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Add ability to authenticate against Azure Active Directory
It'd be really useful to not have to rely on DB users for authentication but allow integration with AAD. That way we can enforce password complexity, expiry etc which can't be done with native users.
90 votes -
Logical Replication
I have a pretty large database, over 70GB, and cannot afford to have downtime with a full backup and restore. Please add support for logical replication with pg logical, slony, or another means.
62 votes -
Ability to output data changes via logical decoding (ex. wal2json)
PostgreSQL, since 9.4, has the ability to provide the list of changes made to a database in a manner that is transaction-safe and lossless.
To enable this feature, the wallevel needs to be set to logical and there needs to be an available output plugin. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL only comes with the testdecoding plugin, which was only really meant as an example.
AWS for example, has included wal2json support:
The simple wal2json output plugin would be a good way to provide access to this powerful feature for a wide audience.
I'd also be fine with other output plugins.…
41 votes -
pg_cron extension
Include pg_cron in order to schedule periodic maintenance tasks.
38 votes -
PGAudit extension
Add PGAudit extension
27 votesstarted ·
AdminAzure Database for PostgreSQL Product Team
(Product Owner, Microsoft Azure)
responded
pgAudit is now in public preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Thank you for your support of this feature.
For more information: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/postgresql/concepts-audit
Best,
Rachel, on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team -
Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension
Support temporal tables extension to provide part of the features similar to SQL Server Temporal Tables.
24 votes -
Ability to scale between different tiers
Right now, it doesn't seem to be possible to scale from Basic to Standard. Would be good if that was possible.
24 votesneed-feedback ·AdminAzure Database for PostgreSQL Product Team
(Product Owner, Microsoft Azure)
responded
Today we support migration between General Purpose and Memory Optimised tiers. We don’t have an automated migration between either of those tiers and the Basic tier.
Please share in the comments whether you need a migration between Basic and GP/MO, and do add details on why.
Best,
Rachel on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team -
Add support for auto_explain to collect access plans of the slow queries
auto_expalin would help us collect access plans of the queries which exceed a threshold of the query execution time.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/auto-explain.html
23 votes -
Need test_parser extension
We are using tsvector for full text search.
And we want to use test_parser extension.Although test_parser's doc says "It doesn't do anything especially useful".
It is actually very useful when using custom tokenizer.testparser is available on Amazon RDS
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAPPostgreSQL.html22 votes -
pg_squeeze is an extension that removes unused space from a table and optionally sorts tuples according to particular index
https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pgsqueeze
pgsqueeze is an extension that removes unused space from a table and
optionally sorts tuples according to particular index (as if CLUSTER [2]
command was executed concurrently with regular reads / writes). In fact we try
to replace pg_repack [1] extension.21 votes -
Azure Powershell SDK support for PostgreSQL
There are great ways to manage the PostgreSQL in Azure via the Azure CLI. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/sample-scripts-azure-cli.
It would be great to get this possibility as well in Powershell
21 votes -
pgagent extension
We need to run regular maintenance tasks on our database, which we usually perform with pgagent https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin3/1.22/pgagent.html
Pgagent will be installed as a service on the application server, but for pgagent to work we need the pgagent extension deployed in the application database, see also https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin3/1.22/pgagent-install.html#database-setup
19 votes -
Support stored procedures in Python
I would like Azure to be the first cloud service to support the Pl/Pythonu extension. There are security risks involved with supporting this extension, so innovation will be needed, but I believe there is a huge machine learning community that would enjoy it if they could run Python code close to their data.
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Configurable autovacuum
Our database is in use, in reading and writing, 24 hours per day through batch elaborations and online transactional operations. In our scenario, the auto vacuum is dangerous because it can slow down operations in the wrong moment of the day causing low answer times or even unavailability of our web application.
For this reason, we decided to turn off the auto vacuum and manage manually the maintenance routine of our tables: we use pgagent to schedule daily vacuum analyze of our tables and manually run vacuum full on large tables when needed (eg. their size on disk is too…
16 votes -
Server-side connection pooling
Would be great if it was possible to enable server-side connection pooling (e.g. Pgpool-II or PgBouncer) right from the portal.
15 votes -
Making checkpoint_timeout longer to prevent freqent checkpointing
We are planning our PostgreSQL database to move to Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Now, we are working on performance analysis and tuning (for database refactoring) prior to moving to Azure, and we have found that frequent checkpoints are generating heavy load.
So, we have checked the checkpoint parameters on Azure, and we afraid of that checkpoint_timeout (5min) is too short and it couldn't be changed by the user. It could generates frequent checkpoints.
I think 30~60min for the checkpoint_timeout parameter is very common [1], so I hope Azure would have that as the default value.
[1] Basics of Tuning Checkpoints
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Need a way to terminate sessions to drop and recreate a database
I have used the following script to kill connections prior to dropping, creating and loading a database on our in house postgresql instance:
SELECT pgterminatebackend(pgstatactivity.pid)
FROM pgstatactivity
WHERE pgstatactivity.datname = 'TARGET_DB';But it requires superuser rights to kill the connections which is something we don't get on Azure.
I would like some programmatic way to do this in Azure.
15 votes -
Ability to restore data from a snapshot
We have a transient workload that only needs to run once every week at most. However, the DB state needs to be saved at the end of each run. Since the workload only runs occasionally, it costs quite a lot to keep the server running in the meanwhile, even at the minimum size for the tier.
While it is possible to pg_dump/restore the data, this is very slow compared to restoring from a snapshot, which would be nearly instantaneous. Currently, deleting a server also removes the ability to access backups for the server.
If one could optionally save a snapshot…
13 votes -
Upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.6 to 10.3
Please provide a tool or procedure to upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.6 to 10.3.
13 votes -
PostGIS 2.5
Please upgrade PostGIS 2.4 to PostGIS 2.5 on PostgreSQL 10. Several new features were introduced in PostGIS 2.5 which speeds up spatial calculations.
11 votes
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