Josh,
> Yes, but it's one of 50-or-so features which matter to existing
> production Postgres DBAs, and not to people who haven't used it before.
> We want to keep the features oriented towards people who aren't already
> intimate with PostgreSQL; those will read the internal release and the
> release notes.
Mind you, what this *does* point out is that everyone has their favorite
feature which is going to improve their lives ... and it's not
necessarily the headliners.
For example, my favorite feature from 8.2? CSVlog. But I'm not sure we
even put that on the release announcement.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com