Thread: Update needed for what's new? page

Hi,

We need to update http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew today, before
8.2 will be officially released.

Is there someone on this list who can quickly prepare a text for this?
You can use
http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/233/release82.zip

for this.

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Here is something as a start point:

 PostgreSQL 8.2 contains more than 180 new features and enhancements
contributed by almost 70 developers.
This release adds significant functionality and performance improvements
that were requested by users, including:

    *  Query language enhancements including INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
RETURNING, multirow VALUES lists, and optional target-table alias in
UPDATE/DELETE
    *  Index creation without blocking concurrent INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
operations
    *  Many query optimization improvements, including support for
reordering outer joins
    *  Improved sorting performance with lower memory usage
    *  More efficient locking with better concurrency
    *  More efficient vacuuming
    *  Easier administration of warm standby servers
    *  New FILLFACTOR support for tables and indexes
    *  Monitoring, logging, and performance tuning additions
    *  More control over creating and dropping objects
    *  Table inheritance relationships can be defined for and removed
from pre-existing tables
    *  COPY TO can copy the output of an arbitrary SELECT statement
    *  Array improvements, including nulls in arrays
    *  Aggregate-function improvements, including multiple-input
aggregates and SQL:2003 statistical functions
    *  Many contrib/ improvements
















----- Original Message -----
From: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@CommandPrompt.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 10:53 am
Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] Update needed for what's new? page
To: "pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org" <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>

> Hi,
>
> We need to update http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew today,
> before8.2 will be officially released.
>
> Is there someone on this list who can quickly prepare a text for this?
> You can use
> http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/233/release82.zip
>
> for this.
>
> Regards,
> --
> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.503.667.4564
> PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
> Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting
> Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/
>
>
>
>
>

> Here is something as a start point:
>
>  PostgreSQL 8.2 contains more than 180 new features and
> enhancements contributed by almost 70 developers.

Actually, our FAQ says 200 developers, so let's not put out two
different numbers.

Apart from that, just be sure to double-check that the FAQ and the
presskit don't say different things about the features, please ;-)

//Magnus

----- Original Message -----
From: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Update needed for what's new? page
To: nhrcommu@rochester.rr.com, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@CommandPrompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org

> > Here is something as a start point:
> >
> >  PostgreSQL 8.2 contains more than 180 new features and
> > enhancements contributed by almost 70 developers.
>
> Actually, our FAQ says 200 developers, so let's not put out two
> different numbers.
>
> Apart from that, just be sure to double-check that the FAQ and the
> presskit don't say different things about the features, please ;-)
>
> //Magnus
>
Devrim,
I will assume that the above "to-do" has been assigned to you, as I am
exiting this thread.  Good luck.

Thanks,
Mike Ellsworth