PostgreSQL 14

Release history

Every indexed release keeps its original occurrences. CVE counts below are mentions in its notes, including follow-up corrections; they do not count newly fixed vulnerabilities.

Initial release changes

Original entries from 14.0, including feature changes and compatibility notes. Categories aid browsing; they are not upstream classifications.

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• User-defined objects that reference certain built-in array functions along with their argument types must be recreated Compatibility Migration

  User-defined objects that reference certain built-in array functions along with their argument types must be recreated (Tom Lane) §

  Specifically, array_append(), array_prepend(), array_cat(), array_position(), array_positions(), array_remove(), array_replace(), and width_bucket() used to take anyarray arguments but now take anycompatiblearray. Therefore, user-defined objects like aggregates and operators that reference those array function signatures must be dropped before upgrading, and recreated once the upgrade completes.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/001

• Remove deprecated containment operators @ and ~ for built-in geometric data types and contrib modules cube, hstore, intarray, and seg Compatibility Migration

  Remove deprecated containment operators @ and ~ for built-in geometric data types and contrib modules cube, hstore, intarray, and seg (Justin Pryzby) § §

  The more consistently named <@ and @> have been recommended for many years.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/002

• Fix to_tsquery() and websearch_to_tsquery() to properly parse query text containing discarded tokens Compatibility Migration

  Fix to_tsquery() and websearch_to_tsquery() to properly parse query text containing discarded tokens (Alexander Korotkov) §

  Certain discarded tokens, like underscore, caused the output of these functions to produce incorrect tsquery output, e.g., both websearch_to_tsquery('"pg_class pg"') and to_tsquery('pg_class <-> pg') used to output ( 'pg' & 'class' ) <-> 'pg', but now both output 'pg' <-> 'class' <-> 'pg'.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/003

• Fix websearch_to_tsquery() to properly parse multiple adjacent discarded tokens in quotes Compatibility Migration

  Fix websearch_to_tsquery() to properly parse multiple adjacent discarded tokens in quotes (Alexander Korotkov) §

  Previously, quoted text that contained multiple adjacent discarded tokens was treated as multiple tokens, causing incorrect tsquery output, e.g., websearch_to_tsquery('"aaa: bbb"') used to output 'aaa' <2> 'bbb', but now outputs 'aaa' <-> 'bbb'.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/004

• Change EXTRACT() to return type numeric instead of float8 Compatibility Migration

  Change EXTRACT() to return type numeric instead of float8 (Peter Eisentraut) §

  This avoids loss-of-precision issues in some usages. The old behavior can still be obtained by using the old underlying function date_part().

  Also, EXTRACT(date) now throws an error for units that are not part of the date data type.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/005

• Change var_samp() and stddev_samp() with numeric parameters to return NULL when the input is a single NaN value Compatibility Migration

  Change var_samp() and stddev_samp() with numeric parameters to return NULL when the input is a single NaN value (Tom Lane) §

  Previously NaN was returned.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/006

• Return false for has_column_privilege() checks on non-existent or dropped columns when using attribute numbers Compatibility Migration

  Return false for has_column_privilege() checks on non-existent or dropped columns when using attribute numbers (Joe Conway) §

  Previously such attribute numbers returned an invalid-column error.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/007

• Fix handling of infinite window function ranges Compatibility Migration

  Fix handling of infinite window function ranges (Tom Lane) §

  Previously window frame clauses like 'inf' PRECEDING AND 'inf' FOLLOWING returned incorrect results.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/008

• Remove factorial operators ! and !!, as well as function numeric_fac() Compatibility Migration

  Remove factorial operators ! and !!, as well as function numeric_fac() (Mark Dilger) §

  The factorial() function is still supported.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/009

• Disallow factorial() of negative numbers Compatibility Migration

  Disallow factorial() of negative numbers (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Previously such cases returned 1.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/010

• Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators Compatibility Migration

  Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators (Mark Dilger) §

  pg_dump and pg_upgrade will warn if postfix operators are being dumped.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/011

• Allow \D and \W shorthands to match newlines in regular expression newline-sensitive mode Compatibility Migration

  Allow \D and \W shorthands to match newlines in regular expression newline-sensitive mode (Tom Lane) §

  Previously they did not match newlines in this mode, but that disagrees with the behavior of other common regular expression engines. [^[:digit:]] or [^[:word:]] can be used to get the old behavior.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/012

• Disregard constraints when matching regular expression back-references Compatibility Migration

  Disregard constraints when matching regular expression back-references (Tom Lane) §

  For example, in (^\d+).*\1, the ^ constraint should be applied at the start of the string, but not when matching \1.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/013

• Disallow \w as a range start or end in regular expression character classes Compatibility Migration

  Disallow \w as a range start or end in regular expression character classes (Tom Lane) §

  This previously was allowed but produced unexpected results.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/014

• Require custom server parameter names to use only characters that are valid in unquoted SQL identifiers Compatibility Migration

  Require custom server parameter names to use only characters that are valid in unquoted SQL identifiers (Tom Lane) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/015

• Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to scram-sha-256 Compatibility Migration

  Change the default of the password_encryption server parameter to scram-sha-256 (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Previously it was md5. All new passwords will be stored as SHA256 unless this server setting is changed or the password is specified in MD5 format. Also, the legacy (and undocumented) Boolean-like values which were previously synonyms for md5 are no longer accepted.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/016

• Remove server parameter vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor Compatibility Migration

  Remove server parameter vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor (Peter Geoghegan) § §

  This setting was ignored starting in PostgreSQL version 13.3.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/017

• Remove server parameter operator_precedence_warning Compatibility Migration

  Remove server parameter operator_precedence_warning (Tom Lane) §

  This setting was used for warning applications about PostgreSQL 9.5 changes.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/018

• Overhaul the specification of clientcert in pg_hba.conf Compatibility Migration

  Overhaul the specification of clientcert in pg_hba.conf (Kyotaro Horiguchi) §

  Values 1/0/no-verify are no longer supported; only the strings verify-ca and verify-full can be used. Also, disallow verify-ca if cert authentication is enabled since cert requires verify-full checking.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/019

• Remove support for SSL compression Compatibility Migration

  Remove support for SSL compression (Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier) § §

  This was already disabled by default in previous PostgreSQL releases, and most modern OpenSSL and TLS versions no longer support it.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/020

• Remove server and libpq support for the version 2 wire protocol Compatibility Migration

  Remove server and libpq support for the version 2 wire protocol (Heikki Linnakangas) §

  This was last used as the default in PostgreSQL 7.3 (released in 2002).

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/021

• Disallow single-quoting of the language name in the CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE command Compatibility Migration

  Disallow single-quoting of the language name in the CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE command (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/022

• Remove the composite types that were formerly created for sequences and toast tables Compatibility Migration

  Remove the composite types that were formerly created for sequences and toast tables (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/023

• Process doubled quote marks in ecpg SQL command strings correctly Compatibility Migration

  Process doubled quote marks in ecpg SQL command strings correctly (Tom Lane) § §

  Previously 'abc''def' was passed to the server as 'abc'def', and "abc""def" was passed as "abc"def", causing syntax errors.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/024

• Prevent the containment operators (<@ and @>) for intarray from using GiST indexes Compatibility Migration

  Prevent the containment operators (<@ and @>) for intarray from using GiST indexes (Tom Lane) §

  Previously a full GiST index scan was required, so just avoid that and scan the heap, which is faster. Indexes created for this purpose should be removed.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/025

• Remove contrib program pg_standby Compatibility Migration

  Remove contrib program pg_standby (Justin Pryzby) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/026

• Prevent tablefunc's function normal_rand() from accepting negative values Compatibility Migration

  Prevent tablefunc's function normal_rand() from accepting negative values (Ashutosh Bapat) §

  Negative values produced undesirable results.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/migration/027

• Add predefined roles pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data Features

  Add predefined roles pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data (Stephen Frost) §

  These non-login roles can be used to give read or write permission to all tables, views, and sequences.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/001

• Add predefined role pg_database_owner that contains only the current database's owner Features

  Add predefined role pg_database_owner that contains only the current database's owner (Noah Misch) §

  This is especially useful in template databases.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/002

• Remove temporary files after backend crashes Features

  Remove temporary files after backend crashes (Euler Taveira) §

  Previously, such files were retained for debugging purposes. If necessary, deletion can be disabled with the new server parameter remove_temp_files_after_crash.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/003

• Allow long-running queries to be canceled if the client disconnects Features

  Allow long-running queries to be canceled if the client disconnects (Sergey Cherkashin, Thomas Munro) §

  The server parameter client_connection_check_interval allows control over whether loss of connection is checked for intra-query. (This is supported on Linux and a few other operating systems.)

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/004

• Add an optional timeout parameter to pg_terminate_backend() Features

  Add an optional timeout parameter to pg_terminate_backend() (Magnus Hagander) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/005

• Allow wide tuples to be always added to almost-empty heap pages Features

  Allow wide tuples to be always added to almost-empty heap pages (John Naylor, Floris van Nee) §

  Previously tuples whose insertion would have exceeded the page's fill factor were instead added to new pages.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/006

• Add Server Name Indication (SNI) in SSL connection packets Features

  Add Server Name Indication (SNI) in SSL connection packets (Peter Eisentraut) §

  This can be disabled by turning off client connection option sslsni.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/007

• Allow vacuum to skip index vacuuming when the number of removable index entries is insignificant Features

  Allow vacuum to skip index vacuuming when the number of removable index entries is insignificant (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan) § §

  The vacuum parameter INDEX_CLEANUP has a new default of auto that enables this optimization.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/008

• Allow vacuum to more eagerly add deleted btree pages to the free space map Features

  Allow vacuum to more eagerly add deleted btree pages to the free space map (Peter Geoghegan) §

  Previously vacuum could only add pages to the free space map that were marked as deleted by previous vacuums.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/009

• Allow vacuum to reclaim space used by unused trailing heap line pointers Features

  Allow vacuum to reclaim space used by unused trailing heap line pointers (Matthias van de Meent, Peter Geoghegan) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/010

• Allow vacuum to be more aggressive in removing dead rows during minimal-locking index operations Features

  Allow vacuum to be more aggressive in removing dead rows during minimal-locking index operations (Álvaro Herrera) § § §

  Specifically, CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY no longer limit the dead row removal of other relations.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/011

• Speed up vacuuming of databases with many relations Performance

  Speed up vacuuming of databases with many relations (Tatsuhito Kasahara) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/012

• Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss to better reflect current hardware capabilities Features

  Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss to better reflect current hardware capabilities (Peter Geoghegan) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/013

• Add ability to skip vacuuming of TOAST tables Features

  Add ability to skip vacuuming of TOAST tables (Nathan Bossart) §

  VACUUM now has a PROCESS_TOAST option which can be set to false to disable TOAST processing, and vacuumdb has a --no-process-toast option.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/014

• Have COPY FREEZE appropriately update page visibility bits Features

  Have COPY FREEZE appropriately update page visibility bits (Anastasia Lubennikova, Pavan Deolasee, Jeff Janes) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/015

• Cause vacuum operations to be more aggressive if the table is near xid or multixact wraparound Features

  Cause vacuum operations to be more aggressive if the table is near xid or multixact wraparound (Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan) §

  This is controlled by vacuum_failsafe_age and vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/016

• Increase warning time and hard limit before transaction id and multi-transaction wraparound Features

  Increase warning time and hard limit before transaction id and multi-transaction wraparound (Noah Misch) §

  This should reduce the possibility of failures that occur without having issued warnings about wraparound.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/017

• Add per-index information to autovacuum logging output Features

  Add per-index information to autovacuum logging output (Masahiko Sawada) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/018

• Improve the performance of updates and deletes on partitioned tables with many partitions Performance

  Improve the performance of updates and deletes on partitioned tables with many partitions (Amit Langote, Tom Lane) § § §

  This change greatly reduces the planner's overhead for such cases, and also allows updates/deletes on partitioned tables to use execution-time partition pruning.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/019

• Allow partitions to be detached in a non-blocking manner Features

  Allow partitions to be detached in a non-blocking manner (Álvaro Herrera) §

  The syntax is ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY, and FINALIZE.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/020

• Ignore COLLATE clauses in partition boundary values Features

  Ignore COLLATE clauses in partition boundary values (Tom Lane) §

  Previously any such clause had to match the collation of the partition key; but it's more consistent to consider that it's automatically coerced to the collation of the partition key.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/021

• Allow btree index additions to remove expired index entries to prevent page splits Features

  Allow btree index additions to remove expired index entries to prevent page splits (Peter Geoghegan) § §

  This is particularly helpful for reducing index bloat on tables whose indexed columns are frequently updated.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/022

• Allow BRIN indexes to record multiple min/max values per range Features

  Allow BRIN indexes to record multiple min/max values per range (Tomas Vondra) §

  This is useful if there are groups of values in each page range.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/023

• Allow BRIN indexes to use bloom filters Features

  Allow BRIN indexes to use bloom filters (Tomas Vondra) §

  This allows BRIN indexes to be used effectively with data that is not well-localized in the heap.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/024

• Allow some GiST indexes to be built by presorting the data Features

  Allow some GiST indexes to be built by presorting the data (Andrey Borodin) §

  Presorting happens automatically and allows for faster index creation and smaller indexes.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/025

• Allow SP-GiST indexes to contain INCLUDE'd columns Features

  Allow SP-GiST indexes to contain INCLUDE'd columns (Pavel Borisov) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/026

• Allow hash lookup for IN clauses with many constants Features

  Allow hash lookup for IN clauses with many constants (James Coleman, David Rowley) §

  Previously the code always sequentially scanned the list of values.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/027

• Increase the number of places extended statistics can be used for OR clause estimation Features

  Increase the number of places extended statistics can be used for OR clause estimation (Tomas Vondra, Dean Rasheed) § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/028

• Allow extended statistics on expressions Features

  Allow extended statistics on expressions (Tomas Vondra) §

  This allows statistics on a group of expressions and columns, rather than only columns like previously. System view pg_stats_ext_exprs reports such statistics.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/029

• Allow efficient heap scanning of a range of TIDs Features

  Allow efficient heap scanning of a range of TIDs (Edmund Horner, David Rowley) §

  Previously a sequential scan was required for non-equality TID specifications.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/030

• Fix EXPLAIN CREATE TABLE AS and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW to honor IF NOT EXISTS Bug fixes

  Fix EXPLAIN CREATE TABLE AS and EXPLAIN CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW to honor IF NOT EXISTS (Bharath Rupireddy) §

  Previously, if the object already existed, EXPLAIN would fail.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/031

• Improve the speed of computing MVCC visibility snapshots on systems with many CPUs and high session counts Performance

  Improve the speed of computing MVCC visibility snapshots on systems with many CPUs and high session counts (Andres Freund) § § § § § §

  This also improves performance when there are many idle sessions.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/032

• Add executor method to memoize results from the inner side of a nested-loop join Performance

  Add executor method to memoize results from the inner side of a nested-loop join (David Rowley) §

  This is useful if only a small percentage of rows is checked on the inner side. It can be disabled via server parameter enable_memoize.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/033

• Allow window functions to perform incremental sorts Performance

  Allow window functions to perform incremental sorts (David Rowley) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/034

• Improve the I/O performance of parallel sequential scans Performance

  Improve the I/O performance of parallel sequential scans (Thomas Munro, David Rowley) §

  This was done by allocating blocks in groups to parallel workers.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/035

• Allow a query referencing multiple foreign tables to perform foreign table scans in parallel Performance

  Allow a query referencing multiple foreign tables to perform foreign table scans in parallel (Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, Etsuro Fujita) §

  postgres_fdw supports this type of scan if async_capable is set.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/036

• Allow analyze to do page prefetching Performance

  Allow analyze to do page prefetching (Stephen Frost) §

  This is controlled by maintenance_io_concurrency.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/037

• Improve performance of regular expression searches Performance

  Improve performance of regular expression searches (Tom Lane) § § § § § § § § § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/038

• Dramatically improve Unicode normalization performance Performance

  Dramatically improve Unicode normalization performance (John Naylor) § §

  This speeds normalize() and IS NORMALIZED.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/039

• Add ability to use LZ4 compression on TOAST data Performance

  Add ability to use LZ4 compression on TOAST data (Dilip Kumar) §

  This can be set at the column level, or set as a default via server parameter default_toast_compression. The server must be compiled with --with-lz4 to support this feature. The default setting is still pglz.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/040

• If server parameter compute_query_id is enabled, display the query id in pg_stat_activity, EXPLAIN VERBOSE, csvlog, and optionally in log_line_prefix Features

  If server parameter compute_query_id is enabled, display the query id in pg_stat_activity, EXPLAIN VERBOSE, csvlog, and optionally in log_line_prefix (Julien Rouhaud) § § § § §

  A query id computed by an extension will also be displayed.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/041

• Improve logging of auto-vacuum and auto-analyze Features

  Improve logging of auto-vacuum and auto-analyze (Stephen Frost, Jakub Wartak) §

  This reports I/O timings for auto-vacuum and auto-analyze if track_io_timing is enabled. Also, report buffer read and dirty rates for auto-analyze.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/042

• Add information about the original user name supplied by the client to the output of log_connections Features

  Add information about the original user name supplied by the client to the output of log_connections (Jacob Champion) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/043

• Add system view pg_stat_progress_copy to report COPY progress Features

  Add system view pg_stat_progress_copy to report COPY progress (Josef Šimánek, Matthias van de Meent) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/044

• Add system view pg_stat_wal to report WAL activity Features

  Add system view pg_stat_wal to report WAL activity (Masahiro Ikeda) § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/045

• Add system view pg_stat_replication_slots to report replication slot activity Features

  Add system view pg_stat_replication_slots to report replication slot activity (Masahiko Sawada, Amit Kapila, Vignesh C) § § § §

  The function pg_stat_reset_replication_slot() resets slot statistics.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/046

• Add system view pg_backend_memory_contexts to report session memory usage Features

  Add system view pg_backend_memory_contexts to report session memory usage (Atsushi Torikoshi, Fujii Masao) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/047

• Add function pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() to output the memory contexts of arbitrary backends Features

  Add function pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() to output the memory contexts of arbitrary backends (Atsushi Torikoshi) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/048

• Add session statistics to the pg_stat_database system view Features

  Add session statistics to the pg_stat_database system view (Laurenz Albe) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/049

• Add columns to pg_prepared_statements to report generic and custom plan counts Features

  Add columns to pg_prepared_statements to report generic and custom plan counts (Atsushi Torikoshi, Kyotaro Horiguchi) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/050

• Add lock wait start time to pg_locks Features

  Add lock wait start time to pg_locks (Atsushi Torikoshi) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/051

• Make the archiver process visible in pg_stat_activity Features

  Make the archiver process visible in pg_stat_activity (Kyotaro Horiguchi) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/052

• Add wait event WalReceiverExit to report WAL receiver exit wait time Features

  Add wait event WalReceiverExit to report WAL receiver exit wait time (Fujii Masao) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/053

• Implement information schema view routine_column_usage to track columns referenced by function and procedure default expressions Features

  Implement information schema view routine_column_usage to track columns referenced by function and procedure default expressions (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/054

• Allow an SSL certificate's distinguished name (DN) to be matched for client certificate authentication Features

  Allow an SSL certificate's distinguished name (DN) to be matched for client certificate authentication (Andrew Dunstan) §

  The new pg_hba.conf option clientname=DN allows comparison with certificate attributes beyond the CN and can be combined with ident maps.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/055

• Allow pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf records to span multiple lines Features

  Allow pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf records to span multiple lines (Fabien Coelho) §

  A backslash at the end of a line allows record contents to be continued on the next line.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/056

• Allow the specification of a certificate revocation list (CRL) directory Features

  Allow the specification of a certificate revocation list (CRL) directory (Kyotaro Horiguchi) §

  This is controlled by server parameter ssl_crl_dir and libpq connection option sslcrldir. Previously only single CRL files could be specified.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/057

• Allow passwords of an arbitrary length Features

  Allow passwords of an arbitrary length (Tom Lane, Nathan Bossart) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/058

• Add server parameter idle_session_timeout to close idle sessions Features

  Add server parameter idle_session_timeout to close idle sessions (Li Japin) §

  This is similar to idle_in_transaction_session_timeout.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/059

• Change checkpoint_completion_target default to 0.9 Features

  Change checkpoint_completion_target default to 0.9 (Stephen Frost) §

  The previous default was 0.5.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/060

• Allow %P in log_line_prefix to report the parallel group leader's PID for a parallel worker Features

  Allow %P in log_line_prefix to report the parallel group leader's PID for a parallel worker (Justin Pryzby) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/061

• Allow unix_socket_directories to specify paths as individual, comma-separated quoted strings Features

  Allow unix_socket_directories to specify paths as individual, comma-separated quoted strings (Ian Lawrence Barwick) §

  Previously all the paths had to be in a single quoted string.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/062

• Allow startup allocation of dynamic shared memory Features

  Allow startup allocation of dynamic shared memory (Thomas Munro) §

  This is controlled by min_dynamic_shared_memory. This allows more use of huge pages.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/063

• Add server parameter huge_page_size to control the size of huge pages used on Linux Features

  Add server parameter huge_page_size to control the size of huge pages used on Linux (Odin Ugedal) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/064

• Allow standby servers to be rewound via pg_rewind Features

  Allow standby servers to be rewound via pg_rewind (Heikki Linnakangas) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/065

• Allow the restore_command setting to be changed during a server reload Features

  Allow the restore_command setting to be changed during a server reload (Sergei Kornilov) §

  You can also set restore_command to an empty string and reload to force recovery to only read from the pg_wal directory.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/066

• Add server parameter log_recovery_conflict_waits to report long recovery conflict wait times Features

  Add server parameter log_recovery_conflict_waits to report long recovery conflict wait times (Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/067

• Pause recovery on a hot standby server if the primary changes its parameters in a way that prevents replay on the standby Features

  Pause recovery on a hot standby server if the primary changes its parameters in a way that prevents replay on the standby (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Previously the standby would shut down immediately.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/068

• Add function pg_get_wal_replay_pause_state() to report the recovery state Features

  Add function pg_get_wal_replay_pause_state() to report the recovery state (Dilip Kumar) §

  It gives more detailed information than pg_is_wal_replay_paused(), which still exists.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/069

• Add new read-only server parameter in_hot_standby Features

  Add new read-only server parameter in_hot_standby (Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Tom Lane) §

  This allows clients to easily detect whether they are connected to a hot standby server.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/070

• Speed truncation of small tables during recovery on clusters with a large number of shared buffers Features

  Speed truncation of small tables during recovery on clusters with a large number of shared buffers (Kirk Jamison) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/071

• Allow file system sync at the start of crash recovery on Linux Features

  Allow file system sync at the start of crash recovery on Linux (Thomas Munro) §

  By default, PostgreSQL opens and fsyncs each data file in the database cluster at the start of crash recovery. A new setting, recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs, instead syncs each filesystem used by the cluster. This allows for faster recovery on systems with many database files.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/072

• Add function pg_xact_commit_timestamp_origin() to return the commit timestamp and replication origin of the specified transaction Features

  Add function pg_xact_commit_timestamp_origin() to return the commit timestamp and replication origin of the specified transaction (Movead Li) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/073

• Add the replication origin to the record returned by pg_last_committed_xact() Features

  Add the replication origin to the record returned by pg_last_committed_xact() (Movead Li) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/074

• Allow replication origin functions to be controlled using standard function permission controls Features

  Allow replication origin functions to be controlled using standard function permission controls (Martín Marqués) §

  Previously these functions could only be executed by superusers, and this is still the default.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/075

• Allow logical replication to stream long in-progress transactions to subscribers Features

  Allow logical replication to stream long in-progress transactions to subscribers (Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila, Ajin Cherian, Tomas Vondra, Nikhil Sontakke, Stas Kelvich) § § § §

  Previously transactions that exceeded logical_decoding_work_mem were written to disk until the transaction completed.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/076

• Enhance the logical replication API to allow streaming large in-progress transactions Features

  Enhance the logical replication API to allow streaming large in-progress transactions (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila) §

  The output functions begin with stream. test_decoding also supports these.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/077

• Allow multiple transactions during table sync in logical replication Features

  Allow multiple transactions during table sync in logical replication (Peter Smith, Amit Kapila, Takamichi Osumi) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/078

• Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID association Features

  Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID association (Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila) §

  This is useful for logical decoding.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/079

• Enhance logical decoding APIs to handle two-phase commits Features

  Enhance logical decoding APIs to handle two-phase commits (Ajin Cherian, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke, Stas Kelvich) § § §

  This is controlled via pg_create_logical_replication_slot().

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/080

• Add cache invalidation messages to the WAL during command completion when using logical replication Features

  Add cache invalidation messages to the WAL during command completion when using logical replication (Dilip Kumar, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila) §

  This allows logical streaming of in-progress transactions. When logical replication is disabled, invalidation messages are generated only at transaction completion.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/081

• Allow logical decoding to more efficiently process cache invalidation messages Features

  Allow logical decoding to more efficiently process cache invalidation messages (Dilip Kumar) §

  This allows logical decoding to work efficiently in presence of a large amount of DDL.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/082

• Allow control over whether logical decoding messages are sent to the replication stream Features

  Allow control over whether logical decoding messages are sent to the replication stream (David Pirotte, Euler Taveira) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/083

• Allow logical replication subscriptions to use binary transfer mode Features

  Allow logical replication subscriptions to use binary transfer mode (Dave Cramer) §

  This is faster than text mode, but slightly less robust.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/084

• Allow logical decoding to be filtered by xid Features

  Allow logical decoding to be filtered by xid (Markus Wanner) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/085

• Reduce the number of keywords that can't be used as column labels without AS Features

  Reduce the number of keywords that can't be used as column labels without AS (Mark Dilger) §

  There are now 90% fewer restricted keywords.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/086

• Allow an alias to be specified for JOIN's USING clause Features

  Allow an alias to be specified for JOIN's USING clause (Peter Eisentraut) §

  The alias is created by writing AS after the USING clause. It can be used as a table qualification for the merged USING columns.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/087

• Allow DISTINCT to be added to GROUP BY to remove duplicate GROUPING SET combinations Features

  Allow DISTINCT to be added to GROUP BY to remove duplicate GROUPING SET combinations (Vik Fearing) §

  For example, GROUP BY CUBE (a,b), CUBE (b,c) will generate duplicate grouping combinations without DISTINCT.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/088

• Properly handle DEFAULT entries in multi-row VALUES lists in INSERT Features

  Properly handle DEFAULT entries in multi-row VALUES lists in INSERT (Dean Rasheed) §

  Such cases used to throw an error.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/089

• Add SQL-standard SEARCH and CYCLE clauses for common table expressions Features

  Add SQL-standard SEARCH and CYCLE clauses for common table expressions (Peter Eisentraut) § §

  The same results could be accomplished using existing syntax, but much less conveniently.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/090

• Allow column names in the WHERE clause of ON CONFLICT to be table-qualified Features

  Allow column names in the WHERE clause of ON CONFLICT to be table-qualified (Tom Lane) §

  Only the target table can be referenced, however.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/091

• Allow REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW to use parallelism Features

  Allow REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW to use parallelism (Bharath Rupireddy) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/092

• Allow REINDEX to change the tablespace of the new index Features

  Allow REINDEX to change the tablespace of the new index (Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby) § §

  This is done by specifying a TABLESPACE clause. A --tablespace option was also added to reindexdb to control this.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/093

• Allow REINDEX to process all child tables or indexes of a partitioned relation Features

  Allow REINDEX to process all child tables or indexes of a partitioned relation (Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/094

• Allow index commands using CONCURRENTLY to avoid waiting for the completion of other operations using CONCURRENTLY Features

  Allow index commands using CONCURRENTLY to avoid waiting for the completion of other operations using CONCURRENTLY (Álvaro Herrera) § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/095

• Improve the performance of COPY FROM in binary mode Performance

  Improve the performance of COPY FROM in binary mode (Bharath Rupireddy, Amit Langote) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/096

• Preserve SQL standard syntax for SQL-defined functions in view definitions Features

  Preserve SQL standard syntax for SQL-defined functions in view definitions (Tom Lane) §

  Previously, calls to SQL-standard functions such as EXTRACT() were shown in plain function-call syntax. The original syntax is now preserved when displaying a view or rule.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/097

• Add the SQL-standard clause GRANTED BY to GRANT and REVOKE Features

  Add the SQL-standard clause GRANTED BY to GRANT and REVOKE (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/098

• Add OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER Features

  Add OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER (Takamichi Osumi) §

  This allows pre-existing triggers to be conditionally replaced.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/099

• Allow TRUNCATE to operate on foreign tables Features

  Allow TRUNCATE to operate on foreign tables (Kazutaka Onishi, Kohei KaiGai) §

  The postgres_fdw module also now supports this.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/100

• Allow publications to be more easily added to and removed from a subscription Features

  Allow publications to be more easily added to and removed from a subscription (Japin Li) §

  The new syntax is ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION. This avoids having to specify all publications to add/remove entries.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/101

• Add primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys to system catalogs Features

  Add primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys to system catalogs (Peter Eisentraut) § §

  These changes help GUI tools analyze the system catalogs. The existing unique indexes of catalogs now have associated UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraints. Foreign key relationships are not actually stored or implemented as constraints, but can be obtained for display from the function pg_get_catalog_foreign_keys().

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/102

• Allow CURRENT_ROLE every place CURRENT_USER is accepted Features

  Allow CURRENT_ROLE every place CURRENT_USER is accepted (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/103

• Allow extensions and built-in data types to implement subscripting Features

  Allow extensions and built-in data types to implement subscripting (Dmitry Dolgov) §

  Previously subscript handling was hard-coded into the server, so that subscripting could only be applied to array types. This change allows subscript notation to be used to extract or assign portions of a value of any type for which the concept makes sense.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/104

• Allow subscripting of JSONB Features

  Allow subscripting of JSONB (Dmitry Dolgov) § § §

  JSONB subscripting can be used to extract and assign to portions of JSONB documents.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/105

• Add support for multirange data types Features

  Add support for multirange data types (Paul Jungwirth, Alexander Korotkov) § § § §

  These are like range data types, but they allow the specification of multiple, ordered, non-overlapping ranges. An associated multirange type is automatically created for every range type.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/106

• Add support for the stemming of languages Armenian, Basque, Catalan, Hindi, Serbian, and Yiddish Features

  Add support for the stemming of languages Armenian, Basque, Catalan, Hindi, Serbian, and Yiddish (Peter Eisentraut) § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/107

• Allow tsearch data files to have unlimited line lengths Features

  Allow tsearch data files to have unlimited line lengths (Tom Lane) §

  The previous limit was 4K bytes. Also remove function t_readline().

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/108

• Add support for Infinity and -Infinity values in the numeric data type Features

  Add support for Infinity and -Infinity values in the numeric data type (Tom Lane) §

  Floating-point data types already supported these.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/109

• Add point operators <<| and |>> representing strictly above/below tests Features

  Add point operators <<| and |>> representing strictly above/below tests (Emre Hasegeli) §

  Previously these were called >^ and <^, but that naming is inconsistent with other geometric data types. The old names remain available, but may someday be removed.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/110

• Add operators to add and subtract LSN and numeric (byte) values Features

  Add operators to add and subtract LSN and numeric (byte) values (Fujii Masao) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/111

• Allow binary data transfer to be more forgiving of array and record OID mismatches Features

  Allow binary data transfer to be more forgiving of array and record OID mismatches (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/112

• Create composite array types for system catalogs Features

  Create composite array types for system catalogs (Wenjing Zeng) §

  User-defined relations have long had composite types associated with them, and also array types over those composite types. System catalogs now do as well. This change also fixes an inconsistency that creating a user-defined table in single-user mode would fail to create a composite array type.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/113

• Allow SQL-language functions and procedures to use SQL-standard function bodies Features

  Allow SQL-language functions and procedures to use SQL-standard function bodies (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Previously only string-literal function bodies were supported. When writing a function or procedure in SQL-standard syntax, the body is parsed immediately and stored as a parse tree. This allows better tracking of function dependencies, and can have security benefits.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/114

• Allow procedures to have OUT parameters Features

  Allow procedures to have OUT parameters (Peter Eisentraut) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/115

• Allow some array functions to operate on a mix of compatible data types Features

  Allow some array functions to operate on a mix of compatible data types (Tom Lane) §

  The functions array_append(), array_prepend(), array_cat(), array_position(), array_positions(), array_remove(), array_replace(), and width_bucket() now take anycompatiblearray instead of anyarray arguments. This makes them less fussy about exact matches of argument types.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/116

• Add SQL-standard trim_array() function Features

  Add SQL-standard trim_array() function (Vik Fearing) §

  This could already be done with array slices, but less easily.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/117

• Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim() Features

  Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim() (Joel Jacobson) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/118

• Support negative indexes in split_part() Features

  Support negative indexes in split_part() (Nikhil Benesch) §

  Negative values start from the last field and count backward.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/119

• Add string_to_table() function to split a string on delimiters Features

  Add string_to_table() function to split a string on delimiters (Pavel Stehule) §

  This is similar to the regexp_split_to_table() function.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/120

• Add unistr() function to allow Unicode characters to be specified as backslash-hex escapes in strings Features

  Add unistr() function to allow Unicode characters to be specified as backslash-hex escapes in strings (Pavel Stehule) §

  This is similar to how Unicode can be specified in literal strings.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/121

• Add bit_xor() XOR aggregate function Features

  Add bit_xor() XOR aggregate function (Alexey Bashtanov) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/122

• Add function bit_count() to return the number of bits set in a bit or byte string Features

  Add function bit_count() to return the number of bits set in a bit or byte string (David Fetter) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/123

• Add date_bin() function Features

  Add date_bin() function (John Naylor) § §

  This function “bins” input timestamps, grouping them into intervals of a uniform length aligned with a specified origin.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/124

• Allow make_timestamp()/make_timestamptz() to accept negative years Features

  Allow make_timestamp()/make_timestamptz() to accept negative years (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Negative values are interpreted as BC years.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/125

• Add newer regular expression substring() syntax Features

  Add newer regular expression substring() syntax (Peter Eisentraut) §

  The new SQL-standard syntax is SUBSTRING(text SIMILAR pattern ESCAPE escapechar). The previous standard syntax was SUBSTRING(text FROM pattern FOR escapechar), which is still accepted by PostgreSQL.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/126

• Allow complemented character class escapes \D, \S, and \W within regular expression brackets Features

  Allow complemented character class escapes \D, \S, and \W within regular expression brackets (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/127

• Add [[:word:]] as a regular expression character class, equivalent to \w Features

  Add [[:word:]] as a regular expression character class, equivalent to \w (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/128

• Allow more flexible data types for default values of lead() and lag() window functions Features

  Allow more flexible data types for default values of lead() and lag() window functions (Vik Fearing) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/129

• Make non-zero floating-point values divided by infinity return zero Features

  Make non-zero floating-point values divided by infinity return zero (Kyotaro Horiguchi) §

  Previously such operations produced underflow errors.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/130

• Make floating-point division of NaN by zero return NaN Features

  Make floating-point division of NaN by zero return NaN (Tom Lane) §

  Previously this returned an error.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/131

• Cause exp() and power() for negative-infinity exponents to return zero Features

  Cause exp() and power() for negative-infinity exponents to return zero (Tom Lane) § § §

  Previously they often returned underflow errors.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/132

• Improve the accuracy of geometric computations involving infinity Features

  Improve the accuracy of geometric computations involving infinity (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/133

• Mark built-in type coercion functions as leakproof where possible Features

  Mark built-in type coercion functions as leakproof where possible (Tom Lane) §

  This allows more use of functions that require type conversion in security-sensitive situations.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/134

• Change pg_describe_object(), pg_identify_object(), and pg_identify_object_as_address() to always report helpful error messages for non-existent objects Features

  Change pg_describe_object(), pg_identify_object(), and pg_identify_object_as_address() to always report helpful error messages for non-existent objects (Michael Paquier) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/135

• Improve PL/pgSQL's expression and assignment parsing Features

  Improve PL/pgSQL's expression and assignment parsing (Tom Lane) §

  This change allows assignment to array slices and nested record fields.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/136

• Allow plpgsql's RETURN QUERY to execute its query using parallelism Features

  Allow plpgsql's RETURN QUERY to execute its query using parallelism (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/137

• Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql procedures Performance

  Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql procedures (Pavel Stehule, Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/138

• Add pipeline mode to libpq Features

  Add pipeline mode to libpq (Craig Ringer, Matthieu Garrigues, Álvaro Herrera) §

  This allows multiple queries to be sent, only waiting for completion when a specific synchronization message is sent.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/139

• Enhance libpq's target_session_attrs parameter options Features

  Enhance libpq's target_session_attrs parameter options (Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Vignesh C, Tom Lane) § §

  The new options are read-only, primary, standby, and prefer-standby.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/140

• Improve the output format of libpq's PQtrace() Features

  Improve the output format of libpq's PQtrace() (Aya Iwata, Álvaro Herrera) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/141

• Allow an ECPG SQL identifier to be linked to a specific connection Features

  Allow an ECPG SQL identifier to be linked to a specific connection (Hayato Kuroda) §

  This is done via DECLARE ... STATEMENT.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/142

• Allow vacuumdb to skip index cleanup and truncation Features

  Allow vacuumdb to skip index cleanup and truncation (Nathan Bossart) §

  The options are --no-index-cleanup and --no-truncate.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/143

• Allow pg_dump to dump only certain extensions Features

  Allow pg_dump to dump only certain extensions (Guillaume Lelarge) §

  This is controlled by option --extension.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/144

• Add pgbench permute() function to randomly shuffle values Features

  Add pgbench permute() function to randomly shuffle values (Fabien Coelho, Hironobu Suzuki, Dean Rasheed) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/145

• Include disconnection times in the reconnection overhead measured by pgbench with -C Features

  Include disconnection times in the reconnection overhead measured by pgbench with -C (Yugo Nagata) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/146

• Allow multiple verbose option specifications (-v) to increase the logging verbosity Features

  Allow multiple verbose option specifications (-v) to increase the logging verbosity (Tom Lane) §

  This behavior is supported by pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/147

• Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify function and operator argument types Features

  Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify function and operator argument types (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane) §

  This helps reduce the number of matches printed for overloaded names.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/148

• Add an access method column to psql's \d[i|m|t]+ output Features

  Add an access method column to psql's \d[i|m|t]+ output (Georgios Kokolatos) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/149

• Allow psql's \dt and \di to show TOAST tables and their indexes Features

  Allow psql's \dt and \di to show TOAST tables and their indexes (Justin Pryzby) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/150

• Add psql command \dX to list extended statistics objects Features

  Add psql command \dX to list extended statistics objects (Tatsuro Yamada) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/151

• Fix psql's \dT to understand array syntax and backend grammar aliases, like int for integer Bug fixes

  Fix psql's \dT to understand array syntax and backend grammar aliases, like int for integer (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/152

• When editing the previous query or a file with psql's \e, or using \ef and \ev, ignore the results if the editor exits without saving Features

  When editing the previous query or a file with psql's \e, or using \ef and \ev, ignore the results if the editor exits without saving (Laurenz Albe) §

  Previously, such edits would load the previous query into the query buffer, and typically execute it immediately. This was deemed to be probably not what the user wants.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/153

• Improve tab completion Features

  Improve tab completion (Vignesh C, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby, Georgios Kokolatos, Julien Rouhaud) § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/154

• Add command-line utility pg_amcheck to simplify running contrib/amcheck tests on many relations Features

  Add command-line utility pg_amcheck to simplify running contrib/amcheck tests on many relations (Mark Dilger) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/155

• Add --no-instructions option to initdb Features

  Add --no-instructions option to initdb (Magnus Hagander) §

  This suppresses the server startup instructions that are normally printed.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/156

• Stop pg_upgrade from creating analyze_new_cluster script Features

  Stop pg_upgrade from creating analyze_new_cluster script (Magnus Hagander) §

  Instead, give comparable vacuumdb instructions.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/157

• Remove support for the postmaster -o option Features

  Remove support for the postmaster -o option (Magnus Hagander) §

  This option was unnecessary since all passed options could already be specified directly.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/158

• Rename "Default Roles" to "Predefined Roles" Features

  Rename "Default Roles" to "Predefined Roles" (Bruce Momjian, Stephen Frost) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/159

• Add documentation for the factorial() function Features

  Add documentation for the factorial() function (Peter Eisentraut) §

  With the removal of the ! operator in this release, factorial() is the only built-in way to compute a factorial.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/160

• Add configure option --with-ssl={openssl} to allow future choice of the SSL library to use Features

  Add configure option --with-ssl={openssl} to allow future choice of the SSL library to use (Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier) §

  The spelling --with-openssl is kept for compatibility.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/161

• Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets Features

  Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets (Peter Eisentraut) §

  This is currently supported on Linux and Windows.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/162

• Allow Windows to properly handle files larger than four gigabytes Features

  Allow Windows to properly handle files larger than four gigabytes (Juan José Santamaría Flecha) §

  For example this allows COPY, WAL files, and relation segment files to be larger than four gigabytes.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/163

• Add server parameter debug_discard_caches to control cache flushing for test purposes Features

  Add server parameter debug_discard_caches to control cache flushing for test purposes (Craig Ringer) § § §

  Previously this behavior could only be set at compile time. To invoke it during initdb, use the new option --discard-caches.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/164

• Various improvements in valgrind error detection ability Features

  Various improvements in valgrind error detection ability (Álvaro Herrera, Peter Geoghegan) § § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/165

• Add a test module for the regular expression package Features

  Add a test module for the regular expression package (Tom Lane) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/166

• Add support for LLVM version 12 Features

  Add support for LLVM version 12 (Andres Freund) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/167

• Change SHA1, SHA2, and MD5 hash computations to use the OpenSSL EVP API Features

  Change SHA1, SHA2, and MD5 hash computations to use the OpenSSL EVP API (Michael Paquier) § § § §

  This is more modern and supports FIPS mode.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/168

• Remove separate build-time control over the choice of random number generator Features

  Remove separate build-time control over the choice of random number generator (Daniel Gustafsson) §

  This is now always determined by the choice of SSL library.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/169

• Add direct conversion routines between EUC_TW and Big5 encodings Features

  Add direct conversion routines between EUC_TW and Big5 encodings (Heikki Linnakangas) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/170

• Add collation version support for FreeBSD Features

  Add collation version support for FreeBSD (Thomas Munro) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/171

• Add amadjustmembers to the index access method API Features

  Add amadjustmembers to the index access method API (Tom Lane) §

  This allows an index access method to provide validity checking during creation of a new operator class or family.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/172

• Provide feature-test macros in libpq-fe.h for recently-added libpq features Features

  Provide feature-test macros in libpq-fe.h for recently-added libpq features (Tom Lane, Álvaro Herrera) §

  Historically, applications have usually used compile-time checks of PG_VERSION_NUM to test whether a feature is available. But that's normally the server version, which might not be a good guide to libpq's version. libpq-fe.h now offers #define symbols denoting application-visible features added in v14; the intent is to keep adding symbols for such features in future versions.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/173

• Allow subscripting of hstore values Features

  Allow subscripting of hstore values (Tom Lane, Dmitry Dolgov) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/174

• Allow GiST/GIN pg_trgm indexes to do equality lookups Features

  Allow GiST/GIN pg_trgm indexes to do equality lookups (Julien Rouhaud) §

  This is similar to LIKE except no wildcards are honored.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/175

• Allow the cube data type to be transferred in binary mode Features

  Allow the cube data type to be transferred in binary mode (KaiGai Kohei) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/176

• Allow pgstattuple_approx() to report on TOAST tables Features

  Allow pgstattuple_approx() to report on TOAST tables (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/177

• Add contrib module pg_surgery which allows changes to row visibility Features

  Add contrib module pg_surgery which allows changes to row visibility (Ashutosh Sharma) §

  This is useful for correcting database corruption.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/178

• Add contrib module old_snapshot to report the XID/time mapping used by an active old_snapshot_threshold Features

  Add contrib module old_snapshot to report the XID/time mapping used by an active old_snapshot_threshold (Robert Haas) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/179

• Allow amcheck to also check heap pages Features

  Allow amcheck to also check heap pages (Mark Dilger) §

  Previously it only checked B-Tree index pages.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/180

• Allow pageinspect to inspect GiST indexes Features

  Allow pageinspect to inspect GiST indexes (Andrey Borodin, Heikki Linnakangas) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/181

• Change pageinspect block numbers to be bigints Features

  Change pageinspect block numbers to be bigints (Peter Eisentraut) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/182

• Mark btree_gist functions as parallel safe Features

  Mark btree_gist functions as parallel safe (Steven Winfield) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/183

• Move query hash computation from pg_stat_statements to the core server Features

  Move query hash computation from pg_stat_statements to the core server (Julien Rouhaud) §

  The new server parameter compute_query_id's default of auto will automatically enable query id computation when this extension is loaded.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/184

• Cause pg_stat_statements to track top and nested statements separately Features

  Cause pg_stat_statements to track top and nested statements separately (Julien Rohaud) §

  Previously, when tracking all statements, identical top and nested statements were tracked as a single entry; but it seems more useful to separate such usages.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/185

• Add row counts for utility commands to pg_stat_statements Features

  Add row counts for utility commands to pg_stat_statements (Fujii Masao, Katsuragi Yuta, Seino Yuki) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/186

• Add pg_stat_statements_info system view to show pg_stat_statements activity Features

  Add pg_stat_statements_info system view to show pg_stat_statements activity (Katsuragi Yuta, Yuki Seino, Naoki Nakamichi) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/187

• Allow postgres_fdw to INSERT rows in bulk Features

  Allow postgres_fdw to INSERT rows in bulk (Takayuki Tsunakawa, Tomas Vondra, Amit Langote) § §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/188

• Allow postgres_fdw to import table partitions if specified by IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA ... LIMIT TO Features

  Allow postgres_fdw to import table partitions if specified by IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA ... LIMIT TO (Matthias van de Meent) §

  By default, only the root of a partitioned table is imported.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/189

• Add postgres_fdw function postgres_fdw_get_connections() to report open foreign server connections Features

  Add postgres_fdw function postgres_fdw_get_connections() to report open foreign server connections (Bharath Rupireddy) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/190

• Allow control over whether foreign servers keep connections open after transaction completion Features

  Allow control over whether foreign servers keep connections open after transaction completion (Bharath Rupireddy) §

  This is controlled by keep_connections and defaults to on.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/191

• Allow postgres_fdw to reestablish foreign server connections if necessary Features

  Allow postgres_fdw to reestablish foreign server connections if necessary (Bharath Rupireddy) § §

  Previously foreign server restarts could cause foreign table access errors.

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/192

• Add postgres_fdw functions to discard cached connections Features

  Add postgres_fdw functions to discard cached connections (Bharath Rupireddy) §

  Original release occurrence · 14.0/changes/193

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