PostgreSQL is an open source and powerful object-relational database system.
With 15 years of strong history behind, PostgreSQL runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (BSD, HP-UX, Solaris, SGI IRIX, AIX, Mac OS X, Tru64), and Windows.
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· Writeable Foreign Tables, enabling pushing data to other databases
· pgsql_fdw driver for federation of PostgreSQL databases
· Automatically updatable VIEWs
· MATERIALIZED VIEW declaration
· LATERAL JOINs
· Additional JSON constructor and extractor functions
· Indexed regular expression search
· Disk page checksums to detect filesystem failures
· Fast failover to replicas for high availability
· Streaming-only remastering of replicas
· Performance and locking improvements for Foreign Key locks
· Parallel pg_dump for faster backups
· Directories for configuration files
· pg_isready database connection checker
· COPY FREEZE for reduced IO bulk loading
· User-defined background workers for automating database tasks
· Recursive view declaration
· lock_timeout directive