We continue to follow the news in the world of PostgreSQL. The PostgreSQL 16 Release Candidate 1 was rolled out on August 31. If all is well, PostgreSQL 16 will officially release on September 14. What has changed in the upcoming release after the April code freeze? What’s getting into PostgreSQL 17 after the first commitfest? Read our latest review to find out! PostgreSQL 16 For reference, here are our previous reviews of PostgreSQL 16 commitfests: 2022-07 , 2022-09 , 2022-11 , 2023-01 ,...| postgrespro.com
The end of the March Commitfest concludes the acceptance of patches for PostgreSQL 16. Let’s take a look at some exciting new updates it introduced. I hope that this review together with the previous articles in the series ( 2022-07 , 2022-09 , 2022-11 , 2023-01 ) will give you a coherent idea of the new features of PostgreSQL 16. As usual, the March Commitfest introduces a ton of new changes. I’ve split them into several sections for convenience. Monitoring pg_stat_io: input/output stati...| postgrespro.com
We continue to follow the news of the PostgreSQL 16 release, and today, the results of the fourth CommitFest are on the table. Let’s have a look. If you missed the previous CommitFests, check out our reviews for 2022-07 , 2022-09 and 2022-11 . Here are the patches I want to talk about this time: New function: random_normal Input formats for integer literals Goodbye, postmaster Parallel execution for string_agg and array_agg New parameter: enable_presorted_aggregate Planner support function ...| postgrespro.com
We continue to follow the news of the upcoming PostgreSQL 16. The third CommitFest concluded in early December. Let's look at the results. If you missed the previous CommitFests, check out our reviews: 2022-07 , 2022-09 . Here are the patches I want to talk about: meson: a new source code build system Documentation: a new chapter on transaction processing psql: \d+ indicates foreign partitions in a partitioned table psql: extended query protocol support Predicate locks on materialized views T...| postgrespro.com