Re: Draft of Alpha release announcement - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Draft of Alpha release announcement
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Msg-id 20150701113904.GB6036@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Draft of Alpha release announcement  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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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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