Episode 127 - PostgreSQL 12 has some interesting new features, Is it worth the upgrade?
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser - A podcast by Hussein Nasser
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PostgresSQL version 12 has been released, let's go through the features that I think are most interesting and cool. #softwarenews Feature Matrix https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/ - Allow adding columns to Index (GIST) https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/detail/314/ - COPY FROM WHERE COPY FROM ... WHERE - More native support of JSON objects https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-json.html#FUNCTIONS-SQLJSON-PATH - Reindex concurrently (slow but allows writes) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-reindex.html#SQL-REINDEX-CONCURRENTLY - Performance on large partitioned tables - Stored Generated Columns