Fully agreed, a very awesome release and the list of features is in no short supply with this version. Of note: * The improvements to foreign data wrappers t

Fully agreed, a very awesome release and the list of features is in no short supply with this version. Of note: * The improvements to foreign data wrappers to allow them to be writeable along with the Postgres FDW will improve visibility for the functionality * Lateral joins * Materialized views * The checksums for checking against corruption We've elaborated some of our favorites over at Heroku Postgres - https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/9/9/postgres_93_now_available/ https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/9/9/postgres_93_n... along with how you can provision a 9.3 on us to begin using it right away, and then of course you can always see the full whats new on the wiki http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.3 http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.3