Random Ramblings

Some random noise for the old blog...

First off, an article by Jason Gilmore discusses 5 outdated reasons why people don't choose PostgreSQL. pgAdmin gets a mention under the No professional development and administration tools section. The article was picked up and discussed in depth on Slashdot.

Second, (in a shameless plug) a small site I've been developing in spare five minute sessions for my wife Jo went live the other day.www.jo-jos-jewellery.co.uk is powered by PostgreSQL 8.1 (of course), running with Apache and PHP on FreeBSD. The more interesting part of the work was interfacing the site with Paypal who provide some great resources for developers, including an extremely useful sandbox version of their site for developers to test and experiment with.

'Nothing spectacular' I hear some of you cry - well, perhaps not. Certainly technically there's nothing particularly difficult in the site code, but coming from a decidedly non-commercial work environment as I do it made a very refreshing and welcome change to do something completely different. Now if only I could get my head round Google Adwords...

pgAdmin III v1.4.2 Released

The pgAdmin Development Team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.2 of pgAdmin, the Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL 7.3 and above. pgAdmin can be run on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Solaris and Windows. For more information, please see the website at:

http://www.pgadmin.org/

pgAdmin can be downloaded free of charge from:

http://www.pgadmin.org/download/

This version is a bug fix release containing the following changes:

• Fix a typo in the admin pack README [August Zajonc].
• Fix serial column detection for 8.1 per Kris Jurka.
• Mask the password when logging the connection string.
• Properly escape single quotes in connection strings.
• Re-arrange the Win32 dependencies so that iconv, libxml2 and wxwidgets are located in $PGADIR/../pgadmin3-deps/.
• Properly enable the redo button in the Query Tool when appropriate, per PromoTrade.
• Add missing files to the Unix tarball, per Andrus - xtra/wxbuild/*, src/utils/precomp.cpp, src/main/pgAdmin3.rc.
• Read config files in the local encoding scheme.
• Display the definition of set returning procedures correctly.
• Fix drop procedure by including IN/OUT parameter flags in the name.
• Fix role SQL - correctly define CREATEROLE/NOCREATEROLE per Andrus.
• Honour the copy quoting setting properly in the SQL results pane.
• Set the initial Unicode/Local charset options correctly in the Export dialogue.
• Fix PK detection in EditGrid per Andrus Moor.
• Fix Bitmap Index explain per Alexander Kirpa.
• Use ELSIF not ELSEIF in pgagent.sql for compatibility with 7.x servers [Glen Sasek].
• Exclude system schemas by name rather than OID, so that 'public' can be safely renamed.
• fix slony node statistics.
• Fix: Unsubscribe set on receiver.
• Another wxComboBox(2.6.2) related fix.

Dave Page
pgAdmin Development Team