[$] PostgreSQL 9.6 improves synchronous replication and more

The PostgreSQL project released version 9.6 onSeptember 29th. This new major release has an assortment of new goodiesfor PostgreSQL fans, including parallel query andphrase search, new options for synchronous replication, remote queryexecution using foreign data wrappers, "crosstab" data transformations inpsql, and more. Together with version 9.6, the community released a completely rewrittenversion of the pgAdmin database graphical interface.We'll explore multiple synchronous replicas, foreign datawrapper changes, crosstabs and the new pgAdmin here.