Re: [Postgres-xc-announce] Postgres-XC 1.1 is out

[Koichi S. <koi...@gm...>]

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Thank you;
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Koichi Suzuki

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Koichi Suzuki


2013/8/22 Koichi Suzuki <koi...@gm...>

> Postgres-XC development group is proud to announce the release of
> Postgres-XC version 1.1.   This is the second major release and comes with
> many useful features.
>
> Source tarball will be available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/files/Version_1.1/pgxc-v1.1.tar.gz/downloadwhich comes with HTML documentation and man pages.
>
>
> Please visit the project page http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net and
> development page https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/ for more
> materials.
>
> New features of Postgres-XC 1.1 include:
>
> * Node addition and removal while Postgres-XC cluster is in operation.
> * Added --restoremode option to pg_ctl to import catalog information from
> other coordinator/datanode, used when adding new node.
> * Added --include-nodes option to pg_dump and pg_dumpall to export node
> information as well. Mainly for node addition.
> * pgxc_lock_for_backup() function to disable DDLs while new node is going
> to be added and catalog is exported to the new node.
> * Row TRIGGER support.
> * RETURNING support.
> * pgxc_ctl tool for Postgres-XC cluster configuration and operation
> (contrib module).
> * Backup GTM restart point with CREATE BARRIER statement.
> * Merged with PostgreSQL 9.2.4.
> * ALTER TABLE statement to redistribute tables
>
> Also we have number of improvements in the planner for better performance
> as:
>
> * Push down sorting operation to the datanodes by using ORDER BY clause in
> queries to sent to the datanodes.
> * Push down LIMIT clause to datanodes.
> * Pushdown outer joins to datanodes.
> * Improve fast query shipping to ship queries containing subqueries.
> * Push GROUP BY clause to the datanodes when there is ORDER BY, LIMIT and
> other clauses in the query.
>
> It also comes with number of another improvements and fixes.
>
>
> The group appreciate all the members who provided valuable codes and
> fruitful discussions.
>
> Best Regards;
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> Koichi Suzuki
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