From: dujardin@rita.inria.fr (Eric Dujardin)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Announcing POSTGRES version 4
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:02:56 GMT
Organization: INRIA * Rocquencourt BP 105 * F-78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX* France

In article <14121eINNm75@agate.berkeley.edu>, mer@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Meredith) writes:
|> 
|>      Version 4.0 of the POSTGRES DBMS is now available for
|> distribution.  Version 4.0 provides significant advances in
|> functionality over 3.1.  General improvements in the code and some
|> key multi-user bug fixes have resulted in a much more reliable system
|> than we have ever previously released.
|> 
|> 
|> Major new features include:
|> 
|>  o  Complete support for language (POSTQUEL) functions.
|> 
|>  o  Handling of nested dot expressions.
|> 
|>  o  Optimization of predicates with expensive functions.
|> 
|>  o  Binary portals
|> 
|>  o  Initial support of sets
|> 
|>  o  Indices on system catalogs.
|> 
|> Postgres runs on Sparc I, Sparc II, Sun 4 running SunOs, and DECstations
|> running ULTRIX >= 4.0, as well as Sequent Symmetry machines.  Postgres
|> consists of about 250,000 lines of C.
|> 
|> If you would like to get Postgres 4.0, you can get it in one of two ways:
|> 
|> (1)  Anonymous FTP from postgres.berkeley.edu
|> 
|> To FTP postgres to your site, type the following bracketed text without
|> brackets.  You should see similar output.
|> 
|> % ftp 128.32.149.1 
|> 
|> - or -
|> 
|> % ftp postgres.berkeley.edu
|> Connected to 128.32.149.1.
|> 220 postgres FTP server (Version 4.4 Sun Feb 5 07:58:07 PST 1989) ready.
|> Name (128.32.149.1:): [ anonymous ]
|> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
|> Password:[ mylogin@myhost ]
|> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
|> ftp> [ cd pub ]
|> 250 CWD command successful.
|> ftp> [ get postgres-setup.me ]
|> 200 PORT command successful.
|> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for postgres-setup.me (NNNNNNN bytes).
|> ftp> [ binary ]
|> 200 Type set to I.
|> ftp> [ get postgres-v4r0.tar.Z ]
|> 200 PORT command successful.
|> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v4r0.tar.Z (NNNNNNN bytes).
|> 226 Transfer complete.
|> local: postgres-v4r0.tar.Z remote: postgres-v4r0.tar.Z
|> NNNNNNN bytes received in MMM.MM seconds (KK Kbytes/s)
|> ftp> [ quit ]
|> 221 Goodbye.
|> %
|> 
|> Or, if you do not have net.access, you can order a Postgres distribution
|> tape by sending a check payable to
|> 
|> the Regents of the University of California
|> 
|> for $150.00 to:
|> 
|>          Postgres Project
|>          571 Evans Hall
|>          University of California
|>          Berkeley, CA 94720.
|> 
|>      Indicate in your accompanying letter whether  you  want
|>      the  system on a 9-track tape at 1600 BPI, at 6250 BPI,
|>      on a cartridge tape for SUN shoeboxes (QIC 24  format),
|>      or on a TK50 DEC cartridge tape.
|> 
|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Jeff Meredith
|> Postgres Chief Programmer
|> mer@cs.berkeley.edu

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