PostgreSQL 8.2 hits beta

PostgreSQL 8.2 hit beta other day.
Just installed it in a Solaris zone on my laptop (you need a fairly recent Solaris Express release to use the a dtrace [pdf] functionallity).
A few new cool features.

• dtrace support in Solaris
  
• Warm standby server support
  
• CREATE INDEX without locking the table
  
• Improved syntax of the config file, support for SI units (kilobyte, megabyte, hour etc)
  
• Basic support for SQL 2003 analytical functions (I couldn't find any docs about this).
  
• Faster vacuuming
  
• Improved WAL and log management
  

Quite a lot of exciting stuff. Analytics could be fun and the speedups in WAL and logging could make a improvement for write intense operations, an area where postgres have been quite slowish in the past.

Full list and downloads here. Cool.