E.16. Postgres Pro Enterprise 10.13.1

Release date: 2020-05-27

E.16.1. Overview

This release is based on PostgreSQL 10.13 and Postgres Pro Enterprise 10.12.2. All changes inherited from PostgreSQL 10.13 are listed in PostgreSQL 10.13 Release Notes. Other major changes and enhancements are as follows:

  • Fixed an issue that could lead to server failure if autovacuum tried to access a manually dropped temporary namespace.

  • Fixed an issue that could lead to losing transactional consistency if multiple autonomous transactions were in use.

  • Updated CFS to allow changing the cfs_gc_threshold parameter for the current session. Now you can temporarily set it to a smaller value if you would like to manually defragment a relation with a smaller percent of garbage than is currently allowed.

  • Fixed a memory leak that could occur during join operations if they required estimating multiple query execution paths for complex queries.

  • Added the --no-data-checksums option for initdb to allow initializing Postgres Pro clusters with checksums disabled.

  • Added support for Oracle Linux 8.

  • Added support for ALT Linux 8 SP.

  • Added support for Ubuntu 20.04.

  • Added the plpython3 package for Rosa Enterprise Linux Server 7, ROSA COBALT (server edition) based on Rosa platform 7, and AlterOS 7.5 distributions where it was previously missing. Now it is available on all supported platforms except SLES 11.

  • Upgraded several libraries provided with Postgres Pro on Windows. Now the following libraries are used: OpenSSL 1.1.1g, libzstd 1.4.4, gettext 0.20.2, libiconv 1.16, libxml2 2.9.9, and libxslt 1.1.32. The ICU library has been upgraded from version 56.1 to 56.2.

  • Upgraded pgpro_scheduler to version 2.6. This version introduces several enhancements, including a full rework of cron parser implementation. Besides, pgpro_scheduler now starts scheduled jobs once a background worker becomes available if there were not enough workers to start the job on time.

  • Upgraded pageinspect to version 1.6 to correctly handle 64-bit transaction IDs.

  • Updated vops to provide an automated way of generating and accessing vectorized data. For details, see Section F.69.5.5.

  • Upgraded pg_pathman to version 1.5.11 to avoid server failure when trying to access child partitions without the required permissions while parent table access is allowed. This issue could previously occur when using pg_pathman with Postgres Pro 11.7.1 or higher.

E.16.2. Migration to Version 10.13.1

If you are upgrading from a Postgres Pro Enterprise release based on the same PostgreSQL major version, it is enough to install the new version into your current installation directory.

While functions numeric_eq, numeric_ne, numeric_gt, numeric_ge, numeric_lt, and numeric_le are actually leakproof, they were not marked as such in Postgres Pro Enterprise 10.11.1 or lower, which could lead to incorrect query optimization. In particular, it negatively affected query execution if row-level security policy was in use. Version 10.12.1 repairs this issue for new installations by correcting the initial catalog data, but existing installations will still have incorrect markings unless you update pg_proc entries for these functions. You can run pg_upgrade to upgrade your server instance to a version containing the corrected initial data, or manually correct these entries in each database of the installation using the ALTER FUNCTION command. For example:

ALTER FUNCTION pg_catalog.numeric_eq LEAKPROOF

Starting from Postgres Pro Enterprise 10.11.1, the ICU library upgrade does not interfere with the server start. Before connecting to a database using ICU as the default collation, Postgres Pro compares this collation version to the one provided by the ICU library and displays a warning if the collation versions do not match; you may need to rebuild the objects that depend on the default collation if you think the collation change may affect the sort order of your data. To suppress these warnings, you can use the ALTER COLLATION "default" REFRESH VERSION command, as explained in ALTER COLLATION.

When upgrading from versions 10.6.2 or lower, you must run the REINDEX command to rebuild GIN, GiST, and SP-GiST indexes to fix replication issues that could be observed in these versions. You should also retake all backups for these versions if your database had such indexes.

When upgrading from versions 10.3.3 or lower, you have to rebuild GiST indexes built over columns of the intarray type, as well as indexes that use mchar or mvarchar types.

To migrate from PostgreSQL, as well as Postgres Pro Standard or Postgres Pro Enterprise based on a previous PostgreSQL major version, see the migration instructions for version 10. If you are opting for a dump/restore, make sure to use the --add-collprovider option to correctly choose the provider for the default collation of the migrated database.