kemnitz@gaia.berkeley.edu (Greg Kemnitz) (03/13/91)
Version 2, release 1 of the public-domain POSTGRES DBMS is now available
for distribution. Upgrades over Version 2 release 03 include the following:
1. Rtree indices, as well as many fixes to bugs and performance enhancements
in the indexing code.
2. A revamped "postmaster" program.
3. A rewritten buffer manager.
4. Many upgrades to the rule system.
5. A much more flexible "copy" command.
Note: to those who may have already obtained the system and encountered a
bug, you may want to get the patch file from postgres.berkeley.edu - it fixes
a bug that appeared on Sparcstations which prevent the use of Postgres. If
you get the patch, use the following means to install it:
(in the postgres home directory)
% uncompress patch.tar.Z
% tar xvf patch.tar
% rm newconf/everything.stat
% cd newconf
% Make install
The current distribution file includes the patch and it is not necessary to
get the patch if you are getting the whole distribution.
Postgres runs on diskful Sun 3's running all known flavors of SunOS, on
Sparcstations, on DECstation 3100 or 5000's running Ultrix (preferably >= 4.0),
and on Sequent Symmetry machines. Postgres consists of about 180,000 lines of
C.
If you would like the current system, you can get it in
one of two ways:
(1) Send a check payable to the Regents of the University
of California for $150.00 to:
Postgres Project
521 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.
(2) FTP the code to your site over the net by typing
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-v2r1.tar.Z ]
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v1r3.new.tar.Z (NNNNNNN bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: postgres-v2r1.tar.Z remote: postgres-v2r1.tar.Z
NNNNNNN bytes received in MMM.MM seconds (KK Kbytes/s)
ftp> [ quit ]
221 Goodbye.
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Greg Kemnitz | "I ran out of the room - I
Postgres Chief Programmer | didn't want to be killed by a pile
kemnitz@postgres.berkeley.edu | of ULTRIX manuals" :-)
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