Re: Theme of this release: Performance?

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Josh Berkus escribió:
>> Josh,
>>
>>> Wasn't Performance the theme of the last release?
>> No, it was "maturity".
>
> 8.1 has
>     The new release includes performance improvements and advanced SQL
>     features which will support bigger data warehouses, higher-volume
>     transaction processing, and more complex distributed enterprise
>     software.
>
> 8.2 has
>     This 14th public release adds features, maturity, and performance
>     requested by business users, delivering manageability comparable to
>     leading enterprise database systems.
>
>
> So performance has always been part of the theme.  The question is _what else_
> will be theme this release ...

Well we have XML and TSearch2 as a new functional features.
We have HOT and plan invalidation as a new features for better 24/7
support (aside from performance).

Looking at [1] some of the items are too short and unknown for me to
make sense of what they imply. But so far I would say the postgresql
developers have improved the handling of (structured) clobs as well as
made postgresql more able to run 24/7 operations.

regards,
Lukas

[1] http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/8.3release