Like every year before, the Postgres team has blessed us with an early christmas present. And like every release post before, I'd like to use this opportunity to say thanks to the team for the awesome job they are doing year after year.

It's not just the database itself (and that's awesome on its own right), but it's also all the peripheral stuff: The documentation is seriously amazing and very complete, the tools that come with the database are really good too (like psql which I still prefer to the various UIs out there).

Code-wise, I would recommend anybody to have a look at their git repo and the way how they write commit-messages: They are a pleasure to read and really explain what's going on. If everybody wrote commit messages like this, we'd be in a much better place what code-archeology is concerned.

Patches from the community are always patiently reviewed and, contrary to many other projects, even new contributors are not really required to have a thick skin nor flame retardant suits. The only thing required is a lot of patience as the level of quality required for a patch to go in is very, very high.

Finally, there's #postgresql on Freenode where core developers spend their time patiently helping people in need of support. Some questions could be solved by spending 30 seconds in the (as I said: excellent) manual and some of them point to really obscure issues, but no matter what time it is: Somebody in #postgresql is there to help you.

I think there's no other free software project out there that just gets everything right: Very friendly community, awesome documentation, awesome tools, and of course and awesome product offering to begin with.

Huge thanks to everybody involved.

Also: Huge YAY for jsonb - I have many, many things in mind I can use that for and I have been looking forward to this for a year now.