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12th December 2007 - Link Blog

PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 4 release notes. In addition to the huge speed improvements, 8.3 adds support for XML, UUID and ENUM data types and brings full text (tsearch2) in to the core database engine.

Posted 12th December 2007 at 12:43 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 12th December 2007.

beta 3 databases 113 enum 1 full-text-search 21 postgresql 160 tsearch2 1 uuid 6 xml 105

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