdk.exe (self-extractor)
     (OR) You can buy Softway Open NT-UNIX for NT and gcc from
               http://www.softway.com
          and compile the source code.

  Mailing Lists: See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page.
     Email questions to:
          pgsql-questions@postgresql.org
          pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

     To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to
          pgsql-questions-request@postgresql.org
          pgsql-hackers-request@postgresql.org
     The body of the message should contain the single line
          subscribe
          (or)
          unsubscribe

 Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide'
           for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing
           database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals,
           online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in
           Postscript format for printing hard copies.

 Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New
     SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simon
     Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Hundreds of
     other titles on SQL are available! Check out a bookstore.

 Technical support for PostgreSQL : You can purchase technical support
     from the following companies/corporations -
          http://www.redhat.com
          http://www.caldera.com
          http://www.wgs.com
          http://www.yggdrasil.com

 Free Unix:    Get a free Linux OS - a quality solution from operating
          system to database to front-end gui application -
          Check out these sites:
               http://www.lsl.com
               http://www.caldera.com
               http://www.redhat.com

#include <all standard disclaimers - opinions are mine only>