E.8. Postgres Pro Standard 14.11.1
Release Date: 2024-02-15
E.8.1. Overview
This release is based onPostgreSQL 14.11 andPostgres Pro Standard 14.10.1. All improvements inherited fromPostgreSQL 14.11 are listed inPostgreSQL 14.11 Release Notes. Other major changes and enhancements are as follows:
Updated the default values ofdefault_toast_compression andwal_compression to
lz4. It speeds up WAL and TOAST processing and reduces disk space utilization.Added configuration parameters to enable getting information on crashes of a backend. Thecrash_info parameter turns on this functionality, whilecrash_info_dump andcrash_info_location specify the contents and location of crash information files, respectively.
Added
-m,-o, and-xoptions toinitdb for testing database upgrades with custom initial xid, multixid and multixid offset values. These options were previously available only inPostgres Pro Enterprise.Optimized memory consumption during selectivity estimation for each array element as compared to vanillaPostgreSQL.
Fixed segmentation fault that could occur when executing queries or using the planner withpg_pathman running.pg_pathman did not pay attention to new fields in the
RangeTblEntry(RTE) structure, which were not correctly initialized. By making a regular copy of a parent RTE,pg_pathman also copied pointers to parent equivalence classes or their members. This inconsistency affected query planning and caused the error.Fixed the race condition between the autovacuum worker and backend processes when clearing orphaned tables, which could manifest itself in“cache lookup failed for relation” errors. Now autovacuum locks the namespaces when clearing orphaned tables.
Fixed an issue that could occur during installation of aPostgres Pro server on Debian-based systems included in a domain with the
postgresuser.Fixed the output ofpg-setup, which erroneously displayed the locale from the
LANGenvironment variable at cluster initialization. Now the message about locale is not displayed at this stage.Ended support for Rosa Enterprise Linux Server 7.
Ended support for ROSA COBALT (server edition) based on Rosa platform 7.
Upgradedorafce to version 4.9.1.
Upgraded the PLV8 extension to version 3.2.2.
Upgradedpg_filedump to version 16.1.
Upgradedpg_proaudit to version 2.0, which provides the following major changes and enhancements:
Added new functions
pg_proaudit_set_ruleandpg_proaudit_remove_rulethat allow creating and removing logging rules, respectively. These functions replacedpg_proaudit_set_object,pg_proaudit_set_role,pg_proaudit_reset_object, andpg_proaudit_reset_role.Implemented the ability to log groups of events by specifying the respective value in the
event_typeargument.Added the
commentcolumn in thepg_proaudit_settingsview that displays the comment to describe the created logging rule.Implemented the ability to log security events related to objects of the
PREPARED STATEMENTtype as well as events of theDEALLOCATE,EXECUTE, andPREPAREtypes.Fixed an issue with incorrect logging of the
CREATE DATABASE,CREATE GROUP,CREATE ROLE,CREATE TABLESPACE, andCREATE USERsecurity events. Previously, these events were logged asSUCCESSafter the syntax check and before the command execution itself. NowSUCCESSis written in the log when the command execution finishes, and if the command fails, it is marked asFAILURE.
Upgradedpg_probackup to version 2.7.2, which provides optimizations and bug fixes:
Fixed an issue that occurred during an incremental backup when a table that was not yet copied got removed from CFS.
Fixed the order of processing WAL files by the
archive-pushcommand when the number of WAL files exceeds the specified--batch-size.Fixed an error“WAL segment is absent” that could occur when the size of a WAL record being logged exceeded the size of a WAL segment.
Upgradedpg_repack to version 1.5.0.
Upgradedpg_variables, which now provides iterator functionality for any collections, as well as functions to work with general collection variables. These functions allow accessing collection elements by a key that can have either integer or text type. These enhancements facilitate migration of Oracle code that processes collections.
Upgradedpgpro_stats to version 1.7, which provides optimizations and bug fixes:
Similarly to apg_stat_statements fix, changedpgpro_stats to read its“query texts” file in units of at most 1GB. Such large query text files are very unusual, but if they do occur, the previous coding would fail on Windows 64 (which rejects individual read requests of more than 2GB).
Implemented backward compatibility of
pgpro_stats_statementsandpgpro_stats_totalsfunctions. Now a newer version of thepgpro_stats shared library can be safely used with old declarations of SQL functions. Previously such cases caused a server crash.Fixed an issue that prevented output of database vacuuming statistics in the
pgpro_stats_vacuum_databaseview.
Upgradedpgpro_pwr to version 4.4, which supportspgpro_stats 1.7, as well as adds more interactive features and substring-based filtering to the report.
E.8.2. Migration to Version 14.11.1
If you are upgrading fromPostgres Pro Standard based on the samePostgreSQL major version, it is enough to install the new version into your current installation directory.
Starting fromPostgres Pro Standard 14.10.1, the privileges ofCREATEROLE are restricted, and modification of other roles requires the role requesting the change to have theADMIN OPTION permission.
When upgrading toPostgres Pro versions starting with 14.8.1, make sure to upgradepg_probackup to version 2.6.3 or higher since lower versions are incompatible with thesePostgres Pro versions.
To migrate fromPostgreSQL or aPostgres Pro Standard release based on a previousPostgreSQL major version, see the instructions inPostgres Pro Standard 14.1.1 Release Notes.