PostgreSQL 8.4 Released Many of the changes in PostgreSQL 8.4 are new or improved administration and monitoring tools and commands. Each user has their own favorite features which will make day-to-day work with PostgreSQL easier and more productive for them. Among the most popular enhancements are: * Parallel Database Restore, speeding up recovery from backup up to 8 times * Per-Column Permissions, allowing more granular control of sensitive data * Per-database Collation Support, making PostgreSQL more useful in multi-lingual environments * In-place Upgrades through pg_migrator (beta), enabling upgrades from 8.3 to 8.4 without extensive downtime * New Query Monitoring Tools, giving administrators more insight into query activity * Greatly Reduced VACUUM Overhead through the Visibility Map * New Monitoring Tools for current queries, query load and deadlocks Click here for core package of Linux x86-64 postgreSql Download the package then change the permission and run it #chmod +x postgresql-8.4.1-1-linux-x64.bin #./postgresql-8.4.1-1-linux-x64.bin