[$] "Big data" features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5

PostgreSQL 9.5 Alpha 2 is due to be released on August 6. Not onlydoes the new version support UPSERT, more JSON functionality, and other newfeatures we looked at back in July, it alsohas some major enhancements for "big data" workloads. Among these arefaster sorts, TABLESAMPLE, GROUPING SETS andCUBE, BRIN indexes, and Foreign Data Wrapper improvements. Takentogether, these features strengthen arguments for using PostgreSQL for datawarehouses, and enable users to continue using it with bigger databases.