Re: Release 8.2.0 done, 8.3 development starts

Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>

From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-12-20T18:38:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
kaare@jasonic.dk (Kaare Rasmussen) writes:

> I'm not sure, but as far as I remember, it will be a short release cycle for 
> 8.3 in order to finish some big items that couldn't be ready in time for 8.2. 
>
> But which items are more or less expected for 8.3? I recall
> - Hierarchical Queries
> - On disk bitmap index
> - Clustered/replication solutions
>
> being discussed. What are on people's minds?

- WITH (recursive) queries
- Better handling of partitioning
- SQL:2003 windowing queries
- Discussion is under way on improvements to autovac
- Simon Riggs has "reuse of index tuples" under way
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