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This topic lists product feature updates and related documentation for RDS for PostgreSQL.

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October 2026

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support PostgreSQL 18	Support PostgreSQL 18, further enriching the capability matrix of RDS for PostgreSQL.	2026-10-15	All	Creating an instance
SQL throttling	PostgreSQL instances support SQL template and keyword-level throttling capabilities. You can configure throttling rules through API interfaces to enhance the stability and availability of databases and business systems.	2026-10-15	All	SQL throttling
Upgrade pgvector extension to version 0.8.2	After version upgrade, you can use the updated vector extension capabilities in PostgreSQL instances to improve compatibility and availability in vector data processing scenarios.	2026-10-15	All	Searching based on high-dimensional vector similarity (pg_vector)

August 2026

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
supports stopping and starting instances (invitation-only)	Support stopping instances while preserving information such as instance data and network configuration, saving instance usage costs without affecting data. Start the instance when needed to quickly resume operation.	2026-08-27	All	Stopping and starting an instance

July 2026

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support viewing abnormal state events of PostgreSQL instances in the event center of Cloud Monitor	Subscribe to events and tasks executed by PostgreSQL instances via Cloud Monitor, helping you keep track of instance status in real time for troubleshooting.	2026-07-30	All	Viewing an event
Supports viewing slow log through the Database Workshop	View the instance slow query SQL list through Database Workshop and further analyze the slow log information of primary and standby nodes to help you quickly locate issues.	2026-07-30	All	Viewing and downloading logs

June 2026

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Supports TDE data encryption (invitation-only)	The TDE encryption feature performs real-time I/O encryption and decryption on data files. It effectively prevents attackers from bypassing the database to directly read sensitive information from storage space, and users can use the TDE feature without modifying any applications.	2026-06-03	All (excluding China (Guangzhou))	About TDE data encryption
Supports effective_cache_size parameter	Supports setting the estimated disk buffer usage for a single query by the query optimizer.	2026-06-03	All	List of modifiable parameters
Supports restricting the instance scope managed by IAM users based on tags	Supports binding corresponding tags to different PostgreSQL instances, and then granting permissions to different IAM users by tag through IAM custom permission policies, restricting IAM users to view or manage only the PostgreSQL instances under specified tags	2026-06-03	All	Limit the instance scope of IAM user management by tags
Supports managing RDS for PostgreSQL resources using the volcengine-rds-postgresql Skill	Supports managing and operating RDS for PostgreSQL instances using volcengine-rds-postgresql Skill in OpenClaw.	2026-06-03	All	Use volcengine-rds-postgresql Skill to manage RDS for PostgreSQL resources.

March 2026

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support up to 12,000 GB of storage space (beta)	When the instance CPU cores are 8 or more, it supports configuring up to 12,000 GB of storage space for the instance.	2026-03-30	All	Product specifications
Expand the range and capabilities of Pulumi-managed PostgreSQL resources	Further expand the scope and capabilities of Pulumi-managed PostgreSQL resources, such as adding tags, removing tags, creating backups, and restoring data for instances.	2026-03-30	All	Pulumi
Support pgjwt extension	Support pgjwt extension, a PostgreSQL-based JSON Web Token (JWT) extension that allows you to generate and verify JWTs directly within the database.	2026-03-30	All	Database-native JWT generation and verification (pgjwt)
Support pgmq extension	Support pgmq extension, a PostgreSQL-based lightweight message queue extension. Its API design is similar to Amazon SQS and RSMQ, providing users with simple yet powerful message processing capabilities.	2026-03-30	All	Native message queue (pgmq)
Support safeupdate extension	Support the safeupdate extension, a lightweight PostgreSQL extension designed to enhance database operation security by enforcing that UPDATE and DELETE statements must include a WHERE clause.	2026-03-30	All	DML statement security protection (safeupdate)
Support pg_graphql extension	Support pg_graphql extension, which provides a complete GraphQL service engine within the database.	2026-03-30	All	Native GraphQL service engine (pg_graphql)
Support hypopg extension	Support hypopg extension, which allows creating hypothetical indexes in memory.	2026-03-30	All	Memory hypothetical index (hypopg)
Support index_advisor extension	Support index_advisor extension, which automatically analyzes given SQL queries and recommends optimal indexes to improve query performance.	2026-03-30	All	Intelligent index recommendation (index_advisor)
Support pg_uuidv7 extension	Support pg_uuidv7 extension, embedding a high-precision Unix timestamp in the high-order bytes of the UUID, with the low-order bytes filled by random numbers to ensure uniqueness.	2026-03-30	All	Time-ordered globally unique identifier (pg_uuidv7)
Support postgresql-hll extension	Support the postgresql-hll extension and introduce a custom data type hll to solve large-scale data cardinality estimation (count distinct) issues, such as billions or more, with minimal storage space and very fast computation speed.	2026-03-30	All	HyperLogLog algorithm extension (postgresql-hll)

February 2026

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support changing the virtual private cloud and subnet used by the instance (beta)	To enhance user experience, RDS for PostgreSQL supports changing the virtual private cloud and subnet used by instances without recreating the instance.	2026-02-03	All	Change the virtual private cloud of the instance
Provide MCP Server	To further simplify resource management for RDS for PostgreSQL, we launched a dedicated service based on the MCP protocol - RDS PostgreSQL MCP Server.	2026-02-03	All	MCP Server

December 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support cloud disk storage type (invitation-only)	You can create instances with Cloud ESSD FlexPL or Cloud ESSD PL0 storage types. They support maximum storage spaces of 32,000 GB and 16,000 GB, respectively.	2025-12-02	China (Guangzhou), Asia Pacific (Johor), Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	Product specifications
Release new SDK version	Released SDKs for Python (4.0.41), Go (v1.1.53), and Java (0.2.52).	2025-12-02	All	SDK overview
Support event monitoring	Integrate with Cloud monitor (VCM) to monitor events such as "Active and standby switching (task switching)", "Active and standby switching (failover)", and "Instance backup failed", and support configuring alarm rules.	2025-12-02	All	Viewing an event
Supports viewing and downloading WAL backup	Support viewing and downloading WAL backup to check write actions locally, verify wal integrity, analyze replication/recovery issues, and assess write performance.	2025-12-02	All	Downloading WAL backup

October 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support SSL encryption	Support enabling SSL encryption for instances and supports updating SSL certificates.	2025-10-13	All	Configuring SSL encryption
Upgrade "Historical event" to "Task center"	Upgrades “Historical event” to “Task center”. In Task center, you can view and manage all Actions performed on instances.	2025-10-13	All	Task center
Support for configuration adjustment evaluation	Support estimating changes and giving possible impacts when modifying instance configuration.	2025-10-13	All	Regular modification of specification
Support an incremental backup method with high-frequency incremental data	Support a high-frequency incremental backup method to meet backup needs in different scenarios and reduce the overall cost of backup usage.	2025-10-13	All	Customizing backup policies
Support more monitoring monitor and alarm metrics	More monitoring metrics are added under the dimensions of resource monitoring, engine monitoring, and deployment monitoring to facilitate a more comprehensive grasp of the instance state.	2025-10-13	All	Monitoring metrics
Provide private network address accessible across domains (trial)	Provide private network addresses with cross-region access, enriching the business scenarios supported by instances connection.	2025-10-13	All	Obtaining cross-regional private network address

July 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support for major kernel version upgrades of the database (invitation for testing)	RDS for PostgreSQL provides the ability to upgrade a major version of an instance, allowing you to upgrade a lower version of PostgreSQL instance that meets the conditions to a higher version, and support cross-version upgrades.	2025-07-31	All	Upgrading database major version
Enhanced allowlist management capabilities	Support setting the allowlist as the default allowlist; support binding ECS security groups by "Associated ECSIP" and "Inbound IP", which is closer to the actual usage scenario.	2025-07-31	All	Creating an allowlist Modifying an allowlist
Enhanced allowlist management capabilities	It provides copy, synchronization and batch disassociating instance functions for allowlist to improve product experience.	2025-07-31	All	Disassociating allowlists Copying an allowlist
Support for specifying an allowlist when creating an instance.	Support for specifying an allowlist to associate with when creating an instance.	2025-07-31	All	Creating an instance Restoring to a new instanceRestoring to new instance
Added monitoring metrics for databases & tables	Add the monitoring indicator "DBMaxTableSize, which monitors the size of the largest table under the database in units of the database.	2025-07-31	All	Monitoring metrics
Enhance the management of operations events	Enhance the ability to manage operation and maintenance events, and support modifying the switching time of operation and maintenance events to be executed.	2025-07-31	All	Modifying the switching time of the operation and maintenance event

June 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support for creating parameter templates and applying them to instances	Support for creating custom parameter templates and applying parameter templates to single or batch instances to quickly adjust the parameter configuration of the instance.	2025-06-04	All	Apply parameter template Manage parameter template
Support for cloning databases	Support cloning existing databases to quickly create new databases with the same structure as existing databases.	2025-06-04	All	Cloning a database
Support for specifying backup objects and backup types when creating backups	When creating a backup, it supports selecting the backup object as the entire instance or a specified database, and supports creating physical and logical backups of the entire instance.	2025-06-04	All	Creating a data backup
Support for creating logical backups and downloads	Support creating logical backups for specified databases and downloading logical backups locally.	2025-06-04	All	Creating a data backup Downloading data backup files
Support restoring from logical backups to existing instances	Support restoring from logical backups to existing instances	2025-06-04	All	Restoring to existing instance
Add monitoring metrics for slow queries	Add a monitoring indicator of "incremental change trend of slow query in nearly n seconds", which supports user-defined statistical time of the indicator.	2025-06-04	All	Monitoring metrics

April 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support PostgreSQL 17	Support PostgreSQL 17, further enriching the capability matrix of RDS for PostgreSQL.	2025-04-22	All	Creating an instance
Support pg_repack 1.5.2	Provide the pg_repack plug-in of version 1.5.2.	2025-04-22	All	Cleaning space (pg_repack)
Support pg_vector 0.8.0	Provide the pg_vector extension 0.8.0 in PostgreSQL 13 and above instances, adding three new vector data types, two vector operators, two parameters for ivfflat index queries, and three parameters for HNSW index queries.	2025-04-22	All	Searching based on high-dimensional vector similarity (pg_vector)
Support pg_partman extension	Support the pg_partman extension, providing time-based and sequence-based table partition set management capabilities.	2025-04-22	All	Time-based and sequence-based table partition set management (pg_partman)
Support for pg_jobmon extension	Support for pg_jobmon extension, which provides a non-transactional transaction and function logging mechanism for retaining log information when a transaction or function fails.	2025-04-22	All	Logging extensions (pg_jobmon)
Enhanced the ability to export instance lists	Enhanced the ability to export instance lists, supporting: Export instance lists in multiple ranges to meet business needs in more scenarios. Export the endpoint address of the instance.	2025-04-22	All	Exporting the instance list
Adjust the number limit of batch creation of instances	Adjust the number limit of batch creation of instances, and increase the number of instances when creating instances in batches to 20.	2025-04-22	All	Creating an instance
Support displaying operation and maintenance events in the console	Add the display of operation and maintenance events in the console, which can easily view the operation and maintenance events that are expected to be executed in the current region, such as version upgrades and host operation and maintenance.	2025-04-22	All	Viewing operation and maintenance events

March 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Release the first Java SDK based on Open API V2	Release the first Java SDK based on Open API V2, with version number 0.1.157. SDKs for Python (1.0.130) and Go (v1.0.187) are released simultaneously.	2025-03-20	All	SDK overview
Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region officially available	RDS for PostgreSQL is officially available for sale in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) starting from Beijing time on March 12, 2025.	2025-03-12	Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	Endpoints
Support pg_bigm extension	Support pg_bigm extension, which supports creating a 2-gram GIN index to speed up the full-text search process.	2025-03-10	All	Full-text search (pg_bigm)
Support pg_ivm extension	Support pg_ivm extension, which provides the incremental view maintenance (IVM) function.	2025-03-10	All	Incremental view maintenance (pg_ivm)
Support for defining and deploying RDS for PostgreSQL through Pulumi	Complete the connection with the ecosystem tool - Pulumi, supporting the definition and deployment of RDS for PostgreSQL resources through Pulumi.	2025-03-10	All	Pulumi

February 2025

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support pg_hint_plan extension	Support pg_hint_plan extension, providing the ability to change the established execution plan through annotation hints.	2025-02-19	All	Changing the given execution plan through annotation hints (pg_hint_plan)
Support pg_profile extension	Support pg_profile extension, providing the ability to count resource-intensive activities.	2025-02-19	All	Resource-intensive activity statistics (pg_profile)
Enhanced replication slot management capabilities	Enhanced replication slot management capabilities, support for deleting active replication slots, and support for batch deletion of replication slots.	2025-02-19	All	- Deleting replication slot Deleting replication slots in batches

December 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Add monitoring metrics related to slow queries, deadlocks, and lock waits	Provide monitoring items for instantaneous slow queries, the queries with lock waiting time exceeding 1h, 2pc transactions, database deadlocks, and the data return-to-scan ratio.	2024-12-25	All	Monitoring metrics
Support PostgreSQL 15 and PostgreSQL 16	Support PostgreSQL 15 and PostgreSQL 16, further enriching the capability matrix of RDS for PostgreSQL.	2024-12-11	All	Creating an instance
Support zhparser extension	Support zhparser extension, providing Chinese word segmentation capability. Support zhparser extension, providing Chinese word segmentation capability.	2024-12-11	All	Chinese word segmentation (zhparser)
Support wal2json extension	Support wal2json extension, supporting the output of logical log files in JSON format for viewing or downstream system consumption.	2024-12-11	All	Logical log conversion (wal2json)
Support orafce extension	Support orafce extension, providing compatibility with Oracle database.	2024-12-11	All	Compatibility extension (orafce)
Support pg_jieba extension	Support pg_jieba extension, providing a PostgreSQL extension for Chinese word segmentation full-text search.	2024-12-11	All	Chinese search (pg_jieba)
Optimize the display of the list of modifiable parameters	Optimize the display of the list of modifiable parameters and provide parameter type information.	2024-12-11	All	List of modifiable parameters
Provided IP addresses for instances	Provide IP addresses for instances to meet users' needs for connecting to instances in different business scenarios.	2024-12-11	All	Viewing instance connection information
Provide SQL throttling capabilities (beta)	In order to cope with high-concurrency business peaks, SQL throttling capabilities are provided to limit and manage the resource consumption of specific SQL statements.	2024-12-11	All	SQL throttling (beta)
Related product updates - DBW	The one-click diagnostic function can help you more intuitively view the full picture of the performance of the cloud database PostgreSQL version database instance and confirm whether the instance has any abnormalities.	2024-12-05	All	Diagnosis (PostgreSQL)

October 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
China (Hong Kong) is officially available	RDS for PostgreSQL is officially available for sale in China (Hong Kong) starting from Beijing time on October 30, 2024.	2024-10-30	China (Hong Kong)	Endpoints
Support for managing WAL log space	Support for clearing WAL logs for instances, providing the ability to have more granular control over instance storage space.	2024-10-24	All	Clear WAL
Support for calling interfaces related to allowlist in Terraform	Ecotool-Terraform adds support for the interfaces to the allowlist, which allows you to query, create, bind, unbind, and delete allowlists in Terraform.	2024-10-24	All	About Terraform
Support for using a preset alarm template when creating an alarm policy	Support for using a preset alarm template when creating an alarm policy. The preset template contains the basic information, alarm objects, and alarm rules of the alarm policy, and the preset alarm template can be applied with one click to simplify the operation process.	2024-10-24	All	Creating an alarm strategy
Add monitoring metrics related to error logs	Provide alarm metrics related to error logs and optimize the display of error logs.	2024-10-24	All	Monitoring metrics
Related product updates - DBW	The DBW's instances page provides access to the target instance details.	2024-10-18	All	List of PostgreSQL instances
		Logging in again after logging out at the Data Interaction Desk will restore all pages before logging out by default.	2024-10-18	All	Log in to the RDS for PostgreSQL console
		The default retention time for database audit logs has been changed to 30 days, and support has been added to select retention for 180 days, 1 year, and 3 years.	2024-09-27	All	PostgreSQL database audit management
		Add more default security rules to the security rule set for RDS for PostgreSQL in Security rules.	2024-09-27	All	PostgreSQL security rules management
		On the ticket list page, DBW administrators can view all ticket information, while DBW normal users can only view the ticket information created and approved by themselves.	2024-09-27	All	PostgreSQL ticket list
		Support viewing session statistics and real-time session information of RDS for PostgreSQL instances in the DBW console.	2024-09-23	All	Session management
		DBW supports IAM users to apply for DBW roles, as well as operating permissions for RDS for PostgreSQL instances.	2024-09-03	All	Apply for the relevant operation permissions of the cloud database PostgreSQL version
		DBW supports unified management of RDS for PostgreSQL instances through user management, security rules, and normal SQL change tickets.	2024-08-08	All	User management Security rules Create a normal SQL change ticket
		DBW supports the security control function of enabling instances, which can centrally manage database instances, simplify and standardize database management operations, and improve data management efficiency. At the same time, after the security control function is turned on, the password-free login instance is also supported.	2024-08-08	All	Enable security control Log in to the RDS for PostgreSQL console
		Tags showing access instances are supported in the DBW instance list.	2024-08-08	All	PostgreSQL instances

August 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Asia Pacific (Johor) is officially available	The RDS for PostgreSQL is officially available for sale in Asia Pacific (Johor) from October 30, 2024, Beijing time.	August.30 2024	Asia Pacific (Johor)	Endpoints

July 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support PostgreSQL 14	Support PostgreSQL 14, further enriching the capability matrix of RDS for PostgreSQL.	2024-07-30	All	Creating an instance
Support WAL log management capability	Provide WAL log management capability, support viewing and managing replication slots in instances, and further enhance instance stability.	2024-07-30	All	WAL management
Support pg_vector 0.6.2	Provide the pg_vector extension 0.6.2 in PostgreSQL 12 and above instances to support parallel construction of HNSW indexes and index construction progress query.	2024-07-30	All	Searching based on high-dimensional vector similarity (pg_vector)
Support pg_cron 1.6.2	Provide the pg_cron extension 1.6.2 to improve the reliability and stability of the extension.	2024-07-30	All	Task scheduler expanding (pg_cron)
Provide more monitoring metrics	29 new monitoring metrics are added, and dashboards are provided for 25 of them to help you understand the details of instance status and business status.	2024-07-30	All	Monitoring metrics

June 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support restarting read-only nodes	When restarting an instance, you can select the restart range, and you can choose to restart all nodes or specify read-only nodes.	2024-06-12	All	Restarting an instance or read-only node(s)
Support database audit	RDS for PostgreSQL has completed the connection with the Database Workshop, providing database audit capabilities with a white screen of the database interactive platform.	2024-06-12	All	Observation diagnosis

April 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Provide new allowlist management capabilities	Provide new version of allowlist management function, and provide the corresponding Open API. The new allowlist management function decouples the allowlist from the instance, and can maintain the allowlist independently. Support batch operations, such as binding batch allowlists to instances, or binding batch instances for allowlists.	2024-04-25	All	Upgrading allowlist
Support creating instance read-only accounts	Support creating instance read-only accounts. The instance read-only account only has read-only permissions for all databases in the instance, which facilitates precise permission management on the business side.	2024-04-25	All	Creating an account
Support ecosystem tool - Terraform	Add support for Terraform to orchestrate the creation and use of resources using configuration files.	2024-04-25	All	About Terraform
Released the first Python SDK and Go SDK based on V2 version Open API	Released V2 (2022-01-01) Open API Python SDK and Go SDK that support local installation.	2024-04-25	All	SDK overview
Add limit on number of Open API calls	Add the limit on the number of Open API calls, limiting the number of Open API calls per second to no more than 20.	2024-04-25	All	API overview
Optimize instance list search capabilities	Optimize the search ability of the instance list, support fuzzy search for the instance ID; and add the search classification of "instance ID/instance name", which can be automatically performed by instance ID and instance name, without manually switching the classification.	2024-04-25	All	Viewing instance list
Added RDKit plugin for PostgreSQL 13	Add RDKit plugin for PostgreSQL 13, which generates compound fingerprints based on machine learning methods for substructure search and structural similarity calculation of compounds.	2024-04-25	All	Chemical molecular calculation retrieval (RDKit)

March 2024

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Migrate availability zones (Invitation Testing)	Support modifying the Availability Zone of an instance node, changing a single Availability Zone instance to a multi-Availability Zone instance.	March.25 2024	All	Migrating availability zones
Change primary node availability zone on recovery	It is supported to change the availability zone of the master node of the instance when restoring to a new instance through backup, and it is no longer mandatory to be consistent with the original instance.	March.25 2024	All	Data recovery
Provide observational and diagnostic functions	Provide observational diagnostics to support slow log analysis and audit log management.	March.25 2024	All	Observation diagnosis
Modifying private network address prefix	Support modifying private network address prefix.	March.25 2024	All	Modifying private network address prefix

December 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Supports PostgreSQL 13	Supports PostgreSQL 13, further enriching the capability matrix of RDS for PostgreSQL.	2023-12-08	All	Creating an instance
Support temporary upgrade package annual package monthly instance configuration (invite test)	Support to temporarily enhance the node specifications of the annual and monthly subscription instances to reduce the financial impact while responding to short-term sudden increases in business demand.	2023-12-08	All	Temporary instance specification upgrade
Support pg_cron extension	Support for pg_cron plug-ins that extend PostgreSQL Task Scheduler functionality.	2023-12-08	All	Task scheduler expanding (pg_cron)
Supports pg_vector 0.5.0 version	RDS for PostgreSQL has fullly supported for pg_vector 0.5.0. pg_vector 0.5.0 version adds support for index type hnsw index, parallel index building IVFFlat, element-by-element multiplication of vectors, l1 distance function, and sum aggregate function sum ().	2023-12-08	All	Searching based on high-dimensional vector similarity (pg_vector)
Support for creating monitoring and alerting policies in the node dimension	Enhanced monitoring and alerting capabilities to support the creation of alerting policies for resource monitoring and engine monitoring in the node dimension. Alert policies for deployment monitoring and agent monitoring support creation in the instance dimension.	2023-12-08	All	Creating an alarm strategy

November 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Release 2022-01-01 version Open API	Release 2022-01-01 version Open API, providing rich interfaces to help you easily use the PostgreSQL version of the cloud database.	2023-11-15	All	API overview

October 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support for backing up deleted instances	Support for backing up deleted instances	2023-10-26	All	Managing deleted instance backups
Support for creating custom read and write connection endpoints	Support to create custom read and write connection end points to enhance the connection ability in instance read and write mode.	2023-10-26	All	About endpoint
Support read-only node specifications lower than the master node	When changing the instance configuration, it supports adjusting the read-only node specification to be lower than the master node to meet the needs of more business scenarios.	2023-10-26	All	Modify configuration
Support to distinguish between the data space and log space of the instance	It supports the classification and statistics of the data space and log space of the instance, which is convenient for accurately managing the storage space of the instance.	2023-10-26	All	Creating an instance
Support to view the real IP address of the client in the slow log	Support for viewing the real IP address of the client in the slow log.	2023-10-26	All	Viewing and downloading logs

August 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support pg_roaringbitmap extension	Provide efficient Bitmap storage and computing capabilities.	2023-08-07	All regions	Bitmap computing (pg_roaringbitmap)
Support pg_vector extension	Provides similarity search capabilities for high-dimensional vectors.	2023-08-07	All	Searching based on high-dimensional vector similarity (pg_vector)
Support pg_stat_kcache extension	Provide the capability to collect statistics on file system read/write information during runtime.	2023-08-07	All	System read and write information statistics (pg_stat_kcache)
Support pg_decoderbufs extension	Provides logical parsing capabilities in protocol buffer format.	2023-08-07	All	Logical analysis (pg_decoderbufs)
Add more specifications	Added 2C16G, 4C32G and 8C64G product specifications.	2023-08-07	All	Product specifications
Support switching projects in the top navigation bar.	Support switching projects in the top navigation bar to optimize the resource management experience.	2023-08-07	All	Adding an instance to a project
Support for multi-availability zone deployment	Support multi-availability zone deployment and provide disaster tolerance across availability zones.	2023-08-07	All	About RDS for PostgreSQL

June 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support pg_repack extension	Provide online Vacuum Full to address the increasing physical disk space used by tables, indexes, and other object.	2023-06-19	All	Cleaning space (pg_repack)
Support public network analysis	RDS for PostgreSQL supports resolving its VPC domain names as private IP addresses in the Internet environment.	2023-06-19	All	Enabling or disabling public network resolution
Support for adding labels to instances	Support adding tags to instances and classifying them by tags, which is convenient for instance search and resource aggregation.	2023-06-19	All	Tag overview
Support slow query count monitoring items	Add a slow query number monitor item under the engine monitoring category.	2023-06-19	All	Monitoring metrics

April 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Read-only instances are incorporated as read-only nodes	For ease of use and management, read-only instances are incorporated into read-only nodes, which can be created, queried, configured, and managed together with primary and secondary nodes.	2023-04-13	All	Creating an instance
Support for adding existing instances to the project	Support for adding existing instances to projects and for migrating instances between projects.	2023-04-13	All	Add Instance to Project
Support access control for instances	Support resource management, permission management, and identity management for instance resources.	2023-04-13	All	Access control

January 2023

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Read-only instances support elastic public network IP functionality	When enabling public network access, you can choose to use Elastic Public IP for better resource resilience.	2023-01-31	All	Enabling public network access
Add monitoring and alerting functions for read-only instances	Support cloud monitoring and cloud alarm functions.	2023-01-31	All	Viewing monitoring information
Support for checking data backup progress	After creating a data backup, it is supported to view the backup progress.	2023-01-31	All	Viewing data backup progress

December 2022

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Add a read and write separation function	Once read/write splitting is enabled, the architecture implements auto read/write splitting to easily cope with high request volumes.	2022-12-19	All	Enable read-write splitting
Add more instance specifications	Added 2C8G, 8C16G, 16C32G, and 32C128G instance specifications.	2022-12-19	All	Product specifications
Support the main account to adjust the instance quota	Connect with the quota center and support the main account to apply for adjusting the instance quota.	2022-12-19	All	Creating an instance
Support cloud monitoring default alarm rules	Support the use of pre-configured alarm templates to simplify the process of creating alarm policies.	2022-12-19	All	Creating an alarm strategy

November 2022

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Support binding elastic public network	When enabling public network access, you can choose to use an elastic public network to achieve better resource resilience.	2022-11-08	All	Enabling public network access
Support storage space scaling	Support storage space scaling.	2022-11-08	All	Modify configuration
Support modifying private network port	The private network port supports on-demand modification.	2022-11-08	All	Modifying private network access port

October 2022

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Database account creation rules	Relax the length limit for database accounts.	2022-10-26	All	Creating and managing accounts

March 2022

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
Product official release	RDS for PostgreSQL is officially released.	2022-03-16	All	About RDS for PostgreSQL
Instance belongs to project group	Support RDS for PostgreSQL edition instances to be attributed to different projects.	2022-03-16	All	Creating an instance
Instance downsizing and unsubscribing	Support instance downsizing and annual subscription and monthly instance unsubscription.	2022-03-16	All regions	Modify configuration Deleting or unsubscribing an instance
Managing schemas	Support for creating, viewing, deleting schemas, and specifying schema owners.	2022-03-16	All	Creating a schema
Logs	Support for viewing and downloading slow logs, error logs, and primary/secondary switch logs.	2022-03-16	All	Viewing and downloading logs

January 2022

Function name	Function description	Release date	Release region	Related document
New instance creation	Merge RDS and veDB instances to create pages.	2022-01-10	All	Creating an instance
Monitoring	Support cloud monitoring and cloud alarm functions.	2022-01-10	All	Viewing monitoring information
Control SDK	Provide Go SDK and Python SDK.	2022-01-10	All	Go SDK Python SDK

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