Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Rob Napier <rob(at)doitonce(dot)net(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Time to start drafting the 8.4 release
Date: 2009-03-31 18:10:13
Message-ID: 20090331181013.GZ23023@alvh.no-ip.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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