Version Overview

[Release Date: Jan 13, 2025]

IvorySQL 4.2, based on PostgreSQL 17.2 and includes a variety of bug fixes. For a comprehensive list of updates, please visit our documentation site.

Enhancements

• PostgreSQL 17.1 Enhancements

1. Ensure cached plans are marked as dependent on the calling role when RLS applies to a non-top-level table reference.
2. Make libpq discard error messages received during SSL or GSS protocol negotiation.
3. Fix unintended interactions between SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE.
4. Prevent trusted PL/Perl code from changing environment variables.
5. Fix updates of catalog state for foreign-key constraints when attaching or detaching table partitions.
   For further details, visit PostgreSQL’s release notes.

• PostgreSQL 17.2 Enhancements

1. Repair ABI break for extensions that work with struct ResultRelInfo.
2. Restore functionality of ALTER {ROLE|DATABASE} SET role.
3. Fix cases where a logical replication slot's restart_lsn could go backwards.
4. Avoid deleting still-needed WAL files during pg_rewind.
5. Fix race conditions associated with dropping shared statistics entries.
   For further details, visit PostgreSQL’s release notes.

Fixed Issues

• Fix issue for pg_upgrade: Issue #721
• Provide Rocky9 installation package: Issue #724
• EN grammatical fixes in ivorysql_docs: Issue #95

Source Code

IvorySQL's development is maintained across two main repositories:

• IvorySQL database source code: https://github.com/IvorySQL/IvorySQL
• IvorySQL official website: https://github.com/IvorySQL/Ivory-www

Contributors

The following individuals (in alphabetical order) have contributed to this release as patch authors, committers, reviewers, testers, or reporters of issues.

• Cary Huang
• Denis Lussier
• Fawei Zhao
• Grant Zhou
• Hope Gao
• Lily Wang
• Shawn Yan
• Shiji Niu
• Shoubo Wang
• Shuntian Jiao
• Xiangyu Liang
• Xinjie Lv
• Zhibin Wang

Complete Changelog