2.15.0 (2024-05-08)

This release contains the performance improvements and bug fixes introduced since
TimescaleDB v2.14.2. Best practice is to upgrade at the next available opportunity.

Highlighted features in this release

• Continuous Aggregate now supports time_bucket with origin and/or offset.
• The following improvements have been introduced for hypertable compression:
  • Recommend optimized defaults for segment by and order by when configuring compression through analysis of table configuration and statistics.
  • Added planner support to check more kinds of WHERE conditions before decompression.
    This reduces the number of rows that have to be decompressed.
  • You can now use minmax sparse indexes when you compress columns with btree indexes.
  • Vectorize filters in the WHERE clause that contain text equality operators and LIKE expressions.

Deprecation warning

• You can no longer create continuous aggregates using time_bucket_ng. This feature will be completely removed in the next release. Best practice is to migrate your current continuous aggregates to the new form,
• This is the last release supporting PostgreSQL 13.

For self-hosted TimescaleDB v2.15.0 deployments only

After you run ALTER EXTENSION, you must run this SQL script. For more details, see the following pull requests #6797.

Complete list of features

• #6382 Support for time_bucket with origin and offset in CAggs.
• #6696 Improve the defaults for compression segment_by and order_by.
• #6705 Add sparse minmax indexes for compressed columns that have uncompressed btree indexes.
• #6754 Allow DROP CONSTRAINT on compressed hypertables.
• #6767 Add metadata table _timestaledb_internal.bgw_job_stat_history for tracking job execution history.
• #6798 Prevent usage of the deprecated time_bucket_ng in the CAgg definition.
• #6810 Add telemetry for access methods.
• #6811 Remove the no longer relevant timescaledb.allow_install_without_preload GUC.
• #6837 Add migration path for CAggs using time_bucket_ng.
• #6865 Update the watermark when truncating a CAgg.

Complete list of bugfixes

• #6617 Fix error in show_chunks.
• #6621 Remove metadata when dropping chunks.
• #6677 Fix snapshot usage in CAgg invalidation scanner.
• #6698 Define meaning of 0 retries for jobs as no retries.
• #6717 Fix handling of compressed tables with primary or unique index in COPY path.
• #6726 Fix constify cagg_watermark using window function when querying a CAgg.
• #6729 Fix NULL start value handling in CAgg refresh.
• #6732 Fix CAgg migration with custom timezone / date format settings.
• #6752 Remove custom autovacuum setting from compressed chunks.
• #6770 Fix plantime chunk exclusion for OSM chunk.
• #6789 Fix deletes with subqueries and compression.
• #6796 Fix a crash involving a view on a hypertable.
• #6797 Fix foreign key constraint handling on compressed hypertables.
• #6816 Fix handling of chunks with no constraints.
• #6820 Fix a crash when the ts_hypertable_insert_blocker was called directly.
• #6849 Use non-orderby compressed metadata in compressed DML.
• #6867 Clean up compression settings when deleting compressed CAgg.
• #6869 Fix compressed DML with constraints of form value OP column.
• #6870 Fix bool expression pushdown for queries on compressed chunks.

Acknowledgments

• @brasic for reporting a crash when ts_hypertable_insert_blocker was called directly.
• @bvanelli for reporting an issue with the jobs retry count.
• @djzurawski for reporting an error about dropping chunks.
• @Dzuzepppe for reporting the issue that DELETEs using a subquery on compressed chunks was working incorrectly.
• @hongquan for reporting a 'timestamp out of range' error during CAgg migrations.
• @kevcenteno for reporting that the show_chunks API returned an incorrect output when 'created_before/created_after' was used with time-partitioned columns.
• @mahipv for starting working on the job history PR.
• @rovo89 for reporting that constify cagg_watermark was not working using the window function when querying a CAgg.