Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:10:13PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

Is, "analytics" the latest in the DSS/OLAP/BI series of wacky terms
for, "system need not respond within a second?"

Cheers,
David (having trouble keeping up with this term-of-the-day merry-go-round).
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