Re: Draft of 9.2 beta announcement, please revise/improve

On 6 May 2012 21:19, Joshua Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Major performance and scalability advances ready to be tested in this version include:

Sounds good, thanks for taking the time to write that.

> * Index-only scans, allowing users to avoid expensive scans of slow-changing base tables

slow changing, yes, but also insert mostly tables is a very important case

> * Dramatially improved read-only workload scaling to 64 cores and over 300,000 queries per second

the write rate changes are very important also, need to mention those

> * Cascading replication, supporting rapid failover and geographically distributed standby databases

"rapid failover" code was not committed

there's no mention of
* Group Commit improvements
* Power reduction improvements - greatly reduced cost and reduced
environmental impact of running Postgres in virtual and cloud
environments

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