Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 7.1

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Tim Uckun wrote:

> At 11:04 PM 10/11/2000 -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Asidha Luhwidyanto wrote:
> > > What;s the new in Postgresql 7.1 ?
> >
> >TOAST and WAL!!!!
> >
> >I think these are big changes that will make me think about postgresql as a
> >big time competitor against the big commercial database engines.
> >
> >WAL is a backup system.
> >TOAST is a system for working with rows that have to use more then the 8K
> >limitation.
> >AFAIK!
> 
> What happened to outer joins? Don't you need outer joins to compete with 
> the big boys?

tom lane has been working aggressively on that :)