9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon!

Folks,

PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 is coming soon.  As always, I could use your help
in coming up with some promotional text for the features it contains.
Here's the features I know of:

* declarative matviews
* better FK locks
* recursive views
* event triggers
* writeable foreign tables
* more JSON functions
* data checksums
* parallel pg_dump & dump directory format
* automatically updatable views
* streaming-only cascading replication failover
* configuration directory
* pg_isready (ping postgres)
* postgres_fdw

Others I missed?

We should pick 3-4 features which are worth talking about and promoting.
  My thinking is:

* declarative matviews ("Materialized View Support")
* postgres_fdw / writeable foreign tables ("Federated Databases")
* event triggers
* JSON API and functions ("More JSON goodness")

However, I'm not quite sure how to explain Event Triggers to the general
public.

Also, while the JSON stuff is a minor feature compared to some of the
others (such as checksums), anything JSON gives us a lot of positive
press among web developers, hence why I'm thinking of including it.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com