PostgreSQL 8.1.0 Officially Released
Posted on 2005-11-09
Posted by press@PostgreSQL.org
Designed, built, and tested by a large and thriving community and backed by a growing number of corporate sponsors and support companies, version 8.1 will expand the scope of PostgreSQL application development.
The new release includes performance improvements and advanced SQL features which will support bigger data warehouses, higher-volume transaction processing, and more complex distributed enterprise software.
Major new features in this release include:
Roles:
PostgreSQL now supports database roles, which simplify the management of large numbers of users with complex overlapping database rights.