Re: News coverage for 9.2 release

On 9/11/12, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
> On 11/09/12 12:38, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 9/10/12 5:33 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 07:40 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> Links, post 'em here:
>>> (EDB sponsored, it seems)
>>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/262107/postgres_92_invites_largescale_enterprise_deployment.html
>> Yeah, that one came in through EDB's PR agency.  It's good coverage,
>> regardless.
>>
> Slashdot:
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/09/10/2220202/postgresql-92-out-with-greatly-improved-scalability
> [...]
> The PostgreSQL project announced the release of
> PostgreSQL 9.2 today. The headliner:
>
>  > "With the addition of linear scalability to 64 cores,
>  >index-only scans and reductions in CPU power
>  >consumption, PostgreSQL 9.2 has significantly
>  >improved scalability and developer flexibility
>  >for the most demanding workloads. ... Up to
>  >350,000 read queries per second (more than
>  >4X faster) ... Index-only scans for data
>  >warehousing queries (2–20X faster) ... Up
>  >to 14,000 data writes per second (5X faster)"
>
> Additionally, there's now a JSON type (including the
> ability to retrieve row results in JSON directly
> from the database) ala the XML type (although
> lacking a broad set of utility functions). Minor,
> but probably a welcome relief to those who need
> them, 9.1 adds range restricted types. For the gory
> details, see the what's new page, or the full
> release notes.
> [...]
>
>


Yeah.

Many web developers here in India are using PostgreSQL now.Especially
after web developers discovered that Django is using PostgreSQL,they
have been really wanting to try it.

Atri
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Regards,

Atri
*l'apprenant*