New in Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.2
Good News Postgres Plus Advanced Server Beta Version is now availabale, which has all the new feature of PostgreSQL 9.2, and it also has new features which are specific to Advanced Server. I will cover/explain New features of PostgreSQL 9.2 later as per release Notes. However, the following link covers major features of PostgreSQL 9.2 and can be taken as reference. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.2 In this Blog, I am going to cover only specific features of Advanced Server 9.2 Core. Which are: 1. INSERT APPEN HINT in PPAS 9.2 PPAS 9.2, now supports INSERT append hint. This is a very interesting feature and it is very useful for users who frequently delete records in Bulk and do bulk of INSERTs. This hint can provide some benefits in INSERTs. This hint makes PPAS not use Free Space Map and Append the rows at the end of relation(table). Its usage is given below: INSERT /*+append*/ INTO tab21115 VALUES(1,'abc',sysdate); 2. Procedure Called l...