Re: 9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon!

Le 16/04/2013 00:23, Josh Berkus a écrit :
> 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?
>

Custom background worker processes ?

Definitively not a top 3 feature but it's promising and it could be
interesting to attract some developer attention on this feature...

> 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")
>

My personal "pure-PR" top :

* Material Views
* JSON parser and more
* postgres_fdw + writeable foreign tables