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The numbering made me think of a stable release but it's 9.0 beta4, not 9.0.4.
And 9.0 RC1 is available now.

and i thought Oracle killed it

It never was Oracle's, was it? Are you thinking of MySQL?

i was taking about this http://java.dzone.com/news/oracle-pulls-rug-out-under


Long live PSQL, death to oracle

Very nice. After Oracle's public display of idiocy, I have been curious about alternatives to MySQL. I am from a MS SQL Server background, but have used MySQL quite a bit. My only concern now with PostgreSQL is that it has become too big. Not bloated, mind you, not as in slow or big binaries, but too much in terms of moving parts. I was already getting overwhelmed with SQL Server having five or so separate components for things like reporting and analysis. But I snagged the free EnterpriseDB flavor of PostgreSQL and I was impressed (in a somewhat unflattering way) by how many separate components are offered up in the installer and the footprint it has now made on my Windows desktop with a system tray notification icon constantly giving me notices of updates and with its creation of a new Windows user account that shows up when I log in now (have to disable that)... PostgreSQL is leaving quite a footprint and all I really want is a simple but scalable way to persist data. I can't help but admire the NoSQL offerings.

Perhaps I was never intended to be part of its intended audience, in which case neither are MySQL refugees. Perhaps PostgreSQL is an enterprise product, period.

On the other hand, no one ever told me to download the EnterpriseDB flavor.

Those problem were in version 8

Er, I just installed a couple weeks ago. It's 9.x...

Well, I've been using PostgreSQL since version 7.something (for about 6 years now) for all my web related projects, and I must say - I fell in love with all the features it offered back then compared to MySQL 4. Now it's mostly a matter of habit - I just love the console, the query analyzing, and since version 8.2 they have finally managed to get it fully functional with unicode, because most of my projects require latin, cyrillic and baltic characters in one table. I can't live without sequences - sounds pretty silly, but still it's one of those features you get used to, and when you have to port your CMS to MySQL it's a bugger.

Never the less, Long live PSQL ;)