Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release
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Msg-id 20090331181013.GZ23023@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
Responses Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Jeff Davis wrote:

> WITH RECURSIVE and window functions could both fall into an "analytics"
> theme of some kind. That doesn't tell the whole story, though.
>
> Some of the other major features, like the Visibility Map, are very
> important, but I can't think of any way to make them sound exciting
> (other than a "performance" theme, which is not exciting without
> numbers).

VM can also be categorized as "analytics", because it makes vacuuming
huge tables so much convenient.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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