Fujitsu boost for PostgreSQL
Aha, so a Fujitsu sponsorship has helped the PostgreSQL development team come out with such an outstanding list of improvements for the next release! I read Robert Treat's PostgreSQL Weekly News which includes a summary of each week's development progress as seen on the development mailing list and I have been quite amazed at how quickly development of major features was progressing.
Thanks to Jeremy's linkblog for this tip. I imagine that the sponsorship was probably mentioned sometime in the Weekly News but I didn't remember it because I didn't realize how significant it would be.