Re: Theme of this release: Performance?

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Le Thursday 23 August 2007 21:54:30 Alvaro Herrera, vous avez ?crit?:
> > So performance has always been part of the theme.  The question is _what
> > else_ will be theme this release ...
>
> Some of the (main) patches included, from the dedicated wiki page[1], are:
>   Tsearch2, big feature
>   HOT, performances & scalability
>   Async Commit, performance & scalability
>   Sync Scan, performance & scalability
>   Load distributed checkpoint, perfs & scalability
>   Updatable Cursors, feature
>   Circular buffer in tuplestore, perfs?
>   scan resistant buffer cache, perfs & scalability
>   varlena length, perfs & scalability
>   Index Advisor, scalability
>
> Sorry if some items are badly categorized, feel free to correct if it proves
> useful for the topic. Same with missing important patches...
>
> What I'd propose as the main theme is scalability and ongoing features
> completion. PostgreSQL has less and less missing from the other big
> commercial ones, and is more and more capable of serving big databases in
> demanding environments. More capable than competition? certainly, try out by
> yourself...

I would say users are getting PostgreSQL features expected in 2010
today.  As for terms: flexibility, adapability, autotuning, new
capabilities for new workloads.  "PostgreSQL just got smarter."

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