Hot on the heels of the PostgreSQL 9.1.0 release I am happy to announce that the final version is now packaged for Debian unstable, the current Ubuntu development version “Oneiric”, and also in my Ubuntu backports PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04.

Enjoy trying out all the cool new features like builtin synchronous replication or per-column collation settings for correctly handling international strings, or an even finer-grained access control for large environments. Please see the detailled explanation of the new features.

As already announced a few days ago, 9.0 is gone from Ubuntu 11.10, as it is still only a development version and not an LTS. 9.1 will be the version which the next 12.04 LTS will support, so this slightly reduces the number of major upgrades Ubuntu users will need to do. However, 9.0 will still be available in Debian unstable and backports, and the Ubuntu backports PPA for a couple of months to give DB administrators some time to migrate.