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waiting for pg 8.4

i will try to follow development of 8.4, and write examples of what's possible with it, based on current HEAD code.

of course there is no guarantee that it will work in final, released 8.4 (it is a bit too early to talk about it, but given the fact that the patch got committed, there is pretty good chance we will see it whenever 8.4 will be released.

today 2 new features: limit (select ) and optional as in select.

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smtp + sql = more than it seems so (part 3)

at the end of last part of this text, i finished having ready postgresql and exim (pop/imap installed but not configured), with exim being able to ask postgresql whether given domain is local. now, let the saga continue.

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smtp + sql = more than it seems so (part 2)

in first part of this text i described how i installed base ubuntu system in chroot, and then got exim, courier and postgresql in there. now to some configuration.

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smtp + sql = more than it seems so (part 1)

for quite some time i wanted to write about my experiences with combining smtp server with sql server.

this subject for some people might be too boring, for others – it might be seen as a simple howto. but in my opinion it clearly shows that when you combine 2 such technologies outcome is much better then it would seem (it's called synergy in merketoid-speak).

this subject will be divided into several parts, that will be posted separately (yeah, let's get some traffic to website 🙂

also, i hope to extend it in future if/when i'll find something else that can be added/changed in proposed solution.

so, without further ado, let's start:

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it’s coming, it’s coming, it’s here, have no fear

(pgdba@[LOCAL]:5830) 21:45:26 [pgdba]
# SELECT version();
                                                        version
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 PostgreSQL 8.3.0 ON i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled BY GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
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