Postgres Pro Standard 14.13.1: release notes

E.1. Postgres Pro Standard 14.13.1

Release Date: 2024-08-15

E.1.1. Overview

This release is based on PostgreSQL 14.13 and Postgres Pro Standard 14.12.2. All improvements inherited from PostgreSQL 14.13 are listed in PostgreSQL 14.13 Release Notes. Other major changes and enhancements are as follows:

  • Enhanced performance of segment search by implementing a new search strategy, allowing faster detection of the last segment.

  • Implemented the interaction of the PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME profile parameter with the VALID UNTIL role attribute. Now if both of them are set, the warning about password expiration will be displayed.

  • Prevented potential authentication delays due to locking by not updating role's last login time if the role's profile USER_INACTIVE_TIME is set to unlimited (see Section 50.39 for details).

  • Fixed a bug that caused the optimizer to ignore columns from query conditions. Previously, when partially using a composite index, the number of rows could be overestimated, which led to an incorrect plan creation. The bug occurred due to a malfunction of the multi-column statistics elements.

  • Fixed a bug in ANALYZE that could occur because it was impossible to display the pg_statistic system catalog. For the fix to work, if your database has indexes with INCLUDE columns, after upgrading Postgres Pro, it is recommended to do another ANALYZE for these columns.

  • Added support for ALT 11.

  • Ended support for Ubuntu 23.04.

  • Upgraded the mchar extension to fix a bug that caused the mchar and mvarchar data types to ignore control characters during string comparison.

  • Upgraded pg_proaudit to provide the following optimizations and bug fixes:

    • Improved performance and added the pg_proaudit.max_rules_count parameter, which allows specifying the maximum number of rules allowed.

    • Corrected support of database names including uppercase symbols by the pg_proaudit_set_rule function.

  • Upgraded pg_probackup to version 2.8.3, which fixes backup validation for databases containing an OID larger than 109. Previously, the validation status could be displayed incorrectly in such cases.

  • Upgraded pg_filedump to version 17.0, which provides optimizations and bug fixes. In particular, contents of meta pages for GIN and SP-GiST indexes are now displayed correctly, and an issue of lacking memory for encoding and decompression is resolved.

  • Fixed incorrect behavior of pg_wait_sampling when used with the extended query protocol.

E.1.2. Migration to Version 14.13.1

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.

If you take backups using pg_probackup and you have previously upgraded it to version 2.8.0 or 2.8.1, make sure to upgrade it to version 2.8.2 or higher and retake a full backup after upgrade, since backups taken using those versions might be corrupted. If you suspect that your backups taken with versions 2.8.0 or 2.8.1 may be corrupted, you can validate them using version 2.8.2.

Starting from Postgres Pro Standard 14.10.1, the privileges of CREATEROLE are restricted, and modification of other roles requires the role requesting the change to have the ADMIN OPTION permission.

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.