Timescaledb: 2.8.0 Release

This release adds major new features since the 2.7.2 release. We deem it moderate priority for upgrading.

This release includes these noteworthy features:

• time_bucket now supports bucketing by month, year and timezone
• Improve performance of bulk SELECT and COPY for distributed hypertables
• 1 step CAgg policy management
• Migrate Continuous Aggregates to the new format

Features * #4188 Use COPY protocol in row-by-row fetcher * #4307 Mark partialize_agg as parallel safe * #4380 Enable chunk exclusion for space dimensions in UPDATE/DELETE * #4384 Add schedule_interval to policies * #4390 Faster lookup of chunks by point * #4393 Support intervals with day component when constifying now() * #4397 Support intervals with month component when constifying now() * #4405 Support ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT for hypertables * #4412 Add telemetry about replication * #4415 Drop remote data when detaching data node * #4416 Handle TRUNCATE TABLE on chunks * #4425 Add parameter check_config to alter_job * #4430 Create index on Continuous Aggregates * #4439 Allow ORDER BY on continuous aggregates * #4443 Add stateful partition mappings * #4484 Use non-blocking data node connections for COPY * #4495 Support add_dimension() with existing data * #4502 Add chunks to baserel cache on chunk exclusion * #4545 Add hypertable distributed argument and defaults * #4552 Migrate Continuous Aggregates to the new format * #4556 Add runtime exclusion for hypertables * #4561 Change get_git_commit to return full commit hash * #4563 1 step CAgg policy management * #4641 Allow bucketing by month, year, century in time_bucket and time_bucket_gapfill * #4642 Add timezone support to time_bucket

Bugfixes * #4359 Create composite index on segmentby columns * #4374 Remove constified now() constraints from plan * #4416 Handle TRUNCATE TABLE on chunks * #4478 Synchronize chunk cache sizes * #4486 Adding boolean column with default value doesn't work on compressed table * #4512 Fix unaligned pointer access * #4519 Throw better error message on incompatible row fetcher settings * #4549 Fix dump_meta_data for windows * #4553 Fix timescaledb_post_restore GUC handling * #4573 Load TSL library on compressed_data_out call * #4575 Fix use of get_partition_hash and get_partition_for_key inside an IMMUTABLE function * #4577 Fix segfaults in compression code with corrupt data * #4580 Handle default privileges on CAggs properly * #4582 Fix assertion in GRANT .. ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA * #4583 Fix partitioning functions * #4589 Fix rename for distributed hypertable * #4601 Reset compression sequence when group resets * #4611 Fix a potential OOM when loading large data sets into a hypertable * #4624 Fix heap buffer overflow * #4627 Fix telemetry initialization * #4631 Ensure TSL library is loaded on database upgrades * #4646 Fix time_bucket_ng origin handling * #4647 Fix the error "SubPlan found with no parent plan" that occurred if using joins in RETURNING clause.

Thanks * @AlmiS for reporting error on get_partition_hash executed inside an IMMUTABLE function * @Creatation for reporting an issue with renaming hypertables * @janko for reporting an issue when adding bool column with default value to compressed hypertable * @jayadevanm for reporting error of TRUNCATE TABLE on compressed chunk * @michaelkitson for reporting permission errors using default privileges on Continuous Aggregates * @mwahlhuetter for reporting error in joins in RETURNING clause * @ninjaltd and @mrksngl for reporting a potential OOM when loading large data sets into a hypertable * @PBudmark for reporting an issue with dump_meta_data.sql on Windows * @ssmoss for reporting an issue with time_bucket_ng origin handling