[Catalyst] PostgreSQL 8.4 released

[Darren Duncan]

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Thought I would let you know this little wonderful tidbit for the day.
> PostgreSQL 8.4 has been released. You can check out the release here:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1108

That's great news.  Postgres 8.4 introduces some features that I consider very 
valuable to have, and that makes possible some work that would otherwise be 
quite difficult.  For examples, common table expressions or named subqueries 
("WITH"), with recursion.  This lets you apply to non-trivial database queries 
what are good practices in programming in general, such as factoring out 
repeated portions of a query into named subqueries so you only have to write 
that part once.  And the recursion which basically is predicated in the prior 
ability.  That's one of the things I appreciate the most. -- Darren Duncan