08/21/2005PostgreSQL 8.1 is going beta!
PostgreSQL 8.1 is going beta soon.
New features include:
- Autovacuum moved from contrib/ to the main server
- Improved SMP performance from removing global shared buffer lock.
- Bitmap indexing
- 2-phase commit
- OUT and INOUT parameters for functions
- Improved PL/Perl
- Shared row locks
Source: www.postgresql.org.
