I was just looking at all the upcoming features scheduled to make it into 8.3, and with all those goodies, wouldn't it make sense for this to be a 9.0 release instead of an 8.3? It looks like postgresql is rapidly catching up to oracle if 8.3 branch gets every feature scheduled for it. About the only big features pg 8.3 doesn't have is materialized views and RMAN.. Now that PostgreSQL is getting so close to oracle functionality, is there any worry in the community that oracle will begin to target postgres like they're targeting mySQL? regards, karen