A.1. Postgres Pro Shardman 14.20.1 #
Release date: 2026-02-02
This release is based on PostgreSQL 14.20 and Shardman 14.19.1 and provides new features, optimizations and bug fixes. Major changes are as follows:
A.1.1. Core and Extensions #
Fixed a bug that previously resulted in the autovacuum waiting for the lock to be released from a table.
Updated the supported version of pgpro_pwr to 4.12.
Updated the supported version of pgpro_stats to 1.10-sdm4.
A.1.2. Management Utilities #
Added support for adding a follower to the standby cluster. Also enabled
--data-checksumsby default at cluster initialization.Added a feature to deploy a standby cluster from the primary cluster backup with
shardmanctl probackup restoreby specifying the cluster--backup-pathbackup path from the data center.pathAdded information about a standby cluster lagging behind the primary cluster to the
shardmanctl statuscommand output.Added the
syncpointSwitchWalDisabledconfiguration parameter to theShardSpecspecification, it disables the WAL switch after a syncpoint is created.Added the switchover step when stopping a node or a shard. Also, added a prompt to the
shardmanctl shard switchcommand whether to set the current node as primary.Added new standby cluster logic for processing errors in case of the timeline switch when receiving WAL from the primary cluster.
Ended pg_basebackup support for backups.
Improved the standby keeper mechanism to avoid overhead and excessive iterations.
Fixed a bug that previously resulted in the
shardmanctl cluster stop,shardmanctl shard stop, andshardmanctl nodes stopcommands failure for a standby cluster.Fixed a bug that prevented setting the 0 and 1 values for the postgres_fdw parameters.
Fixed the CVE-2025-47914 and CVE-2025-58181 vulnerabilities.
Fixed a bug that previously resulted in the pg_receivewal failure when switching the primary node.
Fixed a bug that caused the standby cluster configuration update failure.