Re: Draft of Alpha release announcement

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Draft of Alpha release announcement
Date: 2015-07-01 11:39:04
Message-ID: 20150701113904.GB6036@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-06-30 15:35:02 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Among new major features available for testing in this alpha are:
>
> * Block-Range Indexes (BRIN) which enable compact indexing of very large tables
> * Large speed improvements in in-memory sorting and hashing
> * Automated management of transaction log size
> * INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE, otherwise known as "UPSERT"
> * Grouping Sets, CUBE and ROLLUP analytic operations
> * Row-Level Security (RLS) support
> * More JSONB data manipulation functions and operators
> * Added the pg_rewind tool and other high availability improvements to replication
> * Multiple enhancements to Foreign Data Wrappers, including IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA

Maybe add scalability improvements (~three different features)? The
contention around spinlocks has hit a lot of people over the last few
years.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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