Thanks to Kaare Rasmussen
for this link.
After several months of intense development, and only almost two
months of testing and bug fixes, we are pleased to announce the
release of PostgreSQL v6.5 …
Due to the huge number of changes and improvements made in this
last development cycle, it is highly recommended that you scan
through the HISTORY file, but a few of the major
changes/improvements are:
Multi-version concurrency control(MVCC)
This removes our old table-level locking, and replaces it with a
locking system that is superior to most commercial database systems.
Hot backups from pg_dump
New SQL features
We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement support. We have
new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL, SELECT ... FOR
UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
Ports
We continue to expand our port list, this time including WinNT/ix86
and NetBSD/arm32.
and SpeedUps to several key areas within the system, to improve
performance...as well as improved resource utilitization enhancements.
This new release of PostgreSQL is available via:
http://www.postgresql.org -> Software -> Download