E.11. Postgres Pro Standard 14.8.1
Release Date: 2023-05-23
E.11.1. Overview
This release is based on PostgreSQL 14.8 and Postgres Pro Standard 14.7.1. All improvements inherited from PostgreSQL 14.8 are listed in PostgreSQL 14.8 Release Notes. Other major changes and enhancements are as follows:
Added the unicode_nul_character_replacement_in_jsonb configuration parameter to replace
'\u0000'with the specified unicode character when calling a function processing JSONB.Added an operation log, which stores information about system events such as an upgrade, execution of pg_resetwal and so on, which is highly useful for vendor's technical support. Recording to the operation log is only done at the system level, and SQL functions are used to read it. (See Section 9.27.11.)
Ended support for Ubuntu 18.04/22.10 and added support for Ubuntu 23.04.
Added support for ROSA Chrome 2021.2.
Fixed an internal error that occurred during a self join removal. Previously, it was not taken into account that when an expression “A.x=B.x” was transformed to “A.x IS NOT NULL”, it was necessary to correct meta parameters of the transformed expression because of its different semantics. In particular, the initial expression can be used in cases such as selection of an attribute to sort by or being a
JOINparametrization expression, but this is inapplicable for the transformed expression.Upgraded mamonsu to version 3.5.3, which provides new features and bugfixes. Notable changes are as follows:
Removed the limitation that did not allow a user different from
mamonsuto read and edit the configuration fileagent.conf. Specifically, the pg_probackup plugin now works correctly when themamonsuuser owns the pg_probackup backup directory.For Postgres Pro 14 and higher, added
pg_stat_walmetrics to Zabbix configuration file being exported by the commandmamonsu export zabbix-parameters....Removed metrics that conflict native Zabbix agents from Zabbix configuration file being exported.
Fixed mamonsu choice of the default extension to collect statistics. Now when pgpro_stats and pg_stat_statements are both installed, pgpro_stats is correctly treated as the default one.
Added a check that the server where mamonsu WAL plugin runs is not in recovery.
Upgraded pg_probackup to version 2.6.3, which provides optimizations and bug fixes. Lower versions are incompatible with Postgres Pro 14.8.1. Notable changes are as follows:
Included the
catchupcommand, which was previously provided only in a test mode, in the production delivery.Added optimizations for incremental backups that reduce disk read amount almost twice.
Improved error and warning messaging and unified the error message style.
Fixed usability issues with the
showcommand, in particular: fixed displaying the recovery time, which could sometimes not be displayed after a successful backup; made the backup time be displayed in a table view even if the backup ended with an error.Fixed an error in specifying the relative path after restoring a cluster from a backup.
Corrected an improper assignment of backup IDs that took place in some cases.
Added an option to skip creation of a new backup instance or initialization of an existing one.
Fixed an issue with inclusion of the whole data in an incremental backup rather than only the changed data.
Upgraded pgpro_stats to version 1.6, which provides new features and bugfixes:
Implemented tracing of application sessions, based on filters, which trigger logging the execution of queries that match filtering conditions. You can use pgpro_stats functions to create, update or delete query filters. (See Section G.2.6.1 for details.)
Added functions for superuser to create views that emulate pg_stat_statements and pg_stat_kcache extensions. Specifically,
pg_stat_statements,pg_stat_statements_info,pg_stat_kcacheandpg_stat_kcache_detailviews can be created. Once they are created, you can work with them as if the appropriate extension is installed. (See Section G.2.6.2 for details.)Added
pgpro_stats_archiverview, which extends the pg_stat_archiver view by adding two fields, showing overall time that the archiver process was active and overall execution time of the archive command.Implemented backward compatibility of the vacuum statistics interface. Now a newer version of the pgpro_stats shared library can be safely used with old declarations of SQL functions. Previously such cases caused a server crash.
Fixed possible server crashes that could occur due to
PGDATAoverflow when in pgpro_stats, one or several long queries were executed. Now instead of storing query texts in a temporary file located in thePGDATA/pg_stat_tmppgpro_stats.stats_temp_directoryconfiguration parameter. If you wish, you can set this value equal to the value of the system configuration parameterstats_temp_directory. But keep in mind thatpgpro_stats.stats_temp_directorycan only be set at the server start.
Upgraded pgpro_pwr to version 4.1.3, which supports pgpro_stats 1.6 and provides the following new features:
Added report tables “Top tables by removed all-visible/all-frozed marks”.
Added a few new fields to the “Cluster Statistics” report table.
Upgraded PTRACK to version 2.4.3.
Upgraded orafce to version 4.2.6.
E.11.2. Migration to Version 14.8.1
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.
When upgrading to Postgres Pro versions starting with 14.8.1, make sure to upgrade pg_probackup to version 2.6.3 or higher since lower versions are incompatible with these Postgres Pro versions.
To migrate from PostgreSQL or a Postgres Pro Standard release based on a previous PostgreSQL major version, see the instructions in Postgres Pro Standard 14.1.1 Release Notes.