Database > RDS for PostgreSQL > Release Notes
Feb 11, 2025
Added Features
- Added a new DB engine version
- Added PostgreSQL versions 14.15, 17.2.
- Added a feature to upgrade DB engine version
- You can upgrade the DB Engine version from an existing version to the recently added version.
Features Updates
- Added DB engine creation limit
- A security vulnerability has been discovered in PostgreSQL version 14.6 and an upgrade to a newer version is recommended.
- DB engine creation is allowed for changing an existing DB instance to high availability or restoring with a backup.
December 10, 2024
Added Features
- Added High Availability
- Added the feature to create and modify high-availability DB instances.
- Added Database & User Synchronization
- Added the feature to view databases and user lists in sync with information within the DB engine.
- Added Maintenance Settings
- Provides the feature to periodically clean up storage to help stabilize DB instances.
- Added Backup Export
- Added the feature to select an existing backup or start a new backup and export it to user object storage.
- Added the feature to restore to a backup in object storage
- Added the feature to restore from a backup exported to object storage.
- Added API Feature
- Added the feature to control RDS for PostgreSQL features via APIs.
Feature Updates
- Changed the DB Instance > Backup tab name
- Renamed the Backup tab to Backup and Maintenance among the detail tabs of the DB instance.
- You can additionally check the maintenance settings within your DB instance.
- Changed User Permissions in Databases
- Expanded DDL user permissions from the
CREATE
schema permission to the CREATE
database permission.
- As part of the expanded permissions, changed to allow schema creation with DDL user IDs.
- Improved Database List View Feature
- Improved the feature to view a list of schemas added as DDL users in the database list.
- Improved Backup Settings
- Removed the backup retry expiration time entry and improved to retry backups within the backup window time range.
- Changed Feature to Free up Capacity
- Improved the selection of WAL log files from directly selecting them to a backup time base that allows point-in-time restores.
- Changed the
shared_buffers
parameter
- Limit the parameter to a maximum of 50% of the DB instance RAM size, as using an excessively large value can cause problems running the DB engine.
October 15, 2024
Added Features
- Added auto backup settings
- Added the feature to set whether to allow auto backups.
- You can disallow auto backups under any circumstances.
- If you don't have the backups required for replication, you are limited to creating read replicas.
- Added the feature to wait for replication delay on force promotion
- Added the feature to wait for replication delays to resolve when force promoting.
- Added the feature to end replication delay queuing
- Added the feature to end the wait for replication delays when promoting/forcing a promotion.
- Added DB extensions
- Added pgrouting, bool, hstore, intarray, isn, lo, ltree, and more to be able to install.
Feature Updates
- Improved event subscription search
- Improved so that you can search by event source name.
- Improved the feature to enter the shared_preload_libraries parameter
- Improved the way shared_preload_libraries values are entered to a multi-select drop-down list format.
Bug fixes
- Fix default notification creation errors
- Fixed default notification creation to ignore the existence of a notification group with the same name.
- Fixed an error with the log_timezone parameter
- Fixed an issue where replication fails when the log_timezone value is applied to something other than Asia/Seoul.
- Fixed an error with the max_connections parameter
- Fixed an issue with the order of application when changing the max_connections value with read replicas added.
- Changed the parameter to be inapplicable if the value on the master is set to be greater than the read replica.
- Changed the parameter to be inapplicable if the value of the read replica is set to less than the master.
August 13, 2024
Added Features
- Added DB instance deletion protection feature
- Added connected notification groups, operating system information to DB instance detail view screen
- Added the feature to create read replicas
- Added replication latency to monitoring charts and monitoring settings.
- Added the Subscribe to Events feature
- Notifications sent when certain events occur.
Feature Updates
- Improved the access control feature
- Added the option to add default access control rules when adding users.
- Improved usability to allow drag-and-drop rule ordering.
- Improved to see which parameter items actually change when applying parameter group changes
- Improved the service activation screen
- Modified to auto-refresh on service activation.
- Improved the parameter group detail Screen
- Added the TIMEZONE type and improved the dropdown to search for and enter it.
- Improved the feature to select units with a dropdown when editing parameters with units.
June 11, 2024
Release of a New Service
- Relational Database Service (RDS) is a service that provides relational databases in cloud environments.
- You can use relational databases without difficult settings.
- PostgreSQL 14.6 version is provided.