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We’re pleased to announce two new releases of Postgres-XL Docker— a Docker image source for Postgres-XL, the scalable open-source PostgreSQL-based database cluster. The images are based on Debian. Docker images are available. These releases contain build updates for Postgres-XL 9.5 and Postgres-XL 10.
Availability
- Postgres-XL 10 is available on Docker Hub:
pavouk0/postgres-xl:XL_10_R1_1-313-g31dfe47-13-gbe4dce7 - Postgres-XL 9.5 is available on Docker Hub:
pavouk0/postgres-xl:XL9_5_R1_5-451-gaed0774-15-g23c3476
Release notes
#38: Submodules documentation
Documentation was improved to make it clear that Git submodules need to be pulled.
Thanks to @sstubbs for this open-source contribution.
#39: Shared-image build tweak
A build tweak was made to use a shared-image approach using YAML anchors.
Thanks to @sstubbs for this open-source contribution.
#40: Return of the Netcat
Netcat was removed from the image in the previous releases, since the GTM healthcheck was much improved to not require it. However, a case was made that it was useful for alternative styles of healthcheck, such as some are using for using Postgres-XL on Kubernetes.
Thanks to @LamaAni for this open-source contribution.
#45: Jammy healthchecks
There appears to be a race-condition in upstream Postgres-XL when calling createdb from 2 coordinators at once. This was reproducible multiple times, and investigation showed that others, too, were working around the issue. This caused the cluster bootstrap to fail unpredictably. A hacky workaround was added, to add a random sleep to each coordinator node during the bootstrap process, making a race much less likely.
Thanks to @tiredpixel (a.k.a. me) for this open-source contribution.