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PolarDB:Release notes for PolarDB for PostgreSQL 14

Last Updated:Nov 11, 2025

This topic describes the feature updates in 2024 for PolarDB for PostgreSQL, including updates to minor engine versions, the console, the spatio-temporal database, and extensions.

Note
  • You can execute the following statement to view the minor engine version of a PolarDB for PostgreSQL cluster:

    SHOW polardb_version;
  • The minor engine version number format for PolarDB for PostgreSQL will be updated to a six-digit format on February 26, 2025. For more information, see Change details.

14.13.27.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New features

Supports reading Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) logs from the WAL buffer for physical and logical replication.

Read WAL logs from the WAL buffer for physical and logical replication

December 2024

Supports transforming OR clauses into UNION ALL clauses for query optimization.

OR to UNION ALL transformation

December 2024

Performance optimizations

Enables the adaptive function whitelist by default to improve load balancing for cluster endpoints.

None

December 2024

Optimizes performance in some common scenarios.

None

December 2024

Bug fixes

Fixes an issue where Global Index Kill processed incorrect index tuples, which caused global index errors in extreme cases.

December 2024

Fixes a null pointer bug in pg_hint_plan when processing virtual indexes.

December 2024

14.13.26.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New feature

Adds the Time Series Database (TSDB) extension to support advanced time-series computing features.

Time Series Database

November 2024

Performance optimization

Optimizes performance in some common scenarios.

None

November 2024

Bug fixes

Fixes incompatibility issues with some character sets.

November 2024

Fixes a memory leak in the bitmap operator.

November 2024

Fixes some stability issues.

November 2024

14.13.25.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New features

Supports Segmented Least Recently Used (SLRU) shard management.

None

September 2024

Supports the VACUUM FULL option for index creation and fallocate no_hide_stale operations to ensure data integrity.

None

September 2024

Adds monitoring for the FullPage Snapshot feature.

None

September 2024

Supports control over the default pushdown capability for Common Table Expressions (CTEs).

None

September 2024

Adds the temporal_tables extension to support system-period temporal tables.

temporal_tables (temporal tables)

September 2024

Supports setting the session isolation level using the ALTER SESSION SET ISOLATION_LEVEL statement.

None

September 2024

Upgrades the spatio-temporal database (GanosBase) to version 6.9.

Release notes for the spatio-temporal database

September 2024

Performance optimization

Adjusts the default private cache size for GCC and GRC processes. This optimizes performance for transactions that involve many Data Definition Language (DDL) operations.

Global metadata cache

September 2024

Bug fixes

Fixes an issue where streaming replication did not promptly wake up the startup process after transferring xlog meta.

September 2024

Fixes an issue where a stored procedure Cache failure caused a Cache lookup failed error.

September 2024

Fixes an issue where indexes not in the Public schema could not be archived to OSS.

September 2024

Fixes an issue where the cold data cache did not roll back correctly when a query was canceled.

September 2024

Fixes an issue where the compression ratio was calculated incorrectly in shared storage mode.

September 2024

Fixes an issue where pg_cron failed because unix_socket_directories was set to a value enclosed in quotation marks.

September 2024

Fixes an issue where the Logindex saver process failed to start when Logindex was disabled.

September 2024

Fixed an issue with GPC memory requests.

September 2024

14.12.24.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New features

PolarDB for PostgreSQL supports multitenancy resource control.

Multitenancy

August 2024

Upgrades the spatio-temporal database (GanosBase) to version 6.8.

Release notes for the spatio-temporal database

August 2024

Displays specific column names in error messages for data type mismatches.

None

August 2024

Adds a feature to ignore the replay latency of read-only nodes during dirty page flushing on the primary node.

None

August 2024

Performance optimizations

Optimizes index creation, increasing the speed by approximately 3 times.

None

August 2024

Optimizes temporary tables of the ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS type.

None

August 2024

Increases the batch pre-read limit for WAL in logical replication.

Parallel WAL replay

August 2024

Optimizes the execution efficiency of STABLE functions.

None

August 2024

Optimizes the adaptive function whitelist.

None

August 2024

Bug fixes

Fixes a vulnerability related to reading and writing local files in the spatio-temporal database (GanosBase).

August 2024

Fixes an issue with a residual errno value in the LOCAL CACHE.

August 2024

Fixes an error with serial type fields in ALTER FOREIGN TABLE statements when DDL logical replication is enabled.

August 2024

Fixes an issue where pg_dump failed to export polar_advisor objects.

August 2024

Fixes a severe lock contention issue that occurred when the dirty page flushing process identified future pages.

August 2024

Fixes an assert issue in async lock.

August 2024

14.12.23.1

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New feature

PolarDB for PostgreSQL supports archiving timeline partitions to OSS.

Automatically archive partitioned tables to cold storage by timeline

August 2024

Performance optimization

PolarDB for PostgreSQL improves the replay speed of the Relation Size Cache (RSC) on replica nodes.

Table size cache

August 2024

Bug fix

Fixes an issue where the pldebugger extension did not allow a polar_superuser to debug functions owned by other users.

August 2024

14.11.22.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

Bug fix

Fixes an error that occurred when executing an INSERT INTO SELECT statement on a table with a columnstore index.

July 2024

14.10.21.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New feature

PolarDB for PostgreSQL supports Tiered Storage of Hot and Cold Data.

Tiered Storage of Hot and Cold Data

June 2024

14.10.20.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New features

Upgrades the PolarDB for PostgreSQL pgvector extension to include methods for improving recall rate and performance.

pgvector (vector search)

May 2024

Bug fixes

Improves the stability of the trajectory module in GanosBase.

May 2024

Fixes an issue where a reference count overflow in the shared memory of the Global Plan Cache (GPC) caused connection errors.

May 2024

14.10.19.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New feature

PolarDB for PostgreSQL supports automatic index recommendation, providing basic recommendation capabilities.

Automatic index recommendation

April 2024

Bug fixes

Fixes a bug in polar_dump when handling variable-length data types.

April 2024

Fixes a bug in the postgres_fdw extension when referencing dblinks.

April 2024

14.10.18.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New features

PolarDB for PostgreSQL adds the imgsmlr extension. This extension extracts feature values from images, such as PNG and GIF files, and retrieves similar images using an index.

imgsmlr (similar images)

March 2024

PolarDB for PostgreSQL adds the pg_profile extension. This extension collects statistics on resource-intensive activities in a database for periodic collection and monitoring.

pg_profile (resource monitoring)

March 2024

PolarDB for PostgreSQL adds the pg_similarity extension to support similarity queries.

pg_similarity (similarity distance calculation)

March 2024

PolarDB for PostgreSQL adds the prefix extension to support string prefix matching.

prefix (prefix matching)

March 2024

Bug fix

Fixes issues such as errors when using PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL together, and the failure to create the ganos_utility extension.

March 2024

14.10.17.0

Minor Engine Version

Category

Description

References

Release date

New feature

PolarDB for PostgreSQL supports using any column as a primary key or foreign key reference in a partitioned table.

Use any column in a partitioned table as the primary key

February 2024

Bug fixes

Fixes bugs and performance degradation issues related to global indexes on partitioned tables.

February 2024

Fixes an error that occurred when calling a constructor function for a type body with a specified schema.

February 2024