<p>
PostgreSQL comes with <a href="/about/featurematrix/">many features</a> aimed to help developers build applications, administrators to protect data integrity and build fault-tolerant environments, and help you manage your data no matter how big or small the dataset. In addition to being <a href="/about/license/">free and open source</a>, PostgreSQL is highly extensible. For example, you can define your own data types, build out custom functions, even write code from <a href="/docs/current/static/xplang.html">different programming languages</a> without recompiling your database!
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-<p>PostgreSQL tries to conform with the <a href="/docs/current/static/features.html">SQL standard</a> where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or could lead to poor architectural decisions. Many of the features required by the SQL standard are supported, though sometimes with slightly differing syntax or function. Further moves towards conformance can be expected over time. As of the version 10 release in October 2017, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 160 of the 179 mandatory features for SQL:2011 Core conformance, where as of this writing, no relational database meets full conformance with this standard.
+<p>PostgreSQL tries to conform with the <a href="/docs/current/static/features.html">SQL standard</a> where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or could lead to poor architectural decisions. Many of the features required by the SQL standard are supported, though sometimes with slightly differing syntax or function. Further moves towards conformance can be expected over time. As of the version 11 release in October 2018, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 160 of the 179 mandatory features for SQL:2011 Core conformance, where as of this writing, no relational database meets full conformance with this standard.
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<p>Below is an inexhaustive of various features found in PostgreSQL, with more being added in every <a href="/developer/roadmap/">major release</a>:
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<strong>Concurrency, Performance</strong>
<ul>
<li>Indexing: B-tree, Multicolumn, Expressions, Partial</li>
- <li>Advanced Indexing: GiST, SP-Gist, KNN Gist, GIN, BRIN, Bloom filters</li>
+ <li>Advanced Indexing: GiST, SP-Gist, KNN Gist, GIN, BRIN, Covering indexes, Bloom filters</li>
<li>Sophisticated query planner / optimizer, index-only scans, multicolumn statistics</li>
<li>Transactions, Nested Transactions (via savepoints)</li>
<li>Multi-Version concurrency Control (MVCC)</li>
- <li>Parallelization of read queries</li>
+ <li>Parallelization of read queries and building B-tree indexes</li>
<li>Table partitioning</li>
<li>All transaction isolation levels defined in the SQL standard, including Serializable</li>
+ <li>Just-in-time (JIT) compilation of expressions</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<li>
<strong>Extensibility</strong>
<ul>
- <li>Stored procedures</li>
+ <li>Stored functions and procedures</li>
<li>Procedural Languages: PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python (and many more)</li>
<li>Foreign data wrappers: connect to other databases or streams with a standard SQL interface</li>
<li>Many extensions that provide additional functionality, including PostGIS</li>
are subject to changes that are backwards incompatible at any time during
the development of the betas, and could possibly be removed altogether.</p>
-<!-- <p>PostgreSQL 10 has been released. The first beta of version 11 is not yet available for testing. Beta testing of
- version 11 is likely to begin in mid 2018.</p> -->
+<p>
+ <strong>PostgreSQL 11 has been released</strong>. The first beta of version 12 is not yet available for testing. Beta testing of
+ version 12 is likely to begin around June 2019.
+</p>
-<p>The current release candidate is <strong>PostgreSQL 11 RC 1</strong>. For more information on the current release candidate and how
- to test, please view the links below.</p>
+<!-- <p>The current beta release is <strong>PostgreSQL 11 Beta 4</strong>. For more information on the current beta release and how
+ to test, please view the links below.</p> -->
<ul>
- <li>
+ <!-- <li>
<a href="/about/news/1893/">PostgreSQL 11 RC 1 Release Announcement</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/ftp/source/v11rc1/">Download 11 RC 1 source code</a>
- </li>
+ </li> -->
<li>
<a href="/docs/devel/static/index.html">Development Version of the Docs</a>
</li>
<h2>Next major release</h2>
-<p>The next major release of PostgreSQL is planned to be the 11 release. A
+<p>The next major release of PostgreSQL is planned to be the 12 release. A
tentative schedule for this version has a release in the
-third quarter of 2018.</p>
+third quarter of 2019.</p>
<p>While there are no formal requirements for each PostgreSQL release, there
are several places you can look to find out more information on upcoming