A TRIBUTE TO POSTGRESQL 10

The last release of PostgreSQL 10 took place on Nov 10, 2022. While there are many articles on the new and exciting features in PostgreSQL, I thought this would be a good time to reflect on the impact of PostgreSQL 10.

BEGIN ATOMIC: A BETTER WAY TO CREATE FUNCTIONS IN POSTGRESQL 14

Around this time of year, I am reading through the upcoming PostgreSQL release notes (hello PostgreSQL 15), reading mailing lists, and talking to PostgreSQL users to understand what are the impactful features. Many of these features will be highlighted in the feature matrix and release announcement (hello PostgreSQL 14!).

NOTES ON UPDATING TO POSTGRESQL 14.3, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, AND 10.21

On May 12, 2022, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group released its regular quarterly update for all of its supported versions (10-14) containing bug fixes and a security fix for CVE-2022-1552. Per its versioning policy, the PostgreSQL community advises that users run the “latest available minor release available for a major version.” This is generally the correct approach: update releases make each major release more stable, and the community makes a concerted effort to avoid introducing breaking changes. You should always test each update release before releasing it into your production environment.

"READ-ONLY" MODE FOR POSTGRESQL

Typically when discussing having “read-only” connections to a PostgreSQL database, it is in the context of connecting to a replica.