PostgreSQL 9.3 BETA 2 out with power packed features

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
PostgreSQL 9.3 BETA 2 out with power packed features


Hello all it’s the annual release time for PostgreSQL Database community.
From the last few years, I have been following PostgreSQL community and they never disappoint me. And here they are with the promising power packed features embedded into the popular Open Source Database in the World. Yes, Its about the PostgreSQL and surely these features make it the MOST ADVANCED OPEN SOURCE DATABASE in the world.
I have become a big FAN of this Database, Firstly because its Open Source, Secondly because it  never falls behind the Commercial database in terms of features and also many few know this, Today’s Most advanced commercial database( Greenplum, Vertica ,…) come from the PostgreSQL database as the base.

So now moving to Latest Release of PostgreSQL
The latest release in still in the Beta phase and the beta phase has been launched on June 27th .
This is PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 2 version and can be downloaded from http://www.postgresql.org/
This time around we can see feature in all aspects of PostgreSQL database

       New Features
  1.  Configuration directive 'include_dir'
  2. COPY FREEZE for more efficient bulk loading
  3. Custom Background Workers
  4.  JSON: Additional functionality
  5. LATERAL JOIN
  6.  Parallel pg_dump for faster backups
  7. 'pg_isready' server monitoring tool
  8.  Switch to Posix shared memory and mmap()
  9.  
  1.  Event Triggers
  1. Materialized Views
  2. Recursive View Syntax
  3. Updatable Views

  1. postgres_fdw
  1.  Streaming-Only Remastering
  2.  Fast Failover
  3. Architecture-Independent Streaming
  4. pg_basebackup conf setup
  1. CREATE TABLE output
  2. Server settings
  3.  WAL filenames may end in FF
With all these changes surely PostgreSQL is eyeing a good place in Database and Datawarehouse Industry. I will go through many of these in my upcoming blogs…. So stay tuned for interesting blogs ahead



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