powa-archivist 5.3.0 is out!

Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 16 Aug 2026

powa-archivist 5.3.0
====================

The PoWA team is pleased to announce the release of the version 5.3.0 of
[powa-archivist](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist), the core
extension of the PoWA project.

[PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer)](https://powa.readthedocs.io/) 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.

- Misc
- Fix pg19 compatibility with pg19beta2 pg_stat_lock.wait_time datatype
change (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](https://github.com/powa-team/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](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist).

Links
=====

- Documentation: [powa.readthedocs.io/](https://powa.readthedocs.io/)
- Download: [github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases)
- Bug tracker: [github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues)