Re: 9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon!

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon!
Date: 2013-04-15 23:05:44
Message-ID: 20130416.080544.63167700196266195.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> Folks,
>
> PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 is coming soon. As always, I could use your help
> in coming up with some promotional text for the features it contains.
> Here's the features I know of:
>
> * declarative matviews
> * better FK locks
> * recursive views
> * event triggers
> * writeable foreign tables
> * more JSON functions
> * data checksums
> * parallel pg_dump & dump directory format
> * automatically updatable views
> * streaming-only cascading replication failover
> * configuration directory
> * pg_isready (ping postgres)
> * postgres_fdw
>
> Others I missed?

64-bit large object API.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

> We should pick 3-4 features which are worth talking about and promoting.
> My thinking is:
>
> * declarative matviews ("Materialized View Support")
> * postgres_fdw / writeable foreign tables ("Federated Databases")
> * event triggers
> * JSON API and functions ("More JSON goodness")
>
> However, I'm not quite sure how to explain Event Triggers to the general
> public.
>
> Also, while the JSON stuff is a minor feature compared to some of the
> others (such as checksums), anything JSON gives us a lot of positive
> press among web developers, hence why I'm thinking of including it.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
> http://pgexperts.com
>
>
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