Re: 9.3 Beta1 status report

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 05:29:51PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> So here's my draft list of "Major Enhancements" for the relase notes:
>
> * Writeable Foreign Tables
> * pgsql_fdw driver for federation of PostgreSQL databases
> * Automatically updatable VIEWs
> * MATERIALIZED VIEW declaration
> * LATERAL JOINs
> * Additional JSON constructor and extractor functions
> * Indexed regular expression search
> * Disk page checksums to detect filesystem failures
> * Streaming-only remastering of replicas
> * Performance and locking improvements for Foreign Key locks
> * Parallel pg_dump for faster backups
> * Directories for configuration files
> * pg_isready database connection checker
> * COPY FREEZE for reduced IO bulk loading
> * User-defined background workers for automating database tasks
> * Recursive view declaration
>
> I note that the first one I'm leading off with actually isn't included
> in your release notes. So please add it:
>
> Allow foreign data wrappers to accept writes
> Foreign data sources can now be written to,
> as well as read, provided that the FDW driver
> supports it.

Well, this is the text I have now, which was suggested to me:

<listitem>
<para>
Add a Postgres foreign data wrapper contrib module (Shigeru
Hanada, KaiGai Kohei)
</para>

<para>
This foreign data wrapper allows writes; potentially other
foreign data wrappers can now support writes.
</para>
</listitem>

Are you saying split up this into two items?

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