Postgres 9.5 is a great release. Upsert is, obviously, a very welcome addition.
But I am more interested in row level security policies and its impact on evolution of technologies like Postgrest. It may even spawn a new generation of backend architectures that don't really need app servers to power SPAs and mobile apps. A possible exciting new niche for Postgres.
What is not great about Postgres ecosystem is that megacorps who benefit the most from selling hosted Postgres instances ( AWS/Amazon and Compose.io/IBM ) are not present in the list of significant sponsors of PostgreSQL foundation! Heroku/Salesforce is only on the Silver sponsorship level.
I'm really glad to know that this release is coming out in the next few days. I'm going to start building a new multitenant application soon and I'd love to be able to try row-level security.
It seems that the sponsorship levels are determined by years of sponsorship [1]. Not really defending these specific companies as they have been profiting from PostgreSQL for a lot longer than one year. However, they could be on track to become Platinum sponsors and we wouldn't know.
But I am more interested in row level security policies and its impact on evolution of technologies like Postgrest. It may even spawn a new generation of backend architectures that don't really need app servers to power SPAs and mobile apps. A possible exciting new niche for Postgres.
What is not great about Postgres ecosystem is that megacorps who benefit the most from selling hosted Postgres instances ( AWS/Amazon and Compose.io/IBM ) are not present in the list of significant sponsors of PostgreSQL foundation! Heroku/Salesforce is only on the Silver sponsorship level.
That's really bad.
http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors/