Re: Beta1 announcement: alpha1 draft

* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > * Enable pg_dump ACL support
>
> I'm not entirely sure anyone will know what this is or why they should
> care.  It might be worth mentioning if we can clarify that.

Err, worse, that particular comment is just wrong- pg_dump has supported
dumping ACLs for a very long time, we're just now supporting dumping
ACLs for objects in pg_catalog (and objects which are members of
extensions) which are changed from their default.

> Also note we now have:

Note sure why it isn't working at the moment (at least for me), but when
it does, you could also check out:

http://www.hagander.net/talks/

And look at Magnus' "A Look Inside the Elephant's Trunk - 9.6" talk.

> I think there are a decent number of people for whom the frozen page
> data in the visibility map will be a really big deal, even bigger than
> parallel query.

Agreed, for certain users, that's huge.

> And I think the combination of
> synchronous_commit=remote_apply and multiple synchronous standbys is
> also going to be really, really useful for anyone who wants to build a
> robust read-scaling cluster around PostgreSQL.

Agreed.

Thanks!

Stephen