Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.9 (2025-05-29)¶
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 16.9.
Release Highlights¶
Updated Major upgrade topic in documentation¶
The Upgrading Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL from 15 to 16 guide has been updated with revised steps for the On Debian and Ubuntu using apt section, improving clarity and reliability of the upgrade process.
Supplied third-party extensions¶
Review each extension’s release notes for What’s new, improvements, or bug fixes. The following is the list of extensions available in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL.
The following is the list of extensions available in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL.
| Extension | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| etcd | 3.5.21 | A distributed, reliable key-value store for setting up high available Patroni clusters |
| HAProxy | 2.8.15 | a high-availability and load-balancing solution |
| Patroni | 4.0.5 | a HA (High Availability) solution for PostgreSQL |
| PgAudit | 16.0 | provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL |
| pgAudit set_user | 4.1.0 | 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 | 2.55.0 | a backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL |
| pgBadger | 13.1 | a fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer. |
| PgBouncer | 1.24.1 | a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL |
| pg_gather | v30 | an SQL script for running the diagnostics of the health of PostgreSQL cluster |
| pgpool2 | 4.6.0 | a middleware between PostgreSQL server and client for high availability, connection pooling, and load balancing. |
| pg_repack | 1.5.2 | rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects |
| pgvector | v0.8.0 | A vector similarity search for PostgreSQL |
| PostGIS | 3.3.8 | a spatial extension for PostgreSQL. |
| PostgreSQL Commons | 277 | 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 |
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and compatible derivatives, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL also includes the supplemental python3-etcd 0.4.5 packages, which are 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.”