PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 2 Released

Following last month's PostgreSQL 9.6 Beta 1 release, a second beta is now available for testing.

As outlined already on Phoronix when looking at the PostgreSQL 9.6 features, this update brings parallel query support, synchronous replication now supports multiple standby servers, full-text search for phrases, support for remote joins/sorts/updates, "substantial" performance improvements (especially for many-core servers), no more repetitive scans of old data by auto vacuum, and much more.

Today's beta 2 release updates most contrib extensions for parallel query support, some code changes to improve performance, improvements to regression tests, and a wide variety of other changes.

More details on today's development update can be found via PostgreSQL.org.