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PostgreSQL's performance can be improved by VACUUMing your databases regularly.
PostgreSQL's official birthday is the 8th July. The PostgreSQL project was born in 1996.
The first prototype for the original pgAdmin project was called pgManager and was written for PostgreSQL 6.3.2.
Support for pgAdmin can be requested through the pgadmin-support@postgresql.org mailing list.
New features and developments are discussed by the pgAdmin Developers through the pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org mailing list.
The majority of the pgSchema library used by pgAdmin II was developed on a Windows 2000 laptop in front of a TV near Oxford, England!
You can change your password by selecting 'Change Password' from the 'File' menu.
The Definition Pane displays the reversed engineered SQL for the selected object.
The meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.
The pgAdmin core developers are based in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the US.
PostgreSQL 7.2 supports tables without OID columns in order to cut down on OID usage.
In PostgreSQL 7.2 you can monitor system activity on a per connection basis using 'SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity'.
There are a number of useful files, tools and projects included with PostgreSQL in the /contrib directory of the source tree.
PostgreSQL's procedural languages include pl/pgSQL, pl/Python, pl/TCL, pl/Perl & pl/sh.
pgAdmin II was downloaded over 10,000 times *before* the first release quality version was available!
The first stable version of pgAdmin II was downloaded over 35,000 times in the first 6 months following it's release.
The rserv project in PostgreSQL's contrib directory can be used for Master -> Slave replication.
The first official stable version of pgAdmin II was released on 16 January 2002.
Development of the pgAdmin III project started on the 29th September 2002.
pgAdmin III is a completely new version of pgAdmin written in C++ using the wxWindows framework to allow it to run on Windows and *nix systems.
pgAdmin is released under the Open Source 'Artistic Licence'.
PostgreSQL 7.3 supports schemas which are individual namespaces within databases.
Domains may be used to create predefined data types based on more generic base types.
pgAdmin III 1.0.0 was packaged for release on the 26th Sepetember 2003.
PostgreSQL's planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match.
You shouldn't 'kill -9' the postmaster!!
'EXPLAIN ANALYZE' and the 'Explain Query' button are your friends when optimising SQL queries.
PostgreSQL 8.0 added major new features to our DBMS including savepoints, tablespaces and the long awaited Windows port.
pgAdmin III supports SSL encrypted connections.
The new Win32 port PostgreSQL passed all it's regression tests for the first time on 2004-10-24.
The Windows port of PostgreSQL was downloaded over 45,000 times in the five days following its initial release!
