--- title: "The draft release notes for Postgres 15" publication: "Postgres Weekly" issue: 455 published_at: "2022-05-18" canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/455" --- Plus Google's take on Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL? | #​455 — May 18, 2022 [Web Version](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/455) Postgres Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/ycm7mm2ynvs9dxxbuwh7.jpg)](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-alloydb-for-postgresql) [Google Cloud Introduces _AlloyDB for PostgreSQL_](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-alloydb-for-postgresql) — It’s not a perfect comparison but think about Amazon Aurora except from Google who boast this is _“PostgreSQL in a way that only Google can deliver it.”_ AlloyDB is a managed Postgres-_compatible_ service (though it does seem like elements of Postgres live under the hood) which promises seamless scaling, for a price. There’s a [more technical explanation here](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydb-for-postgresql-intelligent-scalable-storage). Google Cloud [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bd4be8c9.png)](https://www.polyscale.ai/platform/) [Scale Postgres Globally in Minutes, Without Writing Code](https://www.polyscale.ai/platform/) — PolyScale.ai is a plug-and-play serverless edge cache for Postgres. Scale globally in minutes without writing code or deploying infrastructure. Enable data-driven, serverless functions with ease. PolyScale.ai sponsor [The Postgres 15 Draft Release Notes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-15.html) — Postgres 15 isn’t due for several months yet (though the first beta will be out within weeks) but Bruce Momjian has completed the first draft of PG 15’s release notes and lays out the main tweaks and improvements. PostgreSQL Documentation **Quick bits:** - ⚠️ [PostgreSQL 14.3, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-143-137-1211-1116-and-1021-released-2449/) have all been released to close a security vulnerability as well as fix around 50 bugs. Of note: _"If you have any GiST indexes on columns using the ltree data type, you will need to reindex them after upgrading."_ - GitHub's Jaana Dogan notes that [Google Cloud is 'betting big on Postgres.'](https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1524487451347087360) - 🎂 Npgsql is a .NET data provider for Postgres and it's [celebrating its 20th birthday today.](http://fxjr.blogspot.com/2022/05/happy-20th-anniversary-npgsql.html) Congratulations to them. [CloudNativePG: A New Kubernetes Operator for Postgres](https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/introducing-cloudnativepg-new-open-source-kubernetes-operator-postgres) — EDB has released an Apache 2.0 licensed Kubernetes operator that can handle the full lifecycle of a Postgres cluster. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg). Gabriele Bartolini (EDB) [Postgres Index Scans Explained](https://postgrespro.com/blog/pgsql/5969493) — Egor is back with a characteristically deep dive on index scans which should help clear things up if you’ve seen “Bitmap Index Scan” or “Parallel Index Only Scan” in your query plans and wondered what they really mean. Egor Rogov [Observability Powered by SQL: Take OpenTelemetry Traces into Postgres](https://www.timescale.com/blog/observability-powered-by-sql-understand-your-systems-like-never-before-with-opentelemetry-traces-and-postgresql/) — OpenTelemetry is a standard for instrumentation (traces, metrics, logs, etc.) and the Timescale folks have announced [Promscale](https://www.timescale.com/promscale), a backend for Promethius and OpenTelemetry built on Postgres and TimescaleDB for analyzing such data with SQL. Ramon Guiu (Timescale) [Build Any Internal Tool on Postgres in Minutes. Add Data from Other Sources or APIs with a Point and Click Interface](https://retool.com/?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cooperpress) Retool — 10x faster internal tools sponsor [An Experience with Exporting Postgres RDS Partitioned Tables to S3](https://geopet85.github.io/2022/05/15/rds-partitioned-tables-export.html) — We all love writing scripts to move data around, right?.. right? Well, it’s not always fun or easy, as we see here, and they ultimate had to put this approach on ice. George Petropoulos [Adventures in Collating Text in Linux, Docker and Postgres](https://ptc-it.de/collate-docker-postgres-bug/) — A text sorting error popped up in an app the author was working on and it required digging around much more in the collation settings than you’d expect. Paul Cochrane **Got a new email?** You can [change your address here](https://postgresweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*). --- **Bored of us?** [Click here to stop getting Postgres Weekly](https://postgresweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*). --- **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. We can't include everything but we'll look at anything you send. Thanks! --- Published by Cooper Press Ltd. Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom Postgres, PostgreSQL and the Slonik Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada. 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