2023

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This topic describes the release notes for the minor versions, console, Ganos, and API of .

Note
  • You can run the following statement to view the minor version number of your cluster:

    SHOW polardb_version;
  • Starting February 26, 2025 (UTC+8), the format for minor version numbers will change to a six-digit format. For details about this change and the mapping from old to new version numbers, see PolarDB minor version number format update.

December 2023

Minor version V1.1.36

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Feature

Description

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New Feature

high-privilege accounts require the REPLICATION privilege.

now allows privileged users to grant the REPLICATION permission to other users.

N/A

October 2023

Minor version V1.1.35

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

ePQ support for parallel writes and queries on OSS foreign tables

The elastic parallel query (ePQ) feature now supports parallel writes to and queries on OSS foreign tables, improving performance for archiving and querying cold data.

ePQ support for parallel write and query operations on OSS foreign tables

August 2023

Minor version V1.1.34

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Feature

Description

References

New Feature

PolarDB for PostgreSQL channels

PolarDB for PostgreSQL channels support multiple extensions such as dblink and fdw. You can create a channel and use it to connect to the external endpoint of a cluster.

DBLink and foreign tables

June 2023

Ganos V5.6

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Feature

Description

References

New Feature

ST_AsMVT3D and ST_AsMVTGeom3D functions

Ganos now includes the ST_AsMVT3D and ST_AsMVTGeom3D functions, which support 3D vector slices of Geometry3D data.

ST_AsMVT3D, ST_AsMVTGeom3D

ST_AsTableFormat function

The new ST_AsTableFormat function returns the value type that the ST_AsTable function generates for a trajectory.

ST_AsTableFormat

ST_ImportGLTF and ST_ImportGLB functions

Ganos now supports importing OSS-based glTF and glb files as SFMesh objects.

ST_ImportGLTF, ST_ImportGLB

Fixed Issue

ST_Intersection function

The ST_Intersection function now correctly determines the intersection of two overlapping trajectory segments.

ST_intersection

May 2023

Minor version V1.1.32

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

Fine-grained permission management for polar_superuser

adopts a role-based access control model to manage permissions for standard users. This system defines types of database operations, implements a robust access control model, and enhances cloud database security.

Account permissions

Partitioned table scan

The partitioned table scan feature improves query performance on partitioned tables with a large number of partitions.

N/A

Space limit for flashback logs

You can now use the polar_flashback_log_size_limit parameter to limit the storage space that flashback logs consume.

Table flashback

Ganos V5.5

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

S​T_MosaicFrom function

The S​T_MosaicFrom function now supports parallel operations.

S​T_MosaicFrom

S​T_MosaicFrom function

The S​T_MosaicFrom function now supports mosaicking images with different resolutions or projections.

S​T_MosaicFrom

Fixed Issue

ST_makeTrajectory function

The ST_makeTrajectory function no longer crashes when creating a two-point trajectory using only a start and end time.

ST_makeTrajectory

April 2023

Minor version V1.1.31

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

GPC enabled by default

The Global Plan Cache (GPC) feature is enabled by default on clusters.

Global Plan Cache (GPC)

Replay wait parameter can be set per role

You can now enable the polar_px_enable_replay_wait parameter for a specific database role.

Use elastic parallel queries for analytical queries

Ganos V5.4

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

ST_ClusterDBSCAN function

Performs DBSCAN clustering based on latitude and longitude coordinates.

ST_ClusterDBSCAN

ST_CurveRecognize function

Recognizes curves and turning radii in a trajectory.

ST_CurveRecognize

ST_AsGrid function

Performs 2D degenerated grid calculations.

ST_AsGrid

pgRouting extension

The pgRouting extension has been upgraded to version 3.4.2.

pgRouting

February 2023

Minor version V1.1.30

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

pgtap extension

pgtap is a unit testing framework written in PL/pgSQL and PL/SQL, and a TAP testing framework for that includes a comprehensive set of TAP assertion functions and can integrate with other TAP testing frameworks.

pgtap (unit testing)

Ganos V5.3

Category

Feature

Description

References

New Feature

ST_Angle function

Outputs the angle of each turn in a trajectory as an array.

ST_Angle

ST_CurvatureRadius function

Outputs the turning radius of each turn in a trajectory as an array.

ST_CurvatureRadius

PostGIS extension

The PostGIS extension has been upgraded to version 3.3.2.

PostGIS

Fixed Issue

The ST_AsTable function no longer crashes when the x,y,t dimension is NULL.