Re: Assembling "top features" list for beta announcement

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Assembling "top features" list for beta announcement
Date: 2017-04-08 01:04:47
Message-ID: 47039883-c5e3-ecf3-020e-b42c1e4b9ee7@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/7/17 20:40, Josh Berkus wrote:
> So, lemme update the running list:
>
> Banner Features:
>
> - pglogical
> - new partitioning
> - quorum sync rep
> - parallel index scan, bitmap scan, and merge join
>
> Other Features:
>
> - XMLTABLE query expressions
> - hash indexes in wal
> - PGFDW: push down aggregates
> - SCRAM authentication
>
> ... seems like the "other features" list should be longer.

Some more possibilities:

- better defaults for replication/online backups out of the box
- ICU support
- extended statistics (better performance for certain queries?)
- executor performance improvements

Also note that parallel query is now on by default, whereas it was
disabled by default in 9.6.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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