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
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