PostgreSQL 8.3

Has been released. http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48339.

There are some seriously wicked additions in this “point release.” I am a complete postgres zealot as I believe their technology is superior (will happily share my thoughts and real production experience on this), their core team and developers are extraordinarily qualified and the community is incredibly responsive, available, and helpful.

HOT, piggy-backing of sequential table scans, and the new data types (UUID, Enum) are probably my most anticipated for the moment given current workloads but the feature list is stupidly impressive. Pretty much any bullet item I can read and immediately recognize specific areas of our application that will benefit.

I’m going to push this sucker out to production as soon as possible, i’ll post if there are any issues but there won’t be because if I do hit a snag there are people accessible on the mailing lists who will write and provide a patch to fix it faster than Oracle or MS could get the issue typed out in their issue trackers.