PostgreSQL: powa-archivist 5.1.1 is out!

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powa-archivist 5.1.1

The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.1.1 of powa-archivist, the core extension of the PoWA project.

PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer) is a performance tool, compatible with all supported PostgreSQL versions. It allows to collect and aggregate metrics gathered from multiple PostgreSQL instances using various extensions covering all parts of PostgreSQL and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your servers. It also suggest optimizations, like global or per-query index suggestions, to easily improve performances.

• Bugfixes
  • Fix TOAST table size double counting (Marc Cousin)
  • Fix various pg_stat_io with pg18+ (Julien Rouhaud)

Links & Credits

Thank to the users who reported bugs or submitted patches, they are all cited in the CHANGELOG file and the CONTRIBUTORS file.

powa-archivist is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the github repository at github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist.

Links

• Documentation: powa.readthedocs.io/
• Download: github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases
• Bug tracker: github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues

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