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  1. As a DBA
    I want to be able to click a button or call an API to initiate a primary -> secondary failover
    so that I can recover from an issue that Aiven isn't detecting, or so I can exercise my own availability tests.
    This should be available for all DB engines.

    Thank you

    10 votes

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  2. As a database administrator or developer, I would like to see PgBouncer logging.
    At minimal I should be able to see connection pool creation/deletion/changes and all outbound clients connected to which pool with source IPs.
    1. pgbouncer logs should be available by "avn service logs" and aiven console.
    2. pgbouncer logs should be available with rsyslog integration to 3rd parties.
    3. ideally logging level can be controlled by pg service config parameter pg.logerrorverbosity
    bonus: pgbouncer stats ingested into logging.

    14 votes

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  3. As a customer,
    I want to be able to configure random_page_cost and optionally seq_page_cost in Postgres advanced configurations in order to influence the query planner.

    4 votes

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  4. As db admin
    I want to add bktree extension for Postgres
    so that I can do a similarity search based on hamming distance
    In addition, this extension also includes the SP-GiST.

    Please see the following repository:
    https://github.com/fake-name/pg-spgist_hamming

    1 vote

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  5. As developer
    I want to create event triggers
    so that I can react to DDL changes across the entire database.

    Aiven for Postgres currently does not support Event Triggers: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/event-triggers.html

    1 vote

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  6. As a database administrator or developer,
    I would like to be able to access and read binary logs of the database service by using third-party utilities,
    so that I would be able to perform the tasks security auditing, replication monitoring and possibly data recovery on the database.

    5 votes

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  7. As a database administrator or developer,
    I would like to integrate LDAP authentication with PostgreSQL,
    So that user management becomes centralized through existing LDAP services like ActiveDirectory, enhancing security, simplifying authentication, and eliminating the need for separate authentication methods.

    16 votes

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  8. As a database administrator or developer, I would like to perform in-place major upgrades on standby nodes and read-replicas for PostgreSQL so that the whole upgrade window is considerably shorter, resulting in increased high-availability for standbys and improved availability for read replicas. This feature will also alleviate any bottlenecks caused by the quorum sync replication, enhancing the overall database system's efficiency and resilience.

    11 votes

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  9. As a DBA or developer, I want to be warned if I am updating a parameter that will trigger a restart of my instance so that I can understand the consequences and avoid issues/mistakes.

    Example of parameters: sharedbufferspercentage, autovacuumfreezemax_age

    8 votes

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  10. There are parameters like the 'maxworkerprocesses' that cannot be lowered once it's been enabled and increased with the warning message: "PostgreSQL setting 'maxworkerprocesses' cannot be lowered from its current value". It would be nice to be warned prior to toggling and increasing these settings.

    1 vote

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  11. As a database administrator or developer,
    I would like to integrate Kerberos authentication with PostgreSQL,
    So that user management becomes centralized through existing Kerberos services like ActiveDirectory, enhancing security, simplifying authentication, and eliminating the need for separate authentication methods.

    3 votes

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  12. As a developer using Aiven for Valkey,
    I would like to have support for the JSON data type,
    so that I can store, update, and retrieve JSON values in an Aiven for Valkey database, similar to any other data types.

    21 votes

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  13. Allowing WAL compression could be beneficial for several reasons: reduction of disk space usage, IO efficiency, faster replication, generally improving performance.

    6 votes

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  14. As database administrator or developer,
    I want to see both the primary and read-only connections in the connections tab of the web console
    so that I can observe all of the connections at the same time

    2 votes

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  15. As Database Administrator or Engineer,
    I want to be able to edit the PgBouncer maxpreparedstatements configuration parameter, as it has a direct impact in the latency of the consumers of the database through the pool.

    Also, the default setting of 100 max prepared statements that Aiven has in the system is incorrect and will cause issues with ORM users when they upgrade the pgbouncer version in Aiven.

    https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/21531#issuecomment-1794539086

    6 votes

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  16. As a dba
    I want to add the PGOUTPUT extension
    so that we can use this type of logical replication
    In addition, it is important as our system integration requires it to work, and it is generally better performing over test_decoding

    1 vote

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  17. As a database administrator,
    I would like to be able to see the availability zone locations of the cloud region where my high-availability capable PostgreSQL or MySQL database cluster resides, and I would like to be able to initiate a manual high-availability takeover operation for that cluster,
    so that I can have improved visibility of the availability zones where my database cluster instances are located, and I would have more authority on promotion of read-replicas for the the purpose of troubleshooting performance issues and avoiding incidental issues on specific availability zones.

    10 votes

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  18. As a database administrator for a large enterprise,
    I want to be able to leverage an Aiven platform API,
    so that I can extract and archive, logical backups of my instances in order to meet and pass industry audit and compliance checks for data retention.
    These periods of retention could vary but be as long as 3 years. I would not expect to be able to restore these logical backups in the Aiven platform, and would be manage this myself should I need to.

    17 votes

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  19. It would be great to be able to see the end time of when a backup is completed.
    This way you can know how long the backup took. As well as monitor and see when the lock error will no longer occur.

    8 votes

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  20. As a customer
    I want to change the values of innodb_buffer_pool_size, innodb_buffer_pool_instances, and innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size
    so that I can tune the DB config to better suit my workload
    In addition, I understand that any changes should be within sensible limits, as taking too much memory away from the OS can cause OOM errors.

    3 votes

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