E.11. Postgres Pro Standard 12.11.2

Release Date: 2022-06-07

E.11.1. Overview

This release is based on PostgreSQL 12.11 and Postgres Pro Standard 12.11.1. All improvements inherited from PostgreSQL 12.11 are listed in PostgreSQL 12.11 Release Notes. Other major changes and enhancements are as follows:

  • Changed the algorithm of composite type name generation. This fixes an issue in the code of vanilla PostgreSQL, which strictly limits the number of tables with the same long prefix in names.

  • Upgraded pg_probackup to version 2.5.6, which provides the following new features and bugfixes as compared to version 2.5.5:

    • Added the --dry-run flag to the catchup command to allow you to estimate the size of data files to be transferred, but make no changes on disk.

    • Changed the level of detail of logging some catchup messages for user convenience of log reading.

    • Fixed a bug that prevented correct rereading of a block after a message File: ... blknum ... have wrong checksum, try again was issued.

E.11.2. Migration to Version 12.11.2

If you are upgrading from Postgres Pro Standard 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 Standard 12.1.1, which could lead to incorrect query optimization. In particular, it negatively affected query execution if row-level security policy was in use. Version 12.2.1 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

When upgrading from Postgres Pro versions 12.6.1 or lower, rebuild indexes containing at least one included column of type for which the collation was defined in the table.

If you are upgrading from Postgres Pro versions 12.6.2 or lower and take PTRACK backups using pg_probackup, retake a full backup after upgrade.