PostgreSQL 17 released

Version17 of the PostgreSQL database has been released.

This release of PostgreSQL adds significant overall performance gains,including an overhauled memory management implementation for vacuum,optimizations to storage access and improvements for high concurrencyworkloads, speedups in bulk loading and exports, and query executionimprovements for indexes. PostgreSQL 17 has features that benefitbrand new workloads and critical systems alike, such as additions tothe developer experience with the SQL/JSON JSON_TABLE command, andenhancements to logical replication that simplify management of highavailability workloads and major version upgrades.

LWN recently coveredsome of the interesting new features and security enhancements inPostgreSQL 17.