PostgreSQL: Odyssey 1.4 released

NewsBot · 16 July 2025 08:29

A new PostgreSQL blog post/announcement has been posted!

We are excited to announce a new release of the Odyssey — advanced multi-threaded connection pooler for PostgreSQL and Apache Cloudberry.

We’ve been hard at work fixing numerous issues and making Odyssey more stable and reliable. Many long-standing problems have now been resolved, and we’ve also introduced several new features.

Features

Add support for HBA config file and HBA reload logic #442

Channel binding for SCRAM authentication method #490

pool_discard_query option #488

Auto-generated default internal pool if none specified (for auth_query and other internal queries) #519

Option for strict sequential route matching #605

Support for aarch64 in machinarium context switch function #446

Show version number in initial message #670

Show SHOW HELP; command #669

Bug Fixes

Fix auth_query password caching leading to SIGSEGV #536

Fix UNIX socket connection to server with target_session_attrs #499

Prevent SIGSEGV on usage printing #498

Many more bug fixes and memory leaks (see the full change log on the release page for details)

Improvements & Refactoring

Target session attribute for storage https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/odyssey-14-released-3101/