Re: Theme of this release: Performance?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> On Friday 24 August 2007 09:59, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Bruce,
> > >
> > > > 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."
> > >
> > > Can you link the actual features to those themes?  I'm not seeing some of
> > > them ...
> >
> > "link"?  I am thinking HOT and concurrent sequential scans and async
> > commit.  These were things I didn't think we would get so soon.
>
> What I mean is:
>
> flexibility == feature?
> adaptability == feature?
> autotuning == feature?
> new capabilities == XML, scaling, checkpoint, etc.

Ah, OK.

autotuning:  HOT (handles update cleanup automatically), concurrent seqscans
flexibility: async commit
adaptability: checkpoint smoothing

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