Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18 Beta 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing users to evaluate the pre-release version of PostgreSQL 18.
- Introduces "skip scan" support for multicolumn B-tree indexes
- Improves WHERE clause handling for OR and IN conditions
- Adds parallel GIN index builds and updated join operations
- Enhances observability with buffer usage counts and index lookup metrics
- Preview environment database instances are retained for 60 days
- Snapshots can only be used within the preview environment
Users can deploy PostgreSQL 18 Beta 2 in a fully managed database environment and use dump and load functionality for database migration.
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