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title: "#220: Plans for Partitioning in Postgres 11"
publication: "Postgres Weekly"
issue: 220
published_at: "2017-08-16"
canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/220"
---

Postgres Weekly 220   . 

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[Postgres Weekly](http://postgresweekly.com) Issue 220 — August 16, 2017     

[PostgreSQL 2017-08-10 Security Update Release](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Updates to 9.2-9.6 for three vulnerabilities, explained in depth here. There’s also an end-of-life warning for Postgres 9.2 for which support will end next month. postgresql.​org#news [Plans for Partitioning in v11](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2017/08/plans-for-partitioning-in-v11.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Postgres 10 has some key partitioning improvements, but there are already plans afoot for more in the eventual Postgres 11. Robert Haas [PostgreSQL 10 Beta 3 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1771/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Postgres 10 is almost here and the latest beta contains numerous fixes to beta 2. postgresql.​org#news [Barman: Backup Strategy and Disaster Recovery Manager from 2ndQuadrant](https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/barman/)Do you have a recovery plan in place for when disaster strikes? More importantly, when's the last time you tested it? Don't risk severe data loss or down-time. Be proactive: Discover how Barman & 2ndQuadrant can help secure your critical databases. 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Products#sponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0d973503.png)](https://2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/barman/) [Postgresql.org's FTP Server Shut Down](https://blog.hagander.net/ftppostgresqlorg-is-dead-long-live-ftppostgresqlorg-238/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Everything’s still available over HTTPS, but things have (mostly) moved on from FTP these days. Magnus Hagander#news [PGConf Org: Postgres South Africa Call for Papers Open](http://blog.pgconf.us/2017/08/pgconf-org-postgres-south-africa-cfp.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Join the fantastic and growing Postgres community in Cape Town, South Africa for a single day event on October 3rd, 2017. Joshua Drake#news [Experimenting with Scaling and Full Parallelism in Postgres](http://www.cybertec.at/experimenting-scaling-full-parallelism-postgresql/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Postgres has gained a lot of improvements in parallelism for query performance in recent releases. Here’s a look into what it’s able to scale to. Hans-Juergen Schoenig [Connecting to Postgres RDS Instances From Kubernetes with SSL](https://paulbellamy.com/2017/07/connecting-to-postgres-rds-instances-from-ecs-with-ssl?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email) Paul Bellamy [TimescaleDB vs. Postgres for Time-Series Storage](https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)The first in a series of performance benchmarks comparing TimescaleDB to other databases for storing and analyzing time-series data. Rob Kiefer#opinion [Boost your PostgreSQL database](https://selectstar.io/blog/postgresql-performance-indexes/)See how SelectStar tracks indexes in your environment to maximize performance. Start your free trial today. SelectStar#sponsored [cstore_fdw: Columnar Store for Postgres](https://pgxn.org/dist/cstore_fdw/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Cstore is the columnar extension for Postgres from [Citus](https://www.citusdata.com/). This latest update adds support for Postgres 10 and includes a number of other fixes. pgxn.​org#tools [Timescale: An Open-Source Time-Series SQL Database](http://www.timescale.com/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Optimized for fast ingest, complex queries, and scalability, Timescale is based around PostgreSQL. Timescale#tools    

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