Changelog

Jul 17, 2025

TimescaleDB 2.21.0 for Aiven for PostgreSQL® released

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Aiven for PostgreSQL®

TimescaleDB extension version 2.21.0 is now available for Aiven for PostgreSQL®. Upgrade to 2.21.0 at your earliest convenience to make sure you use the most robust and secure version available. This release introduces the following:

Features

  • #8081 Use JSON error code for job configuration parsing
  • #8100 Support splitting compressed chunks
  • #8131 Add policy to process hypertable invalidations
  • #8141 Add function to process hypertable invalidations
  • #8165 Reindex recompressed chunks in compression policy
  • #8178 Add columnstore option to CREATE TABLE WITH
  • #8179 Implement direct DELETE on non-segmentby columns
  • #8182 Cache information for repeated upserts into the same compressed chunk
  • #8187 Allow concurrent Continuous Aggregate refreshes
  • #8191 Add option to not process hypertable invalidations
  • #8196 Show deprecation warning for TAM
  • #8208 Use NULL compression for bool batches with all null values like the other compression algorithms
  • #8223 Support for attach/detach chunk
  • #8265 Set incremental Continuous Aggregate refresh policy on by default
  • #8274 Allow creating concurrent continuous aggregate refresh policies
  • #8314 Add support for timescaledb_lake in loader
  • #8209 Add experimental support for Direct Compress of COPY
  • #8341 Allow quick migration from hypercore TAM to (columnstore) heap

Bug fixes

  • #8153 Restoring a database having NULL compressed data
  • #8164 Check columns when creating new chunk from table
  • #8294 The "vectorized predicate called for a null value" error for WHERE conditions like x = any(null::int[]).
  • #8307 Fix missing catalog entries for bool and null compression in fresh installations
  • #8323 Fix DML issue with expression indexes and BHS

GUCs

  • enable_direct_compress_copy: Enable experimental support for direct compression during COPY, default: off
  • enable_direct_compress_copy_sort_batches: Enable batch sorting during direct compress COPY, default: on
  • enable_direct_compress_copy_client_sorted: Correct handling of data sorting by the user is required for this option, default: off

Deprecation

  • Hypercore access method

See the release notes for all TimescaleDB releases.