This article was originally published on August 26, 2019
Technical Update
EDB Postgres Advanced Server (Database Server 9.6.15.22)
WHAT’S NEW
This update is notifying you of a new software release EDB Postgres™ Advanced Server 9.6.15.22. EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.6 is built on the open source PostgreSQL 9.6, which introduces an impressive number of improvements that enable databases to scale up and scale out in more efficient ways. PostgreSQL 9.6 also includes new monitoring capabilities that offer more visibility into the internal operations of the system such as vacuum progress monitoring and exposure of low level wait states in pg_stat_statements.
Highlights of 9.6.15.22 release include:
PLEASE NOTE
For Windows:
This announcement is for EDB customers who are using, or are interested in, EDB Postgres Advanced Server and have a database subscription purchased for: HOW TO GET THE SOFTWARE
This update is available via StackBuilder Plus.
This update is also available as an RPM package that can be downloaded from the yum.enterprisedb.com repository. To setup your credentials and gain access to the yum repository, please submit a request: https://www.enterprisedb.com/repository-access-request.
Please review the Installation Guide for more details:
If you experience any problems installing the new software please contact Technical Support at:
Email: support@enterprisedb.com
Phone: US: +1-732-331-1320 or 1-800-235-5891
UK: +44-2033719820
Brazil: +55-2139581371
India: +91-20-66449612
EDB Postgres Advanced Server (Database Server 9.6.15.22)
WHAT’S NEW
This update is notifying you of a new software release EDB Postgres™ Advanced Server 9.6.15.22. EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.6 is built on the open source PostgreSQL 9.6, which introduces an impressive number of improvements that enable databases to scale up and scale out in more efficient ways. PostgreSQL 9.6 also includes new monitoring capabilities that offer more visibility into the internal operations of the system such as vacuum progress monitoring and exposure of low level wait states in pg_stat_statements.
Highlights of 9.6.15.22 release include:
- Merge with community release 9.6.15
- More information about this and other fixes in community PostgreSQL can be found https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1960/ and https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/release-9-6-15.html
- Merge OpenSSL 1.1.1 library to address the items identified in Security Advisory 28-May-2019 - https://www.openssl.org/news/cl111.txt
- RM44018 - Fix pg_dump to not dump pldbgapi extensions. [#886983]
- RM43983 - Convert RAW to VARCHAR before assigning to VARCHAR variable. [#865427]
- RM44047 - Correct CALL statement's function expression handling in ecpg.
- RM44025 - Add support for edb_filter_log.
- RM43962 - dblink_oci: Don't allow password and obfuscated_password options together.
- RM43873 - Fix to_char() for formats like spell mode, "IWW", "SPTH", "DDD", "D (day of the week)" etc. to make to_char() more redwood and PG compatible.
PLEASE NOTE
For Windows:
- If you have the system temp pointing to the non-default location then you must make sure it is secure and matches the permissions with "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp"
- If you have PostGIS installed and choose to upgrade to EPAS 9.6.15.22 then you must also upgrade PostGIS.
This announcement is for EDB customers who are using, or are interested in, EDB Postgres Advanced Server and have a database subscription purchased for: HOW TO GET THE SOFTWARE
This update is available via StackBuilder Plus.
This update is also available as an RPM package that can be downloaded from the yum.enterprisedb.com repository. To setup your credentials and gain access to the yum repository, please submit a request: https://www.enterprisedb.com/repository-access-request.
Please review the Installation Guide for more details:
- HTML: https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/9.6/instguide/toc.html
- PDF: https://get.enterprisedb.com/docs/EDB_Postgres_Advanced_Server_Installation_Guide_v9.6.pdf
If you experience any problems installing the new software please contact Technical Support at:
Email: support@enterprisedb.com
Phone: US: +1-732-331-1320 or 1-800-235-5891
UK: +44-2033719820
Brazil: +55-2139581371
India: +91-20-66449612