PostgreSQL 17 New Features Now Available In Cloud SQL
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL 17 offers notable improvements in tooling, observability, performance, security, and developer experience
PostgreSQL 17, enables you to conduct maintenance operations on database objects, including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX, and CLUSTER, even if you are not the object’s owner
Additionally, PostgreSQL 17 adds a predefined role called pg_maintain that enables you to do maintenance actions on all relations without explicitly having MAINTAIN privileges on those objects
A potent addition to PostgreSQL 17, the MERGE command enables programmers to carry out conditional updates, inserts, or deletions in a single SQL expression
PostgreSQL 17 provides TidStore, a new and more effective data structure. This greatly lowers the amount of memory used by replacing the earlier array-based method
Multiple consecutive blocks can now be read from disk into shared buffers with a single system call with an improvement made to the ReadBuffer API in PostgreSQL 17
PostgreSQL 17 enhances the COPY command. During data import processes, these parameters enable you to better understand skipped rows and handle problems more gently