Welcome to pgrx v0.16.0.

This release contains support for Postgres 18beta2 and has some breaking changes in that support for pgrx' "hooks" implementation, which has been deprecated for over a year, has finally been removed.

Additionally, due to unsoundness issues, direct support for using heapless in shared memory has been removed. Users can still do this themselves, which requires them to assert they're taking responsibility of possible unsoundness issues.

As always, first install the latest cargo-pgrx with:

:::shell
$ cargo install cargo-pgrx --version 0.16.0 --locked

Then you're free to run cargo pgrx upgrade in the root of all your extension crates.

To pickup pg18beta2 support you'll also want to run cargo pgrx init so that it can be downloaded and compiled.

What's Changed

Breaking Changes

• delete pgrx::hooks by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2120
• improve shmem api by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2107

New Features

• update to Postgres v18beta2 by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2111
• feat: BackgroundWorker::connect_worker_to_spi_by_oid by @if0ne in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2116
• teach #[pg_cast] to support 3-argument CAST functions by @eeeebbbbrrrr in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2119
• teach #[pg_extern] about a SUPPORT function by @eeeebbbbrrrr in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2121

Bug Fixes

• fix name_data_to_str by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2108
• add pg_guard_ffi_boundary to direct_pg_extern_function_call_as_datum by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2118

cargo-pgrx Improvements

• add --valgrind to more cargo-pgrx subcommands by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2109
• cargo pgrx regress --resetdb will run setup.sql by @ccleve in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2113

Code Cleanup

• filter out unrecognized attributes in PostgresGucEnum by @usamoi in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2102
• Elide needless lifetime by @nyurik in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2097

Package/Build System Cleanup

• chore: include pgrx-version-updater into workspace by @nyurik in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2101
• chore: consolidate package settings in workspace by @nyurik in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2100
• chore: prepare for 2024 edition by @nyurik in https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/pull/2103

Thanks!

Thanks to all contributors -- y'alls work helps keep pgrx moving forward.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/compare/v0.15.0...v0.16.0