On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:05 , Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Folks:
>
> While it's somewhat indefinite when we will get a beta, I'd like to be
> prepared by having target messaging on what's cool in 9.5. Here's
> what
> I see:
>
> Big Data
> --------
>
> This release contains some major "big data" features.
>
> * BRIN indexes: skiplist indexes for multi-GB tables.
> * Grouping Sets and CUBE: OLAP for PostgreSQL.
> * Faster sorts: sorts on large amounts of text data are up to 5X
> faster.
Don't know about hotness in the eyes of the users but some numeric
aggregates got about twice as fast and we also have sampling.
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