Re: 7.4 Press Release - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: 7.4 Press Release
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Msg-id 3F14D8EA.70508@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: 7.4 Press Release  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat wrote:
> uh, a little too technical for this release ;-)

Yeah, I knew that. I just wanted to give you the details so you would
understand what was behind my bullets.

>         - Read only transactions, which bring a greater level of
>           security to web and enterprise applications by protecting data
>           from modification.

Hmmm, somehow I missed this change. How is it used?


>     Other improvements include:
>         - Performance improvements to data warehousing functionality.
Now that I read this again, it isn't clear what "data warehousing"
*functionality* we've added. What are some examples? Perhaps "data
warehousing related performance improvements"?

>     - Enhanced implementation of functional indexes
>     - Addition of polymorphic function arguments and return types
>     - SQL99 complient INFORMATION SCHEMA
This one already has a main paragraph above, so it is redundant here.
Sorry if I missed that the first time.

Joe


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