Download PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 1

The developers of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group have released the first beta version of PostgreSQL 8.3 released. The new version is available from this page for Linux and Windows, among others. PostgreSQL is an open source relational database management system that can be run on various operating systems. The 8.3 series introduces a number of new features and improvements, including an integrated search engine, logging capabilities and necessary performance improvements. What exactly has changed in version 8.3 can be found on this page being read. The most important new features are listed below:

Among the features in the new version are:

• Greatly improved performance consistency, through HOT, Load Distributed Checkpoint, JIT bgwriter, Asynchronous Commit, and other features.
• TSearch2 full text search integrated into the core code with improved syntax and ease of adding custom dictionaries.
• SQL/XML syntax.
• Logging to database-loadable CSV files.
• Automated rebuilding or cached plans.
• ENUMs, UUIDs and arrays of complex types.
• GSSAPI and SSPI authentication support.