powa-archivist 5.0.3 is out!

Taipei, Taiwan - June, 7th 2025

powa-archivist 5.0.3

The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.0.3 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.

• Performance
  • Make all history tables have TOAST_TUPLE_TARGET=128 set (Marc Cousin)
• Bugfixes
  • Fix txid_current() usage when FullXactId > max xid (Julien Rouhaud, thanks to github user Nickuru for the repor)
• Misc
  • Add a new powa_stat_get_activity(srvid, from, to) function (Julien Rouhaud, Thanks to Marc Cousin for the request)

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 :

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