Re: DRAFT beta release announcement

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 10:29 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

> In addition to the new replication, a number of new features will allow
> developers and DBAs to broaden their use of PostgreSQL, including:
>
> * Support for 64-bit Windows
> * Redesigned LISTEN/NOTIFY built-in event notifications
> * The DO() statement, allowing users to execute ad-hoc procedural statements
> * Conditional and Column Triggers
> * Numerous PL/Perl improvements
> * Uniqueness constraints for non-scalar data
> * Improved key-value data support

I think the join removal feature is of critical importance, much more so
than many of the above items.

I might describe it like in *one* of these ways

* Automatic join removal to optimise complex SQL generated by OR mapping

* Major new optimizations for complex automatically generated SQL

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