Re: 8.2 Release: need help digesting the release notes

josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus) writes:

> Folks,
>
> OK, there's been a *lot* of changes on what's in and what's out for the
> PostgreSQL release since my first draft. Can I have some help with this?
>
> We're looking for things actually in 8.2, according to Bruce's release notes,
> which will make sense to the press and moderately technical non-DBA readers.
>
> http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgrelease
>
> We'll want to pick out 3-5 things for the main release, and another 3-5 things
> for the extended release. The extended release items can be things which
> matter only to existing users (like pg_dump improvements) but the main
> release items need to be things which are "buzzword compliant" or otherwise
> newsworthy.

On the "main release" side, it's a pretty tough call. Here are things
maybe worth mentioning.

- PITR functionality has been improved, allowing more precise control
over WAL file generation, thereby giving better control over standby
servers.

- Support multi-row VALUES clauses

- It seems to me that the combination of the various object
manipulation changes could be collected together as being similar.

e.g. - DROP x IF EXISTS, DROP OWNED, REASSIGN OWNED, sequence usage
changes

Extended release:

- Allow units to be specified in configuration settings (Peter)

You can now set shared_buffers to "32000kB", for example.

- pg_dump can select objects via regexp

- COPY can dump based on a SELECT
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