Re: Draft of Alpha release announcement

On 07/01/2015 04:50 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-06-30 15:35:02 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Major Features
>> --------------
>>
>> Among new major features available for testing in this alpha are:
>>
>> * Block-Range Indexes (BRIN) which enable compact indexing of very large tables
>> * Large speed improvements in in-memory sorting and hashing
>> * Automated management of transaction log size
>> * INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE, otherwise known as "UPSERT"
>> * Grouping Sets, CUBE and ROLLUP analytic operations
>> * Row-Level Security (RLS) support
>> * More JSONB data manipulation functions and operators
>> * Added the pg_rewind tool and other high availability improvements to replication
>> * Multiple enhancements to Foreign Data Wrappers, including IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA
>
>> * [9.5 Alpha Release Notes](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-5.html)
>
> I think it'd be good to integrate the major items list into the release
> notes in time for the website to update... If necessary, can you ping me
> in time to update the sgml?

That's up to Bruce.  I'm happy to write those up in Release Note format,
but I was planning to wait until the Beta in case one or more features
gets the axe before then.


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