Chapter 4. Tibero 7.2.1

Table of Contents

4.1. New Features
4.1.1. DBMS Engine
4.1.2. Utilities
4.2. Updated Features
4.2.1. DBMS Engine
4.2.2. Utilities

This chapter briefly describes newly added and updated features in Tibero 7.2.1.

4.1. New Features

This section lists and briefly describes newly added features.

4.1.1. DBMS Engine

The following features have been added.

  • TAC(Tibero Active Cluster)

    • Replaceable online undo tablespaces

      Enables the replacement of undo tablespaces during online operations in TAC environment.

  • TSC(Tibero Standby Cluster)

    • Zero-downtime standby

      Enables the creation of a standby database only using archive log files without requiring a backup of the online redo log files and disruption to the primary database.

    • Forcible synchronization with standby

      Clears different logs without returning the original primary database to its primary status, brings the data block images, accessed by the logs, from the new primary database (originally the standby), and forcibly synchronizes them to ensure that the original primary database is reverted to the standby status.

    • Replaceable online undo tablespaces

      Enables the replacement of undo tablespaces during online operations in TSC environment.

    • Limiting primary IP addresses connected to standby

      Limits the primary IP addresses allowed to connect to the standby database.

  • Collecting Statistics

    • [ DBA | ALL | USER ]_TAB_MODIFICATIONS

      Added a view to display row modifications in the table through DML operations since the last statistics collection.

    • [ DBA | ALL | USER ]_TAB_STATISTICS

      Added a view to display statistics for the table.

    • GRANULARITY option

      Added the GRANULARITY option for collecting DATABASE, DICTIONARY, SCHEMA, and INDEX statistics.

      Added a feature to collect statistics for a specified subpartition when gathering table statistics.

    • Improved performance of statistics collection

      Added a feature to use TEMPORARY TABLE to collect statistics.

  • System Package

    • DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE

      Added the package to enable parallel updates to a table.

    • DBMS_XMLDOM

      Supports the DBMS_XMLDOM package on Solaris 5.11.

  • TAS

    • Added the begin and end backup feature in TAS to ensure compatibility of TAS meta files.

  • Frame

    • Added the feature to clean up the sessions with active transactions when no client requests are received during a specific time period.

4.1.2. Utilities

The following features have been added.

  • tbImport

    • Added the option to set INDEX PARALLEL DEGREE when using the tbImport utility.

4.2. Updated Features

This section lists and briefly describes modifies and improved key features.

4.2.1. DBMS Engine

The following features have been improved.

  • Data Definition Language (DDL)

    • Improved the performance of parallel index building.

    • Improved handling of deadlocks and race conditions between sessions.

    • Improved performance when using sequences in large quantities.

    • Improved usability by saving unusable index space.

    • Added the UPDATE GLOBAL INDEXES feature.

  • Optimizer

    • Enabled the INDEX SKIP SCAN feature when using the LIKE condition.

    • Improved the performance of the JOIN plan.

  • Executor

    • Improved block sampling when performing TABLE FULL SCAN.

    • Improved performance by performing TABLE FULL SCAN in the PGA for tables larger than a specific threshold.

  • CONTEXT INDEX

    • Improved the creation of CONTEXT INDEX.

    • Improved search performance using CONTEXT INDEX.

  • Buffer Cache

    • Improved handling of contention for buffer cache buckets.

  • TAC(Tibero Active Cluster)

    • Improved handling of resource race conditions in a TAC environment.

    • Improved FULL SCAN performance in a TAC environment.

    • Stabilized the message processing logic between instances in a TAC environment.

  • TSC(Tibero Standby Cluster)

    • Enables ASYNC LNW to send log referring to LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST.

  • TAS

    • Improved TAC resynchronization to allow a new TAC instance to boot immediately, without waiting for resyncronization to complete.

    • Modified to skip rebalancing as needed when performing DISK ADD in a TAS environment with external redundancy diskspace.

    • Improved functionality and stability of TBASCMD.

  • Controlfile

    • Improved the stability of input/output logic related to control files.

  • TPR

    • Added the SQL ID to each query information in the TPR report.

  • Label Security

    • Changes the Label Security system user from SYS to LBACSYS.

    • Added or improved the following packages and procedures.

      • SA_POLICY_ADMIN

      • SA_USER_ADMIN

      • SA_AUDIT_ADMIN

4.2.2. Utilities

The following features have been improved.

  • tbSQL0

    • Expands the range of the SET INTERVAL from natural numbers to values with up to three decimal places.

    • Added COUNT to the LOOP command to specify the number of iteration for a loop statement.