Revisions 280, 281

A new revision of Charmed PostgreSQL for Kubernetes has been published in the 14/stable channel.

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What’s changed

This section outlines the most important highlights, features and bug fixes in this release.

• PostgreSQL has been upgraded from v.14.10 to v.14.11 ( #432).

  • Check the official PostgreSQL release notes

• Added support for ARM64 architecture ( #408)

• Added support for cross-regional asynchronous replication ( #447) (DPE-2897).

  • This feature focuses on disaster recovery by distributing data across different servers. Check our new how-to guides for a walkthrough of the cross-model setup, promotion, switchover, and other details.

• Added support for tracing with Tempo K8s ( #497)

  • See: How to enable tracing

• Released new Charmed Sysbench operator for easy performance testing.

Features

• Added timescaledb plugin/extension ( #488)

  • See the Configuration tab for all parameters.

• Added incremental and differential backup support ( #487)( #476)(DPE-4464)

  • Check the guide: How to create and list backups

• Added support for disabling the operator (DPE-2470)

• Added configuration option for backup retention time ( #477)(DPE-4401)

  • See the Configuration tab for all parameters

• Added message to inform users about missing --trust flag ( #440)(DPE-3885)

• Added experimental_max_connections config option ( #500)

• Introduced a block on legacy roles request (modern interface only) ( #391)(DPE-3099)

Bug fixes

• Fixed large objects ownership ( #390)(DPE-3551)

• Fixed shared buffers validation ( #396)(DPE-3594)

• Fixed handling S3 relation in primary non-leader unit ( #375)(DPE-3349)

• Stabilized SST and network cut tests ( #385)(DPE-3473)

• Fixed pod reconciliation: re-render config/service on pod recreation ( #461)(DPE-2671)

• Addressed main instability sources on backups integration tests ( #496)(DPE-4427)

• Fixed scale up with S3 and TLS relations in ( #489)(DPE-4456)

Canonical Data issues are now public on both Jira and GitHub.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/canonical/postgresql-k8s-operator/compare/rev193…rev280

Packaging

This charm is based on the charmed-postgresql snap (pinned revision 113). It packages:

• postgresql v.14.11

  • 14.11-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

• pgbouncer v.1.21

  • 1.21.0-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~ppa1

• patroni v.3.1.2

  • 3.1.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~ppa2

• pgBackRest v.2.48

  • 2.48-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~ppa1

• prometheus-postgres-exporter v.0.12.1

Contact us

Charmed PostgreSQL K8s is an open source project that warmly welcomes community contributions, suggestions, fixes, and constructive feedback.

• Raise software issues or feature requests on GitHub

• Report security issues through Launchpad

• Contact the Canonical Data Platform team through our Matrix channel.