E.15. Postgres Pro Standard 9.6.11.1
Release date: 2018-10-16
E.15.1. Overview
This release is based onPostgreSQL 9.6.11 andPostgres Pro Standard 9.6.10.3. All improvements inherited fromPostgreSQL 9.6.11 are listed inPostgreSQL 9.6.11 Release Notes.
Major enhancements overPostgres Pro Standard 9.6.10.3 include:
Added support for Ubuntu 18.10, Astra Linux Smolensk 1.6, and Red OS Murom 7 operating systems.
Improvedplantuner stability and fixed a memory leak.
Fixed an issue in index search that caused a slowdown when using complex
jsquery
values.Planning for queries with multiple
OR
operators in theWHERE
clause has been improved.Updated
pg_pathman
module to version 1.5.2. As compared to version 1.4.14 provided in the previousPostgres Pro releases, the following enhancements were introduced:Added support for multilevel partitioning.
Eliminated update triggers and added
pg_pathman.enable_partitionrouter
parameter to enable/disable cross-partition updates.Renamed
get_pathman_lib_version()
topathman_version()
.Provided other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements. For a full list of changes, seepg_pathman Wiki.
Updated
pg_probackup
module to version 2.0.24. As compared to version 2.0.19 provided in the previousPostgres Pro releases, the following enhancements were introduced:If unchanged since the previous backup, files that do not store relation data are now skipped in incremental backups.
Version number specified in
pg_probackup.conf
is now preserved when this file gets updated, which allows to correctly identifypg_probackup version used to take the backup.Fixed an issue with restoring compressed file blocks and enhanced checks for compression errors. Previously,pg_probackup could not restore file blocks that the
zlib
algorithm failed to compress during backup. This issue could not be detected by the built-inpg_probackup validation mechanism as it occurs on a lower level that validation itself. You are recommended to re-validate existing backups using thispg_probackup version.Improved validation algorithm. Files are now validated block by block by default, not only in case of file-level checksum mismatch. You can disable this behavior using the
--skip-block-validation
option.Allowed restarting a backup merge if the previous attempt has been interrupted.
Allowed taking backups from standby servers without connecting to the master. Besides,pg_probackup now uses its built-in mechanism to determine the consistency point, so there is no risk that backups from standby contain any inconsistent data.
Introduced the following changes for Windows version ofPostgres Pro:
PL/Perl now requires ActivePerl 5.26.
32-bitPostgres Pro version is no longer provided.
E.15.2. Migration to Version 9.6.11.1
Depending on your current installation, the upgrade procedure will differ.
To upgrade from aPostgres Pro Standard version based on any previousPostgreSQL major release, make sure you have installed its latest minor version, and then perform a dump/restore usingpg_dumpall or use thepg_upgrade utility.
To upgrade from aPostgres Pro Standard version based on the samePostgreSQL major release, a dump/restore is not required.
When upgrading from versions 9.6.8.2 or lower, you must call theREINDEX
command for indexes that usedmchar
ormvarchar
types.
If you are upgrading fromPostgres Pro Standard 9.6.7.1 or lower, you must also use thepgpro_upgrade script provided in this distribution. This script updates metadata information to handle catalog number format change introduced afterPostgres Pro Standard 9.6.4.1, as well as rename thepgpro_build
function topgpro_source_id
. If you are upgrading yourPostgres Pro installation from a binary package, thepgpro_upgrade
script is run automatically, unless you are prompted to run it manually.
Note
If you runpgpro_upgrade
manually, you must stop postgres service. The script must be run on behalf of the user owning the database (typically postgres). Runningpgpro_upgrade
as root will result in an error. For details, seepgpro_upgrade.
If you have compiledPostgres Pro from source code or created your database in a non-default location, you must run thepgpro_upgrade
script manually.
Note
On RPM-based Linux distributions, if you are upgrading from version 9.6.2.1 or lower, make sure to move the data directory frompgsql
to thepgpro
directory before running thepgpro_upgrade
script.
To migrate from vanilla PostgreSQL 9.6.x, perform a dump/restore usingpg_dumpall.