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+The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of
+[PostgreSQL 14](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html), the latest
+version of the world’s [most advanced open source database](https://www.postgresql.org/).
+
+PostgreSQL 14 brings a variety of features that help developers and
+administrators to deploy their data-backed applications. PostgreSQL continues to
+add innovations on complex data types, including more conveniences for accessing
+JSON and support for noncontiguous ranges of data. This latest release also adds
+to PostgreSQL's trend on improvements for high performance and distributed
+data workloads, with advances in support for connection concurrency, high-write
+workloads, query parallelism and logical replication.
+
+_Hold for quote_
+
+[PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org), an innovative data management system
+known for its reliability and robustness, benefits from over 25 years of open
+source development from a [global developer community](https://www.postgresql.org/community/)
+and has become the preferred open source relational database for organizations
+of all sizes.
+
+
+### JSON Conveniences and Multiranges
+
+PostgreSQL has supported manipulating [JSON](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-json.html)
+data since the release of PostgreSQL 9.2, though retrieval of values used a
+unique syntax. PostgreSQL 14 now lets you [access JSON data using subscripts](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-json.html#JSONB-SUBSCRIPTING), e.g. a query like `SELECT ('{ "postgres": { "release": 14 }}'::jsonb)['postgres']['release'];`
+now works. This aligns PostgreSQL with commonly recognized syntax for
+retrieving information from JSON data. The subscripting framework added to
+PostgreSQL 14 can be generally extended to other nested data structures, and is
+also applied to the `hstore` data type in this release.
+
+[Range types](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/rangetypes.html), also first
+released in PostgreSQL 9.2, now have support for noncontiguous ranges through
+the introduction of the "[multirange](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/rangetypes.html#RANGETYPES-BUILTIN)".
+A multirange is an ordered list of ranges that are nonoverlapping, which allows
+for developers to write simpler queries for dealing with complex sequences of
+ranges. The range types native to PostgreSQL (dates, times, numbers) support
+multiranges, and other data types can be extended to use multirange support.
+
+### Performance Improvements for Heavy Workloads
+
+PostgreSQL 14 provides a significant throughput boost on workloads that use many
+connections, with some benchmarks showing a 2x speedup. This release continues
+on the recent improvements the overall management of B-tree indexes by reducing
+index bloat on tables with [frequently updated indexes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/btree-implementation.html#BTREE-DELETION).
+
+PostgreSQL 14 introduces the ability to [pipeline queries](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pipeline-mode.html)
+to a database, which can significantly improve performance over high latency
+connections or for workloads with many small write (`INSERT`/`UPDATE`/`DELETE`)
+operations. As this is a client-side feature, you can use pipeline mode with any
+modern PostgreSQL database so long as you use the version 14 client.
+
+### Enhancements for Distributed Workloads
+
+Distributed PostgreSQL databases stand to benefit from PostgreSQL 14. When using
+[logical replication](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication.html),
+PostgreSQL can now stream in-progress transactions to subscribers, with
+significant performance benefits for applying large transactions on subscribers.
+PostgreSQL 14 also adds several other performance enhancements to the logical
+decoding system that powers logical replication.
+
+[Foreign data wrappers](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-createforeigndatawrapper.html),
+used to work with federated workloads across PostgreSQL and other databases, can
+now leverage query parallelism in PostgreSQL 14. This release implements this
+ability in the [`postgres_fdw`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/postgres-fdw.html),
+the foreign data wrapper that interfaces with other PostgreSQL databases.
+
+In addition to supporting query parallelism, `postgres_fdw` can now also bulk
+insert data on foreign tables and import table partitions with the
+[`IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-importforeignschema.html)
+directive.
+
+### Administration and Observability
+
+PostgreSQL 14 extends its performance gains to its [vacuuming](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/routine-vacuuming.html)
+system. This release includes optimizations for reducing overhead from B-trees
+indexes and now allows autovacuum to analyze partitioned tables and propagate
+information to its parents. [`ANALYZE`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-analyze.html),
+used to collect database statistics, now runs significantly faster in
+PostgreSQL 14 due to its own performance improvements.
+
+The choice of compression for PostgreSQL's [TOAST](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/storage-toast.html)
+system, which is used to store larger data like blocks of text or geometries,
+can [now be configured](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-DEFAULT-TOAST-COMPRESSION).
+PostgreSQL 14 adds LZ4 compression for TOAST columns while retaining support for
+`pglz` compression.
+
+PostgreSQL 14 adds several new features to help with monitoring and
+observability, including the ability to [track the progress of `COPY` commands](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/progress-reporting.html#COPY-PROGRESS-REPORTING),
+[write-ahead-log (WAL) activity](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-WAL-VIEW),
+and [statistics on replication slots](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-REPLICATION-SLOTS-VIEW).
+Enabling [`compute_query_id`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-COMPUTE-QUERY-ID)
+lets you uniquely track a query through several PostgreSQL systems, including
+[`pg_stat_activity`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-PG-STAT-ACTIVITY-VIEW),
+[`EXPLAIN VERBOSE`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-explain.html), and
+through several logging functions.
+
+### SQL Performance, Conformance, and Convenience
+
+Query planning and execution benefit from enhancements in PostgreSQL 14. This
+release includes several improvements to PostgreSQL's query parallelism support,
+including better performance of parallel sequential scans, the ability for
+[`PL/pgSQL`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/plpgsql.html) to execute
+parallel queries when using the `RETURN QUERY` directive, and enabling
+[`REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-refreshmaterializedview.html)
+to execute parallel queries. Additionally, queries that use nested loop joins
+may see performance benefits through additional caching that is added in
+PostgreSQL 14.
+
+The [extended systems](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/planner-stats.html#PLANNER-STATS-EXTENDED)
+includes many improvements in PostgreSQL 14, including the ability to apply
+extend statistics on expressions. Additionally,
+[window functions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-window.html) can
+now benefit from incremental sorts, a feature that was introduced in
+[PostgreSQL 13](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-13-released-2077/).
+
+[Stored procedures](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-createprocedure.html),
+which allow for transaction control in a block of code, can now return data by
+using `OUT` parameters.
+
+PostgreSQL 14 introduces the ability to "bin", or align, timestamps to a
+particular interval using the [`date_bin`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-BIN)
+function. This release also adds the SQL conforming
+[`SEARCH`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/queries-with.html#QUERIES-WITH-SEARCH)
+and [`CYCLE`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/queries-with.html#QUERIES-WITH-CYCLE)
+directives to help with ordering and cycle detection for recursive
+[common table expressions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/queries-with.html#QUERIES-WITH-RECURSIVE).
+
+### Security Enhancements
+
+PostgreSQL 14 makes it convenient to assign read-only and write-only privileges
+to users on tables, views, and schemas using the `pg_read_all_data` and
+`pg_write_all_data` [predefined roles](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/predefined-roles.html).
+
+Additionally, this release now makes the standard compliant
+[`SCRAM-SHA-256`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/auth-password.html) password
+management and authentication system the default on new PostgreSQL instances.
+
+### About PostgreSQL
+
+[PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) is the world's most advanced open
+source database, with a global community of thousands of users, contributors,
+companies and organizations. Built on over 30 years of engineering, starting at
+the University of California, Berkeley, PostgreSQL has continued with an
+unmatched pace of development. PostgreSQL's mature feature set not only matches
+top proprietary database systems, but exceeds them in advanced database
+features, extensibility, security, and stability.
+
+### Links
+
+* [Download](https://www.postgresql.org/download/)
+* [Release Notes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html)
+* [Press Kit](https://www.postgresql.org/about/press/)
+* [Security Page](https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/)
+* [Versioning Policy](https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/)
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