Re: 8.2 features status

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.2 features status
Date: 2006-08-04 17:36:34
Message-ID: 20060804173634.GK40481@pervasive.com
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:37:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > To me new things are like PITR, Win32, savepoints, two-phase commit,
> > partitioned tables, tablespaces. These are from 8.0 and 8.1. What is
> > there in 8.2 like that?
>
> [ shrug... ] Five out of your six items have no basis in the SQL spec.
> So it's not clear to me what your definition of "major feature" is,

Stuff that's "sexy". Like 2PC, partitioning, etc.

And to add to David Fetter's list without another post...

* Better interface to partitioning

* Stored procedures (ie: BEGIN; COMMIT;)
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