On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:03:06 -0600 Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Josh Trutwin > <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been asked to put together a list of reasons to upgrade a db > > from 8.1 to 8.3 and I've looked over the changelog, but they > > want a bullet list of 4-5 top things. I'm curious what others > > would say the most 5 important updates from 8.1 to 8.3 are. > > There were a lot of improvements from 8.1 to 8.3. For the system > at work, the compelling ones were: > HOT updates. > General improvements in the query planner. This has been true for > nearly every new major release. > Improved vacuuming, including multi-threaded vacuum capability. > Concurrent index creation. > Improved handling of joins > Fillfactor setting > Much improved checkpointing > Changes to the buffering methods so large seq scans don't evict > more popular data from the buffers. This is much more important > than it sounds. For me the reason to switch was the inclusion of the great work by Oleg and Teodor: Full-text search into core. It looks like 8.4 is going to be a great release too and I think it will be an enough cool reason to switch not only DB release but OS release as soon as 8.4 end up in the backport of Lenny. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
