State of the Elephant
summary
Postgres reports roughly 8–9 million annual downloads with community builds accounting for about 3–4 million, EnterpriseDB serving ~900 customers, and broad global adoption across governments and enterprises. Core features now include streaming replication with read‑only standbys, in‑place major‑version upgrades, strong SQL standards compliance, PostGIS geospatial support and a 64‑bit Windows port. Upcoming 9.1 adds unlogged tables, SQL/MED foreign data access, synchronous replication and SELinux integration.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Postgres
- 2:54License
- 5:48PostgreSQL
- 15:34Postgres 91
- 16:34Inplace Upgrades
- 20:11Final Features
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