Newly available is the first beta release of PostgreSQL 9.0. With over 200 changes made, DBAs will be able to broaden their use of PostgreSQL with new features such as:
- Built-in real-time binary database replication with query scale-out
- 64-bit support on Windows
- Improved LISTEN/NOTIFY allows fast internal database event messaging
- Anonymous procedure blocks with the DO statement
- Conditional and per-column triggers
- Support for Python 3 in PL/Python and numerous PL/Perl improvements
- Uniqueness constraints for non-scalar data
- And automatic join removal
Interested PostgreSQL users are invited to download and test PostgreSQL 9.0 beta with their applications, and help find the issues with it so that a timely and unproblematic release may be made.
