Intro to 8.4 Slides Now Available

Friday, April 3. 2009

Intro to 8.4 Slides Now Available

Today I gave my Intro to 8.4 talk for PostgreSQL East 2009. The slides covers a number of new features in PostgreSQL 8.4, using the Pagila sample database. The talk include quite a bit of back and forth discussion with attendees which was nice, but you should still be able to get something from the slides themselves. If you'd like to take a gander, slides are now available via Slideshare.

Intro to Postgres 8.4 Tutorial

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What is new in PostgreSQL 8.4
PostgresQL 8.4 beta will be out any day and 8.4 official release will hopefully not be too far behind. As we wait patiently for the official release, Robert Treat has summarized nicely all the new features you can expect in 8.4. PostgreSQL 8.4 is what

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Hello

nice a presentation. I fund there small bug - variadic function are available for all languages. You can find samples for sql language. It's interesting, so complete implementation of variadic is only in PostgreSQL's parser

#1 Pavel Stehule on 2009-04-04 14:54 (Reply)

So much to learn about 8.4... thanks for the correction!

#1.1 Robert Treat (Homepage) on 2009-04-04 22:34 (Reply)

Since I don't have flash, I'd really apreciate if you made your presentation downloadable. Thanks, Mathias

#2 Mathias Picker on 2009-04-06 10:05 (Reply)

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