kemnitz@HERMES.BERKELEY.EDU (Greg Kemnitz) (11/03/90)
Postgres 2.01 Now Available The 2.01 release of Postgres will fix bugs that were present in 2.0, be somewhat faster, and has several functional upgrades over 2.0, including: o Full support for Sparcstations (including ADT's), and a fully functional dynamic loader. o Many bugs fixed in the query rewrite rule system. o The version system is now available. o Many other fixes and improvements. Supported ports of Version 2.01 of Postgres are for DECstation 3100 running Ultrix less than 4.0, Sun 3, and Sparcstation/Sun 4. Obtaining Postgres: You can obtain Postgres by either ordering a tape or via anonymous FTP. Here's how: (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-v2r01.tar.Z ] 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for postgres-v2r01.new.tar.Z (NNNNNNN bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: postgres-v2r01.tar.Z remote: postgres-v2r01.tar.Z NNNNNNN bytes received in MMM.MM seconds (KK Kbytes/s) ftp> [ quit ] 221 Goodbye. % Getting Postgres Papers: You can obtain papers about Postgres by anonymous FTP or by ordering hard copies. A file containing the Postgres papers is available for FTP and is called pub/postgres-papers.tar.Z Please use the above FTP instructions to get these papers (including transfering the file in BINARY mode). (NOTE: If you obtained the full Postgres distribution, these papers are in the doc and ref subdirectories.) If you don't have access to the net, you can order hardcopies by sending a check payable to U. C. Regents to the following address: Jeff Wilkenson Electronics Research Laboratory 253M Cory Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Reports are $5.00 + 10 cents per page, and there is a limit of six (6) reports per order. Please specify the paper number and title when ordering. M85/59 Extending a Database System w/Procedures (revised) 30 pages M85/67 Inclusion of New Types in Relational Database Systems 21 pages M85/95 The Design of POSTGRES 32 pages M86/40 A Shared Object Hierarchy (revised) 27 pages M86/59 Object Management in POSTGRES using Procedures 14 pages M86/85 The POSTGRES Papers 115 pages M87/6 The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System 22 pages M87/13 The POSTGRES Data Model 14 pages M87/20 * Picasso Status Report 9 pages M87/38 A Rule Manager for Relational Database Systems 22 pages M88/7 Future Trends in Data Base Systems 19 pages M88/20 The POSTGRES Reference Manual (Revised) 117 pages * NOT included in the TAR file when obtained via FTP. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" :-) | | --A friend at DEC Palo Alto in the Quake