Azure Database for PostgreSQL
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plv8 extension
Can the plv8 extension please be added so we can use JavaScript as a language.
It's used in Marten:
https://github.com/JasperFx/marten
And I have a few functions for supporting deep merging of json documents.
105 votesWe’ll provide ETA as soon as we have it. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Nik on behalf of Azure Database for PostgreSQL team
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TimescaleDB extension
Support TimescaleDB extension to postgresql
https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb55 votes -
replication support or is that built in?
Ability to setup replications is critical, I don't see medium to large enterprise use this product at all without ability to ensure replication in place.
42 votesThank you for following this thread. The timeline for the same region read replica feature public preview has shifted out a few months. We’ll update with a firmer ETA for this once we have one. Thank you for your patience
Rachel on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team
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Ability to set up read-only replicas in different regions
Would be great to have an ability to have a master in one region (e.g. Central US) and read-only replicas in other regions (e.g. West/East US)
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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.
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dblink extension
add dblink extension support
26 votesHi,
We’re working on making this happen. The ETA for this feature has shifted out to November.
Best,
Rachel on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team -
Documentation of what Postgres HA really means
No way anyone can trust the HA approach unless its somewhat documented? Is it syncronous, semi? Does it occur through PG replication, if so what type? Is it block level with a warm standby? How does failover occur? Do clients need to worry about failover? How long does failover usually take. Promising a PG HA solution without some type of information such as this is not professional.
24 votesThank you for your interest in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
We have this document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/concepts-high-availability
Is there any information which could be added to make this more complete for you?Regards,
Rachel on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team -
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.test_parser is available on Amazon RDS
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_PostgreSQL.html22 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.
17 votesEnabling migration between performance tiers is in our backlog for this year. We’ll share an ETA once we have one.
Thanks,
Rachel on behalf of the Azure Database for Postgres team -
Citus columnar datastore
I need this to do big-ish data things:
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2014/04/03/columnar-store-for-analytics/
I am a huge fan of postgresql for data warehousing, and this is a key thing for having the ability to summary large tables quickly.
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Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension
Support temporal tables extension to provide part of the features similar to SQL Server Temporal Tables.
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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 pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.pid)
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE pg_stat_activity.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.
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PGAudit extension
Add PGAudit extension
11 votesHi,
Due to our work on other features, the release ETA for pg_audit has shifted to November 2018. We apologise for the date slip.
Please know that we’re working hard to make the entire service increasingly better for you.Best,
Rachel on behalf of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL -
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.
10 votesFirst, thank you for your interest in our product! We have Active Directory integration in our overall plan but we don’t have specific time frame for it yet better than currently we expect it to be available at some point in 2018.
We’ll post an update as soon as we have better estimate.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding!
Nik on behalf of Azure Database for PostgreSQL team -
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
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The ability to set collation on db-create
It would have been great if the user could choose collation on first-time set-up.
10 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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pg_cron extension
Include pg_cron in order to schedule periodic maintenance tasks.
8 votes -
pg_bigm for full text search
I need to support Asian languages for full text search.
8 votes
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