PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released

After more than a year of hard work, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group proudly announces the release of version 8.0.0 of the PostgreSQL ORDBMS. This release involves possibly more major changes than any prior version of PostgreSQL since 6.3, including:

Native Windows port

Savepoints/nested transactions

Exception handling inside functions

Tablespaces

Point in time recovery

Improved shared buffer management

Background writer process to reduce checkpoint impact

Tunable delays to reduce the impact of VACUUM

Overhaul of pg_dump and pg_restore

Expanded log format options and log rotation

Improved embedded quote handling for functions

ALTER TABLE can alter the data type of an existing column

Improved ALTER capabilities for all database objects

Major changes in this release

P.S. The mysql2psql Project :-)