Andrew Dunstan: PostgreSQL 9.0 - to infinity and beyond!

PostgreSQL 9.0 is out today, and it's a great release. The Hot Standby and Streaming Replication features are eagerly looked forward to by a great many users, and I've already had discussions with clients about migrating. One client in particular will be very glad to have their reliance on trigger based replication (and its concomitant headaches) greatly reduced.

My name is on a few items in the release notes:

• New Makefile targets world, install-world, and installcheck-world


• Verify that PL/Perl return values are valid in the server encoding


• Improve source code test coverage, including contrib, PL/Python, and PL/Perl (with Peter Eisentraut)


• Require Perl version 5.8 or later to build from a CVS checkout (with John Naylor)


• Add query text to contrib/auto_explain output

This is the first release for some years, though, that has not had what I consider a significant feature I have contributed. Various things have conspired to make that so, but I'm intent on contributing much more significantly to the next release. The extensible enums work I have already blogged about is just a part of what I'm hoping to get done.