Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.4 (2024-09-10)

Installation

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is a solution that includes PostgreSQL server and the collection of tools from PostgreSQL community. These tools are tested to work together and serve to assist you in deploying and managing PostgreSQL.

The aim of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is to address the operational issues like High-Availability, Disaster Recovery, Security, Observability, Spatial data handling, Performance and Scalability, and others that enterprises are facing.

This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 16.4.

Release Highlights

• This release of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL fixes security vulnerability CVE-2024-7348.

• Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL packages and tarballs are now also available for ARM64 architectures. Thus, users can not only run Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL in Docker containers on ARM-based workstations but also install the packages on those workstations. The ARM64 packages are available for the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and compatible derivatives
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and compatible derivatives
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
  • Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)
  • Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)
  • Debian 11
  • Debian 12

• Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL includes the enhanced telemetry feature and provides comprehensive information about how telemetry works, its components and metrics as well as updated methods how to disable telemetry. Read more in Telemetry and data collection

• Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL includes pg_stat_monitor 2.1.0 that provides the ability to disable the application name tracking for a query. This way you can optimize query execution performance.

Packaging Changes

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is no longer supported on Debian 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and compatible derivatives.

The following is the list of extensions available in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL.

Extension	Version	Description
etcd	3.5.15	A distributed, reliable key-value store for setting up high available Patroni clusters
HAProxy	2.8.10	a high-availability and load-balancing solution
Patroni	3.3.2	a HA (High Availability) solution for PostgreSQL
PgAudit	16	provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL
pgAudit set_user	4.0.1	provides an additional layer of logging and control when unprivileged users must escalate themselves to superusers or object owner roles in order to perform needed maintenance tasks.
pgBackRest	2.53	a backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL
pgBadger	12.4	a fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer.
PgBouncer	1.23.1	a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL
pg_gather	v27	an SQL script for running the diagnostics of the health of PostgreSQL cluster
pgpool2	4.5.2	a middleware between PostgreSQL server and client for high availability, connection pooling and load balancing.
pg_repack	1.5.0	rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects
pg_stat_monitor	2.1.0	collects and aggregates statistics for PostgreSQL and provides histogram information.
PostGIS	3.3.6	a spatial extension for PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL Commons	261	PostgreSQL database-cluster manager. It provides a structure under which multiple versions of PostgreSQL may be installed and/or multiple clusters maintained at one time.
wal2json	2.6	a PostgreSQL logical decoding JSON output plugin

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and compatible derivatives also includes the following packages:

• llvm 17.0.6 packages. This fixes compatibility issues with LLVM from upstream.
• supplemental python3-etcd packages, which can be used for setting up Patroni clusters.

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is also shipped with the libpq library. It contains “a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these queries.”

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