PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta 1 is amazing

Just look at new features:

  • Greatly improved performance consistency, through HOT, Load Distributed Checkpoint, JIT bgwriter, Asynchronous Commit, and other features.
  • TSearch2 full text search integrated into the core code with improved syntax and ease of adding custom dictionaries.
  • SQL:XML syntax.
  • Logging to database-loadable CSV files.
  • Automated rebuilding of cached plans.
  • ENUMs, UUIDs and arrays of complex types.
  • GSSAPI and SSPI authentication support.
  • … and many others