Compute release 2025-02-27

2026-05-16 20:50:37 +00:00 · 2025-02-27 00:17:58 +00:00
685 changed files with 11052 additions and 26583 deletions
--- a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/release-pr.md
+++ b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/release-pr.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+## Release 202Y-MM-DD
+
+**NB: this PR must be merged only by 'Create a merge commit'!**
+
+### Checklist when preparing for release
+- [ ] Read or refresh [the release flow guide](https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/Release-general-flow-61f2e39fd45d4d14a70c7749604bd70b)
+- [ ] Ask in the [cloud Slack channel](https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033A2WE6BZ) that you are going to rollout the release. Any blockers?
+- [ ] Does this release contain any db migrations? Destructive ones? What is the rollback plan?
+
+<!-- List everything that should be done **before** release, any issues / setting changes / etc -->
+
+### Checklist after release
+- [ ] Make sure instructions from PRs included in this release and labeled `manual_release_instructions` are executed (either by you or by people who wrote them).
+- [ ] Based on the merged commits write release notes and open a PR into `website` repo ([example](https://github.com/neondatabase/website/pull/219/files))
+- [ ] Check [#dev-production-stream](https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C03F5SM1N02) Slack channel
+- [ ] Check [stuck projects page](https://console.neon.tech/admin/projects?sort=last_active&order=desc&stuck=true)
+- [ ] Check [recent operation failures](https://console.neon.tech/admin/operations?action=create_timeline%2Cstart_compute%2Cstop_compute%2Csuspend_compute%2Capply_config%2Cdelete_timeline%2Cdelete_tenant%2Ccreate_branch%2Ccheck_availability&sort=updated_at&order=desc&had_retries=some)
+- [ ] Check [cloud SLO dashboard](https://neonprod.grafana.net/d/_oWcBMJ7k/cloud-slos?orgId=1)
+- [ ] Check [compute startup metrics dashboard](https://neonprod.grafana.net/d/5OkYJEmVz/compute-startup-time)
+
+<!-- List everything that should be done **after** release, any admin UI configuration / Grafana dashboard / alert changes / setting changes / etc -->
--- a/.github/actionlint.yml
+++ b/.github/actionlint.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ self-hosted-runner:
    - small-arm64
    - us-east-2
 config-variables:
-  - AWS_ECR_REGION
  - AZURE_DEV_CLIENT_ID
  - AZURE_DEV_REGISTRY_NAME
  - AZURE_DEV_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
@@ -16,25 +15,20 @@ config-variables:
  - AZURE_PROD_REGISTRY_NAME
  - AZURE_PROD_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
  - AZURE_TENANT_ID
-  - BENCHMARK_INGEST_TARGET_PROJECTID
-  - BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_PROJECTID
  - BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_PUB
  - BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_SUB
-  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN
-  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN
-  - HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET
-  - HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT
-  - HETZNER_CACHE_REGION
-  - NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
-  - NEON_PROD_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
-  - PGREGRESS_PG16_PROJECT_ID
-  - PGREGRESS_PG17_PROJECT_ID
  - REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER
  - REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION
-  - SLACK_CICD_CHANNEL_ID
-  - SLACK_ON_CALL_DEVPROD_STREAM
-  - SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM
-  - SLACK_ON_CALL_STORAGE_STAGING_STREAM
-  - SLACK_RUST_CHANNEL_ID
-  - SLACK_STORAGE_CHANNEL_ID
  - SLACK_UPCOMING_RELEASE_CHANNEL_ID
+  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN
+  - BENCHMARK_INGEST_TARGET_PROJECTID
+  - PGREGRESS_PG16_PROJECT_ID
+  - PGREGRESS_PG17_PROJECT_ID
+  - SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM
+  - DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN
+  - SLACK_ON_CALL_STORAGE_STAGING_STREAM
+  - SLACK_CICD_CHANNEL_ID
+  - SLACK_STORAGE_CHANNEL_ID
+  - NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
+  - NEON_PROD_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
+  - AWS_ECR_REGION
--- a/.github/actions/neon-branch-create/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/neon-branch-create/action.yml
@@ -84,13 +84,7 @@ runs:
          --header "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}"
          )

-        role_name=$(echo "$roles" | jq --raw-output '
-          (.roles | map(select(.protected == false))) as $roles |
-          if any($roles[]; .name == "neondb_owner")
-          then "neondb_owner"
-          else $roles[0].name
-          end
-        ')
+        role_name=$(echo $roles | jq --raw-output '.roles[] | select(.protected == false) | .name')
        echo "role_name=${role_name}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
      env:
        API_HOST: ${{ inputs.api_host }}
@@ -113,13 +107,13 @@ runs:
            )

          if [ -z "${reset_password}" ]; then
-            sleep $i
+            sleep 1
            continue
          fi

          password=$(echo $reset_password | jq --raw-output '.role.password')
          if [ "${password}" == "null" ]; then
-            sleep $i # increasing backoff
+            sleep 1
            continue
          fi

--- a/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ inputs:
    description: 'Postgres version to use for tests'
    required: false
    default: 'v16'
-  sanitizers:
-    description: 'enabled or disabled'
-    required: false
-    default: 'disabled'
-    type: string
  benchmark_durations:
    description: 'benchmark durations JSON'
    required: false
@@ -64,7 +59,7 @@ runs:
      if: inputs.build_type != 'remote'
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}${{ inputs.sanitizers == 'enabled' && '-sanitized' || '' }}-artifact
+        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build_type }}-artifact
        path: /tmp/neon
        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ inputs.aws-oicd-role-arn }}

@@ -117,7 +112,6 @@ runs:
        ALLOW_FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY_BREAKAGE: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'forward compatibility breakage')
        RERUN_FAILED: ${{ inputs.rerun_failed }}
        PG_VERSION: ${{ inputs.pg_version }}
-        SANITIZERS: ${{ inputs.sanitizers }}
      shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
      run: |
        # PLATFORM will be embedded in the perf test report
--- a/.github/scripts/generate_image_maps.py
+++ b/.github/scripts/generate_image_maps.py
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 import itertools
 import json
 import os
-import sys

-source_tag = os.getenv("SOURCE_TAG")
-target_tag = os.getenv("TARGET_TAG")
-branch = os.getenv("BRANCH")
-dev_acr = os.getenv("DEV_ACR")
-prod_acr = os.getenv("PROD_ACR")
-dev_aws = os.getenv("DEV_AWS")
-prod_aws = os.getenv("PROD_AWS")
-aws_region = os.getenv("AWS_REGION")
+build_tag = os.environ["BUILD_TAG"]
+branch = os.environ["BRANCH"]
+dev_acr = os.environ["DEV_ACR"]
+prod_acr = os.environ["PROD_ACR"]
+dev_aws = os.environ["DEV_AWS"]
+prod_aws = os.environ["PROD_AWS"]
+aws_region = os.environ["AWS_REGION"]

 components = {
    "neon": ["neon"],
@@ -39,31 +37,26 @@ registries = {
    ],
 }

-release_branches = ["release", "release-proxy", "release-compute"]
-
 outputs: dict[str, dict[str, list[str]]] = {}

-target_tags = (
-    [target_tag, "latest"]
-    if branch == "main"
-    else [target_tag, "released"]
-    if branch in release_branches
-    else [target_tag]
-)
-target_stages = ["dev", "prod"] if branch in release_branches else ["dev"]
+target_tags = [build_tag, "latest"] if branch == "main" else [build_tag]
+target_stages = ["dev", "prod"] if branch.startswith("release") else ["dev"]

 for component_name, component_images in components.items():
    for stage in target_stages:
-        outputs[f"{component_name}-{stage}"] = {
-            f"ghcr.io/neondatabase/{component_image}:{source_tag}": [
-                f"{registry}/{component_image}:{tag}"
-                for registry, tag in itertools.product(registries[stage], target_tags)
-                if not (registry == "ghcr.io/neondatabase" and tag == source_tag)
+        outputs[f"{component_name}-{stage}"] = dict(
+            [
+                (
+                    f"docker.io/neondatabase/{component_image}:{build_tag}",
+                    [
+                        f"{combo[0]}/{component_image}:{combo[1]}"
+                        for combo in itertools.product(registries[stage], target_tags)
+                    ],
+                )
+                for component_image in component_images
            ]
-            for component_image in component_images
-        }
+        )

-with open(os.getenv("GITHUB_OUTPUT", "/dev/null"), "a") as f:
+with open(os.environ["GITHUB_OUTPUT"], "a") as f:
    for key, value in outputs.items():
        f.write(f"{key}={json.dumps(value)}\n")
-        print(f"Image map for {key}:\n{json.dumps(value, indent=2)}\n\n", file=sys.stderr)
--- a/.github/scripts/lint-release-pr.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/lint-release-pr.sh
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-DOCS_URL="https://docs.neon.build/overview/repositories/neon.html"
-
-message() {
-  if [[ -n "${GITHUB_PR_NUMBER:-}" ]]; then
-    gh pr comment --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" "${GITHUB_PR_NUMBER}" --edit-last --body "$1" \
-      || gh pr comment --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" "${GITHUB_PR_NUMBER}" --body "$1"
-  fi
-  echo "$1"
-}
-
-report_error() {
-  message "❌ $1
-  For more details, see the documentation: ${DOCS_URL}"
-
-  exit 1
-}
-
-case "$RELEASE_BRANCH" in
-  "release") COMPONENT="Storage" ;;
-  "release-proxy") COMPONENT="Proxy" ;;
-  "release-compute") COMPONENT="Compute" ;;
-  *)
-    report_error "Unknown release branch: ${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
-    ;;
-esac
-
-
-# Identify main and release branches
-MAIN_BRANCH="origin/main"
-REMOTE_RELEASE_BRANCH="origin/${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
-
-# Find merge base
-MERGE_BASE=$(git merge-base "${MAIN_BRANCH}" "${REMOTE_RELEASE_BRANCH}")
-echo "Merge base of ${MAIN_BRANCH} and ${RELEASE_BRANCH}: ${MERGE_BASE}"
-
-# Get the HEAD commit (last commit in PR, expected to be the merge commit)
-LAST_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-
-MERGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE=$(git log -1 --format=%s "${LAST_COMMIT}")
-EXPECTED_MESSAGE_REGEX="^$COMPONENT release [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$"
-
-if ! [[ "${MERGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" =~ ${EXPECTED_MESSAGE_REGEX} ]]; then
-  report_error "Merge commit message does not match expected pattern: '<component> release YYYY-MM-DD'
-  Expected component: ${COMPONENT}
-  Found: '${MERGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE}'"
-fi
-echo "✅ Merge commit message is correctly formatted: '${MERGE_COMMIT_MESSAGE}'"
-
-LAST_COMMIT_PARENTS=$(git cat-file -p "${LAST_COMMIT}" | jq -sR '[capture("parent (?<parent>[0-9a-f]{40})"; "g") | .parent]')
-
-if [[ "$(echo "${LAST_COMMIT_PARENTS}" | jq 'length')" -ne 2 ]]; then
-  report_error "Last commit must be a merge commit with exactly two parents"
-fi
-
-EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD=$(git rev-parse "${REMOTE_RELEASE_BRANCH}")
-if echo "${LAST_COMMIT_PARENTS}" | jq -e --arg rel "${EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD}" 'index($rel) != null' > /dev/null; then
-  LINEAR_HEAD=$(echo "${LAST_COMMIT_PARENTS}" | jq -r '[.[] | select(. != $rel)][0]' --arg rel "${EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD}")
-else
-  report_error "Last commit must merge the release branch (${RELEASE_BRANCH})"
-fi
-echo "✅ Last commit correctly merges the previous commit and the release branch"
-echo "Top commit of linear history: ${LINEAR_HEAD}"
-
-MERGE_COMMIT_TREE=$(git rev-parse "${LAST_COMMIT}^{tree}")
-LINEAR_HEAD_TREE=$(git rev-parse "${LINEAR_HEAD}^{tree}")
-
-if [[ "${MERGE_COMMIT_TREE}" != "${LINEAR_HEAD_TREE}" ]]; then
-  report_error "Tree of merge commit (${MERGE_COMMIT_TREE}) does not match tree of linear history head (${LINEAR_HEAD_TREE})
-  This indicates that the merge of ${RELEASE_BRANCH} into this branch was not performed using the merge strategy 'ours'"
-fi
-echo "✅ Merge commit tree matches the linear history head"
-
-EXPECTED_PREVIOUS_COMMIT="${LINEAR_HEAD}"
-
-# Now traverse down the history, ensuring each commit has exactly one parent
-CURRENT_COMMIT="${EXPECTED_PREVIOUS_COMMIT}"
-while [[ "${CURRENT_COMMIT}" != "${MERGE_BASE}" && "${CURRENT_COMMIT}" != "${EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD}" ]]; do
-  CURRENT_COMMIT_PARENTS=$(git cat-file -p "${CURRENT_COMMIT}" | jq -sR '[capture("parent (?<parent>[0-9a-f]{40})"; "g") | .parent]')
-
-  if [[ "$(echo "${CURRENT_COMMIT_PARENTS}" | jq 'length')" -ne 1 ]]; then
-    report_error "Commit ${CURRENT_COMMIT} must have exactly one parent"
-  fi
-
-  NEXT_COMMIT=$(echo "${CURRENT_COMMIT_PARENTS}" | jq -r '.[0]')
-
-  if [[ "${NEXT_COMMIT}" == "${MERGE_BASE}" ]]; then
-    echo "✅ Reached merge base (${MERGE_BASE})"
-    PR_BASE="${MERGE_BASE}"
-  elif [[ "${NEXT_COMMIT}" == "${EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD}" ]]; then
-    echo "✅ Reached release branch (${EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD})"
-    PR_BASE="${EXPECTED_RELEASE_HEAD}"
-  elif [[ -z "${NEXT_COMMIT}" ]]; then
-    report_error "Unexpected end of commit history before reaching merge base"
-  fi
-
-  # Move to the next commit in the chain
-  CURRENT_COMMIT="${NEXT_COMMIT}"
-done
-
-echo "✅ All commits are properly ordered and linear"
-echo "✅ Release PR structure is valid"
-
-echo
-
-message "Commits that are part of this release:
-$(git log --oneline "${PR_BASE}..${LINEAR_HEAD}")"
--- a/.github/scripts/previous-releases.jq
+++ b/.github/scripts/previous-releases.jq
@@ -17,12 +17,6 @@
 ({};
 .[$entry.component] |= (if . == null or $entry.version > .version then $entry else . end))

-# Ensure that each component exists, or fail
-| (["storage", "compute", "proxy"] - (keys)) as $missing
-| if ($missing | length) > 0 then
-    "Error: Found no release for \($missing | join(", "))!\n" | halt_error(1)
-  else . end
-
 # Convert the resulting object into an array of formatted strings
 | to_entries
 | map("\(.key)=\(.value.full)")
--- a/.github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
+++ b/.github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ import json
 import os
 import subprocess

-RED = "\033[91m"
-RESET = "\033[0m"
-
 image_map = os.getenv("IMAGE_MAP")
 if not image_map:
    raise ValueError("IMAGE_MAP environment variable is not set")
@@ -14,32 +11,12 @@ try:
 except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
    raise ValueError("Failed to parse IMAGE_MAP as JSON") from e

-failures = []
+for source, targets in parsed_image_map.items():
+    for target in targets:
+        cmd = ["docker", "buildx", "imagetools", "create", "-t", target, source]
+        print(f"Running: {' '.join(cmd)}")
+        result = subprocess.run(cmd, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

-pending = [(source, target) for source, targets in parsed_image_map.items() for target in targets]
-
-while len(pending) > 0:
-    if len(failures) > 10:
-        print("Error: more than 10 failures!")
-        for failure in failures:
-            print(f'"{failure[0]}" failed with the following output:')
-            print(failure[1])
-        raise RuntimeError("Retry limit reached.")
-
-    source, target = pending.pop(0)
-    cmd = ["docker", "buildx", "imagetools", "create", "-t", target, source]
-    print(f"Running: {' '.join(cmd)}")
-    result = subprocess.run(cmd, text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
-
-    if result.returncode != 0:
-        failures.append((" ".join(cmd), result.stdout, target))
-        pending.append((source, target))
-        print(
-            f"{RED}[RETRY]{RESET} Push failed for {target}. Retrying... (failure count: {len(failures)})"
-        )
-        print(result.stdout)
-
-if len(failures) > 0 and (github_output := os.getenv("GITHUB_OUTPUT")):
-    failed_targets = [target for _, _, target in failures]
-    with open(github_output, "a") as f:
-        f.write(f"push_failures={json.dumps(failed_targets)}\n")
+        if result.returncode != 0:
+            print(f"Error: {result.stdout}")
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Command failed: {' '.join(cmd)}")
--- a/.github/workflows/_benchmarking_preparation.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_benchmarking_preparation.yml
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  setup-databases:
    permissions:
@@ -30,18 +27,13 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-prep-connstr
      run: |
@@ -66,10 +58,10 @@ jobs:

        echo "connstr=${CONNSTR}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
@@ -37,20 +37,17 @@ env:
  RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
  COPT: '-Werror'

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  build-neon:
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
    permissions:
      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
      contents: read
    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      # Raise locked memory limit for tokio-epoll-uring.
      # On 5.10 LTS kernels < 5.10.162 (and generally mainline kernels < 5.12),
      # io_uring will account the memory of the CQ and SQ as locked.
@@ -62,12 +59,7 @@ jobs:
      BUILD_TAG: ${{ inputs.build-tag }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -128,49 +120,29 @@ jobs:

      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
        id: cache_pg_14
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v14
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
        id: cache_pg_15
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v15
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
        id: cache_pg_16
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v16
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

      - name: Cache postgres v17 build
        id: cache_pg_17
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v17
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v17_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'build-tools.Dockerfile') }}

@@ -249,7 +221,7 @@ jobs:
          fi

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-region: eu-central-1
          role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -308,7 +280,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Upload Neon artifact
        uses: ./.github/actions/upload
        with:
-          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}${{ inputs.sanitizers == 'enabled' && '-sanitized' || '' }}-artifact
+          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-artifact
          path: /tmp/neon
          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

@@ -346,24 +318,19 @@ jobs:
      contents: read
      statuses: write
    needs: [ build-neon ]
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      # for changed limits, see comments on `options:` earlier in this file
      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(format('{{"include":{0}}}', inputs.test-cfg)) }}
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -380,7 +347,6 @@ jobs:
          real_s3_region: eu-central-1
          rerun_failed: true
          pg_version: ${{ matrix.pg_version }}
-          sanitizers: ${{ inputs.sanitizers }}
          aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
          # `--session-timeout` is equal to (timeout-minutes - 10 minutes) * 60 seconds.
          # Attempt to stop tests gracefully to generate test reports
@@ -393,6 +359,7 @@ jobs:
          PAGESERVER_VIRTUAL_FILE_IO_ENGINE: tokio-epoll-uring
          PAGESERVER_GET_VECTORED_CONCURRENT_IO: sidecar-task
          USE_LFC: ${{ matrix.lfc_state == 'with-lfc' && 'true' || 'false' }}
+          SANITIZERS: ${{ inputs.sanitizers }}

      # Temporary disable this step until we figure out why it's so flaky
      # Ref https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4540
--- a/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-python.yml
@@ -12,39 +12,21 @@ defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  check-codestyle-python:
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
-
-    permissions:
-      packages: read
-
    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Cache poetry deps
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
          key: v2-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-deps-bookworm-${{ hashFiles('poetry.lock') }}

--- a/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-rust.yml
@@ -23,38 +23,25 @@ jobs:
  check-codestyle-rust:
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        arch: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.archs) }}
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'small-arm64' || 'small')) }}
-
-    permissions:
-      packages: read
+        arch: ${{ fromJson(inputs.archs) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'small-arm64' || 'small')) }}

    container:
      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

      - name: Cache cargo deps
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
            !~/.cargo/registry/src
--- a/.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ on:
        description: 'Component name'
        required: true
        type: string
-      source-branch:
-        description: 'Source branch'
+      release-branch:
+        description: 'Release branch'
        required: true
        type: string
    secrets:
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ defaults:
  run:
    shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  create-release-branch:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -31,32 +28,19 @@ jobs:
      contents: write # for `git push`

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-      with:
-        ref: ${{ inputs.source-branch }}
-        fetch-depth: 0
+        ref: main

    - name: Set variables
      id: vars
      env:
        COMPONENT_NAME: ${{ inputs.component-name }}
-        RELEASE_BRANCH: >-
-          ${{
-            false
-            || inputs.component-name == 'Storage' && 'release'
-            || inputs.component-name == 'Proxy' && 'release-proxy'
-            || inputs.component-name == 'Compute' && 'release-compute'
-          }}
+        RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.release-branch }}
      run: |
        today=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
        echo "title=${COMPONENT_NAME} release ${today}" | tee -a ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
        echo "rc-branch=rc/${RELEASE_BRANCH}/${today}"  | tee -a ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
-        echo "release-branch=${RELEASE_BRANCH}"         | tee -a ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}

    - name: Configure git
      run: |
@@ -65,36 +49,31 @@ jobs:

    - name: Create RC branch
      env:
-        RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.release-branch }}
        RC_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.rc-branch }}
        TITLE: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.title }}
      run: |
-        git switch -c "${RC_BRANCH}"
+        git checkout -b "${RC_BRANCH}"

-        # Manually create a merge commit on the current branch, keeping the
-        # tree and setting the parents to the current HEAD and the HEAD of the
-        # release branch. This commit is what we'll fast-forward the release
-        # branch to when merging the release branch.
-        # For details on why, look at
-        # https://docs.neon.build/overview/repositories/neon.html#background-on-commit-history-of-release-prs
-        current_tree=$(git rev-parse 'HEAD^{tree}')
-        release_head=$(git rev-parse "origin/${RELEASE_BRANCH}")
-        current_head=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-        merge_commit=$(git commit-tree -p "${current_head}" -p "${release_head}" -m "${TITLE}" "${current_tree}")
-
-        # Fast-forward the current branch to the newly created merge_commit
-        git merge --ff-only ${merge_commit}
+        # create an empty commit to distinguish workflow runs
+        # from other possible releases from the same commit
+        git commit --allow-empty -m "${TITLE}"

        git push origin "${RC_BRANCH}"

-    - name: Create a PR into ${{ steps.vars.outputs.release-branch }}
+    - name: Create a PR into ${{ inputs.release-branch }}
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ci-access-token }}
        RC_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.rc-branch }}
-        RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.release-branch }}
+        RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ inputs.release-branch }}
        TITLE: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.title }}
      run: |
+        cat << EOF > body.md
+          ## ${TITLE}
+
+          **Please merge this Pull Request using 'Create a merge commit' button**
+        EOF
+
        gh pr create --title "${TITLE}" \
-                     --body "" \
+                     --body-file "body.md" \
                     --head "${RC_BRANCH}" \
                     --base "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
--- a/.github/workflows/_meta.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_meta.yml
@@ -5,16 +5,10 @@ on:
      github-event-name:
        type: string
        required: true
-      github-event-json:
-        type: string
-        required: true
    outputs:
      build-tag:
        description: "Tag for the current workflow run"
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.build-tag }}
-      release-tag:
-        description: "Tag for the release if this is an RC PR run"
-        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.release-tag }}
      previous-storage-release:
        description: "Tag of the last storage release"
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.storage }}
@@ -25,41 +19,27 @@ on:
        description: "Tag of the last compute release"
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.compute }}
      run-kind:
-        description: "The kind of run we're currently in. Will be one of `push-main`, `storage-release`, `compute-release`, `proxy-release`, `storage-rc-pr`, `compute-rc-pr`,  `proxy-rc-pr`, `pr`, or `workflow-dispatch`"
+        description: "The kind of run we're currently in. Will be one of `pr-main`, `push-main`, `storage-rc`, `storage-release`, `proxy-rc`, `proxy-release`, `compute-rc`, `compute-release` or `merge_queue`"
        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.run-kind }}
-      release-pr-run-id:
-        description: "Only available if `run-kind in [storage-release, proxy-release, compute-release]`. Contains the run ID of the `Build and Test` workflow, assuming one with the current commit can be found."
-        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.release-pr-run-id }}
-      sha:
-        description: "github.event.pull_request.head.sha on release PRs, github.sha otherwise"
-        value: ${{ jobs.tags.outputs.sha }}

 permissions: {}

-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}
-
 jobs:
  tags:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    outputs:
-      build-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.build-tag }}
-      release-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.release-tag }}
+      build-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.tag }}
      compute: ${{ steps.previous-releases.outputs.compute }}
      proxy: ${{ steps.previous-releases.outputs.proxy }}
      storage: ${{ steps.previous-releases.outputs.storage }}
      run-kind: ${{ steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind }}
-      release-pr-run-id: ${{ steps.release-pr-run-id.outputs.release-pr-run-id }}
-      sha: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.sha }}
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      # Need `fetch-depth: 0` to count the number of commits in the branch
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Get run kind
        id: run-kind
@@ -71,33 +51,15 @@ jobs:
              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'push'         && github.ref_name == 'release')         && 'storage-release'
              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'push'         && github.ref_name == 'release-compute') && 'compute-release'
              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'push'         && github.ref_name == 'release-proxy')   && 'proxy-release'
+              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'pull_request' && github.base_ref == 'main')            && 'pr-main'
              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'pull_request' && github.base_ref == 'release')         && 'storage-rc-pr'
              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'pull_request' && github.base_ref == 'release-compute') && 'compute-rc-pr'
              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'pull_request' && github.base_ref == 'release-proxy')   && 'proxy-rc-pr'
-              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'pull_request')                                         && 'pr'
-              || (inputs.github-event-name == 'workflow_dispatch')                                    && 'workflow-dispatch'
              || 'unknown'
            }}
        run: |
          echo "run-kind=$RUN_KIND" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT

-      - name: Get the right SHA
-        id: sha
-        env:
-          SHA: >
-            ${{
-              contains(fromJSON('["storage-rc-pr", "proxy-rc-pr", "compute-rc-pr"]'), steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind)
-              && fromJSON(inputs.github-event-json).pull_request.head.sha
-              || github.sha
-            }}
-        run: |
-          echo "sha=$SHA" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-          ref: ${{ steps.sha.outputs.sha }}
-
      - name: Get build tag
        id: build-tag
        env:
@@ -108,38 +70,20 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          case $RUN_KIND in
          push-main)
-            echo "build-tag=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          storage-release)
-            echo "build-tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          proxy-release)
-            echo "build-tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          compute-release)
-            echo "build-tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            echo "tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
-          pr|storage-rc-pr|compute-rc-pr|proxy-rc-pr)
-            BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID=$(gh api --paginate \
-              -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-              -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
-              "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs?head_sha=${CURRENT_SHA}&branch=${CURRENT_BRANCH}" \
-              | jq '[.workflow_runs[] | select(.name == "Build and Test")][0].id // ("Error: No matching workflow run found." | halt_error(1))')
-            echo "build-tag=$BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-            case $RUN_KIND in
-            storage-rc-pr)
-              echo "release-tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            proxy-rc-pr)
-              echo "release-tag=release-proxy-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            compute-rc-pr)
-              echo "release-tag=release-compute-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-              ;;
-            esac
-            ;;
-          workflow-dispatch)
-            echo "build-tag=$GITHUB_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          pr-main|storage-rc-pr|compute-rc-pr|proxy-rc-pr)
+            BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID=$(gh run list -b $CURRENT_BRANCH -c $CURRENT_SHA -w 'Build and Test' -L 1 --json databaseId --jq '.[].databaseId')
+            echo "tag=$BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
            ;;
          *)
            echo "Unexpected RUN_KIND ('${RUN_KIND}'), failing to assign build-tag!"
@@ -157,13 +101,3 @@ jobs:
            "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/releases" \
          | jq -f .github/scripts/previous-releases.jq -r \
          | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
-
-      - name: Get the release PR run ID
-        id: release-pr-run-id
-        if: ${{ contains(fromJSON('["storage-release", "compute-release", "proxy-release"]'), steps.run-kind.outputs.run-kind) }}
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          CURRENT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
-        run: |
-          RELEASE_PR_RUN_ID=$(gh api "/repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/actions/runs?head_sha=$CURRENT_SHA" | jq '[.workflow_runs[] | select(.name == "Build and Test") | select(.head_branch | test("^rc/release(-(proxy|compute))?/[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$"; "s"))] | first | .id // ("Failed to find Build and Test run from  RC PR!" | halt_error(1))')
-          echo "release-pr-run-id=$RELEASE_PR_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
--- a/.github/workflows/_push-to-container-registry.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_push-to-container-registry.yml
@@ -49,12 +49,7 @@ jobs:
      id-token: write  # Required for aws/azure login
      packages: write  # required for pushing to GHCR
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          sparse-checkout: .github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
@@ -64,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        if: contains(inputs.image-map, 'amazonaws.com/')
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-region: "${{ inputs.aws-region }}"
          role-to-assume: "arn:aws:iam::${{ inputs.aws-account-id }}:role/${{ inputs.aws-role-to-assume }}"
@@ -72,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Login to ECR
        if: contains(inputs.image-map, 'amazonaws.com/')
-        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@062b18b96a7aff071d4dc91bc00c4c1a7945b076 # v2.0.1
+        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v2
        with:
          registries: "${{ inputs.aws-account-id }}"

@@ -91,38 +86,19 @@ jobs:

      - name: Login to GHCR
        if: contains(inputs.image-map, 'ghcr.io/')
-        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          username: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Log in to Docker Hub
-        uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

      - name: Copy docker images to target registries
-        id: push
        run: python3 .github/scripts/push_with_image_map.py
        env:
          IMAGE_MAP: ${{ inputs.image-map }}
-
-      - name: Notify Slack if container image pushing fails
-        if: steps.push.outputs.push_failures || failure()
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@485a9d42d3a73031f12ec201c457e2162c45d02d # v2.0.0
-        with:
-          method: chat.postMessage
-          token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
-          payload: |
-            channel: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_DEVPROD_STREAM }}
-            text: >
-              *Container image pushing ${{
-                steps.push.outcome == 'failure' && 'failed completely' || 'succeeded with some retries'
-              }}* in
-              <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|GitHub Run>
-
-              ${{ steps.push.outputs.push_failures && format(
-                '*Failed targets:*\n• {0}', join(fromJson(steps.push.outputs.push_failures), '\n• ')
-              ) || '' }}
--- a/.github/workflows/actionlint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/actionlint.yml
@@ -26,13 +26,8 @@ jobs:
    needs: [ check-permissions ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-      - uses: reviewdog/action-actionlint@a5524e1c19e62881d79c1f1b9b6f09f16356e281 # v1.65.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: reviewdog/action-actionlint@v1
        env:
          # SC2046 - Quote this to prevent word splitting. - https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2046
          # SC2086 - Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. - https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2086
--- a/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - run: gh pr --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" edit "${PR_NUMBER}" --remove-label "approved-for-ci-run"

  create-or-update-pr-for-ci-run:
@@ -68,14 +63,9 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - run: gh pr --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" edit "${PR_NUMBER}" --remove-label "approved-for-ci-run"

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
          token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
@@ -163,11 +153,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Close PR and delete `ci-run/pr-${{ env.PR_NUMBER }}` branch
        run: |
          CLOSED="$(gh pr --repo ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY} list --head ${BRANCH} --json 'closed' --jq '.[].closed')"
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
@@ -87,22 +87,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.RUNNER }}
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary on Azure runners
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -145,9 +140,6 @@ jobs:
          --ignore test_runner/performance/test_logical_replication.py
          --ignore test_runner/performance/test_physical_replication.py
          --ignore test_runner/performance/test_perf_ingest_using_pgcopydb.py
-          --ignore test_runner/performance/test_cumulative_statistics_persistence.py
-          --ignore test_runner/performance/test_perf_many_relations.py
-          --ignore test_runner/performance/test_perf_oltp_large_tenant.py
      env:
        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
@@ -169,7 +161,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -179,66 +171,6 @@ jobs:
      env:
        SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}

-  cumstats-test:
-    if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == 'false' || github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == null }}
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      statuses: write
-      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-    env:
-      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
-      DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 17
-      TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
-      BUILD_TYPE: remote
-      SAVE_PERF_REPORT: ${{ github.event.inputs.save_perf_report || ( github.ref_name == 'main' ) }}
-      PLATFORM: "neon-staging"
-
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
-      with:
-        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        role-duration-seconds: 18000 # 5 hours
-
-    - name: Download Neon artifact
-      uses: ./.github/actions/download
-      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
-        path: /tmp/neon/
-        prefix: latest
-        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-    
-    - name: Verify that cumulative statistics are preserved
-      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-      with:
-        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
-        test_selection: performance/test_cumulative_statistics_persistence.py
-        run_in_parallel: false
-        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 3600
-        pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-      env:
-        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
-        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
-        NEON_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-
  replication-tests:
    if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == 'false' || github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == null }}
    permissions:
@@ -255,22 +187,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -329,7 +256,7 @@ jobs:
    # Post both success and failure to the Slack channel
    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && !cancelled() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06T9AMNDQQ" # on-call-compute-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -361,18 +288,13 @@ jobs:
      tpch-compare-matrix: ${{ steps.tpch-compare-matrix.outputs.matrix }}

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Generate matrix for pgbench benchmark
      id: pgbench-compare-matrix
      run: |
        region_id_default=${{ env.DEFAULT_REGION_ID }}
        runner_default='["self-hosted", "us-east-2", "x64"]'
        runner_azure='["self-hosted", "eastus2", "x64"]'
-        image_default="ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm"
+        image_default="neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm"
        matrix='{
          "pg_version" : [
            16
@@ -388,18 +310,18 @@ jobs:
          "db_size": [ "10gb" ],
          "runner": ['"$runner_default"'],
          "image": [ "'"$image_default"'" ],
-          "include": [{ "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-sharding-reuse", "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               },
-                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'"                               }]
+          "include": [{ "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_azure"',   "image": "neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-sharding-reuse", "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb" ,"runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables","db_size": "10gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" },
+                      { "pg_version": 17, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb","runner": '"$runner_default"', "image": "'"$image_default"'" }]
        }'

        if [ "$(date +%A)" = "Saturday" ] || [ ${RUN_AWS_RDS_AND_AURORA} = "true" ]; then
@@ -461,7 +383,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.pgbench-compare-matrix)}}
+      matrix: ${{fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.pgbench-compare-matrix)}}

    env:
      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "60m"
@@ -477,23 +399,18 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ matrix.image }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    # Increase timeout to 8h, default timeout is 6h
    timeout-minutes: 480

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -508,7 +425,7 @@ jobs:
        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}

    - name: Create Neon Project
-      if: contains(fromJSON('["neonvm-captest-new", "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables", "neonvm-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-new"]'), matrix.platform)
+      if: contains(fromJson('["neonvm-captest-new", "neonvm-captest-new-many-tables", "neonvm-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-new"]'), matrix.platform)
      id: create-neon-project
      uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-create
      with:
@@ -548,7 +465,7 @@ jobs:
    # without (neonvm-captest-new)
    # and with (neonvm-captest-new-many-tables) many relations in the database
    - name: Create many relations before the run
-      if: contains(fromJSON('["neonvm-captest-new-many-tables"]'), matrix.platform)
+      if: contains(fromJson('["neonvm-captest-new-many-tables"]'), matrix.platform)
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
      with:
        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
@@ -625,7 +542,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -667,22 +584,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.RUNNER }}
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -756,7 +668,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -783,7 +695,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}

    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
@@ -797,10 +709,10 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    # Increase timeout to 12h, default timeout is 6h
@@ -808,15 +720,10 @@ jobs:
    timeout-minutes: 720

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -889,7 +796,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -915,7 +822,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.tpch-compare-matrix) }}
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.tpch-compare-matrix) }}

    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
@@ -927,22 +834,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -1019,7 +921,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
@@ -1039,7 +941,7 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
-      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}
+      matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrices.outputs.olap-compare-matrix) }}

    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
@@ -1051,22 +953,17 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -1136,7 +1033,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on:
        value: ${{ jobs.check-image.outputs.tag }}
      image:
        description: "build-tools image"
-        value: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ jobs.check-image.outputs.tag }}
+        value: neondatabase/build-tools:${{ jobs.check-image.outputs.tag }}

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -49,22 +49,8 @@ jobs:
      everything: ${{ steps.set-more-variables.outputs.everything }}
      found: ${{ steps.set-more-variables.outputs.found }}

-    permissions:
-      packages: read
-
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set variables
        id: set-variables
@@ -84,12 +70,12 @@ jobs:
        env:
          IMAGE_TAG: ${{ steps.set-variables.outputs.image-tag }}
          EVERYTHING: |
-            ${{ contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'x64') &&
-                contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'arm64') &&
-                contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bullseye') &&
-                contains(fromJSON(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bookworm') }}
+            ${{ contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'x64') &&
+                contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.archs), 'arm64') &&
+                contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bullseye') &&
+                contains(fromJson(steps.set-variables.outputs.debians), 'bookworm') }}
        run: |
-          if docker manifest inspect ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}; then
+          if docker manifest inspect neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}; then
            found=true
          else
            found=false
@@ -104,45 +90,31 @@ jobs:

    strategy:
      matrix:
-        arch: ${{ fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.archs) }}
-        debian: ${{ fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.debians) }}
+        arch: ${{ fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.archs) }}
+        debian: ${{ fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.debians) }}

-    permissions:
-      packages: write
-
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/set-docker-config-dir@6094485bf440001c94a94a3f9e221e81ff6b6193
-      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@b5ca514318bd6ebac0fb2aedd5d36ec1b5c232a2 # v3.10.0
+      - uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
        with:
          cache-binary: false

-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          registry: cache.neon.build
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/build-push-action@471d1dc4e07e5cdedd4c2171150001c434f0b7a4 # v6.15.0
+      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
        with:
          file: build-tools.Dockerfile
          context: .
@@ -154,49 +126,35 @@ jobs:
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/build-tools:cache-${{ matrix.debian }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/build-tools:cache-{0}-{1},mode=max', matrix.debian, matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
-            ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ needs.check-image.outputs.tag }}-${{ matrix.debian }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
+            neondatabase/build-tools:${{ needs.check-image.outputs.tag }}-${{ matrix.debian }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

  merge-images:
    needs: [ check-image, build-image ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

-    permissions:
-      packages: write
-
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
+      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@74a5d142397b4f367a81961eba4e8cd7edddf772 # v3.4.0
-        with:
-          registry: ghcr.io
-          username: ${{ github.actor }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-
      - name: Create multi-arch image
        env:
          DEFAULT_DEBIAN_VERSION: bookworm
-          ARCHS: ${{ join(fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.archs), ' ') }}
-          DEBIANS: ${{ join(fromJSON(needs.check-image.outputs.debians), ' ') }}
+          ARCHS: ${{ join(fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.archs), ' ') }}
+          DEBIANS: ${{ join(fromJson(needs.check-image.outputs.debians), ' ') }}
          EVERYTHING: ${{ needs.check-image.outputs.everything }}
          IMAGE_TAG: ${{ needs.check-image.outputs.tag }}
        run: |
          for debian in ${DEBIANS}; do
-            tags=("-t" "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}")
+            tags=("-t" "neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}")

            if [ "${EVERYTHING}" == "true" ] && [ "${debian}" == "${DEFAULT_DEBIAN_VERSION}" ]; then
-              tags+=("-t" "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}")
+              tags+=("-t" "neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}")
            fi

            for arch in ${ARCHS}; do
-              tags+=("ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}-${arch}")
+              tags+=("neondatabase/build-tools:${IMAGE_TAG}-${debian}-${arch}")
            done

            docker buildx imagetools create "${tags[@]}"
--- a/.github/workflows/build-macos.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-macos.yml
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ env:
 # - You can connect up to four levels of workflows
 # - You can call a maximum of 20 unique reusable workflows from a single workflow file.
 # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/sharing-automations/reusing-workflows#limitations
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  build-pgxn:
    if: |
@@ -43,19 +40,14 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: macos-15
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        postgres-version: ${{ inputs.rebuild_everything && fromJSON('["v14", "v15", "v16", "v17"]') || fromJSON(inputs.pg_versions) }}
+        postgres-version: ${{ inputs.rebuild_everything && fromJson('["v14", "v15", "v16", "v17"]') || fromJSON(inputs.pg_versions) }}
    env:
      # Use release build only, to have less debug info around
      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
      BUILD_TYPE: release
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout main repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set pg ${{ matrix.postgres-version }} for caching
        id: pg_rev
@@ -63,13 +55,8 @@ jobs:

      - name: Cache postgres ${{ matrix.postgres-version }} build
        id: cache_pg
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/${{ matrix.postgres-version }}
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-${{ matrix.postgres-version }}-${{ steps.pg_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

@@ -120,13 +107,8 @@ jobs:
      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
      BUILD_TYPE: release
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout main repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set pg v17 for caching
        id: pg_rev
@@ -134,25 +116,15 @@ jobs:

      - name: Cache postgres v17 build
        id: cache_pg
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v17
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

      - name: Cache walproposer-lib
        id: cache_walproposer_lib
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/build/walproposer-lib
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-walproposer_lib-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

@@ -193,13 +165,8 @@ jobs:
      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
      BUILD_TYPE: release
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout main repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -218,57 +185,32 @@ jobs:

      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
        id: cache_pg
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v14
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v14-${{ steps.pg_rev_v14.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
        id: cache_pg_v15
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v15
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v15-${{ steps.pg_rev_v15.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
        id: cache_pg_v16
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v16
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v16-${{ steps.pg_rev_v16.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
      - name: Cache postgres v17 build
        id: cache_pg_v17
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/v17
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev_v17.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

      - name: Cache cargo deps (only for v17)
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/registry
            !~/.cargo/registry/src
@@ -278,13 +220,8 @@ jobs:

      - name: Cache walproposer-lib
        id: cache_walproposer_lib
-        uses: tespkg/actions-cache@b7bf5fcc2f98a52ac6080eb0fd282c2f752074b1  # v1.8.0
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
-          endpoint: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_REGION }}.${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_ENDPOINT }}
-          bucket: ${{ vars.HETZNER_CACHE_BUCKET }}
-          accessKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          secretKey: ${{ secrets.HETZNER_CACHE_SECRET_KEY }}
-          use-fallback: false
          path: pg_install/build/walproposer-lib
          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-walproposer_lib-v17-${{ steps.pg_rev_v17.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}

--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test_with_sanitizers.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test_with_sanitizers.yml
@@ -33,12 +33,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      # Need `fetch-depth: 0` to count the number of commits in the branch
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

@@ -99,17 +94,12 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Create Allure report
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
@@ -121,7 +111,7 @@ jobs:
        env:
          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}

-      - uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
+      - uses: actions/github-script@v7
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
        with:
          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
--- a/.github/workflows/cargo-deny.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cargo-deny.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ on:
        required: false
        type: string
  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 10 * * *'
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
+    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

 jobs:
  cargo-deny:
@@ -27,24 +24,16 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: [self-hosted, small]

-    permissions:
-      packages: read
-
    container:
-      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image || 'ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned' }}
+      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image || 'neondatabase/build-tools:pinned' }}
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ matrix.ref }}

@@ -56,14 +45,13 @@ jobs:

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@485a9d42d3a73031f12ec201c457e2162c45d02d # v2.0.0
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v2
        with:
          method: chat.postMessage
          token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
          payload: |
-            channel: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_DEVPROD_STREAM }}
+            channel: ${{ vars.SLACK_CICD_CHANNEL_ID }}
            text: |
              Periodic cargo-deny on ${{ matrix.ref }}: ${{ job.status }}
              <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|GitHub Run>
-              Fixing the problem should be fairly straight forward from the logs. If not, <#${{ vars.SLACK_RUST_CHANNEL_ID }}> is there to help.
-              Pinging <!subteam^S0838JPSH32|@oncall-devprod>.
+              Pinging @oncall-devprod.
--- a/.github/workflows/check-permissions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-permissions.yml
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@ jobs:
  check-permissions:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Disallow CI runs on PRs from forks
      if: |
        inputs.github-event-name  == 'pull_request' &&
--- a/.github/workflows/cleanup-caches-by-a-branch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cleanup-caches-by-a-branch.yml
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@ jobs:
  cleanup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Cleanup
        run: |
          gh extension install actions/gh-actions-cache
--- a/.github/workflows/cloud-regress.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cloud-regress.yml
@@ -37,19 +37,14 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: us-east-2
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -126,7 +121,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
        with:
          channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM }}
          slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/fast-forward.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/fast-forward.yml
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-name: Fast forward merge
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types: [labeled]
-    branches:
-      - release
-      - release-proxy
-      - release-compute
-
-jobs:
-  fast-forward:
-    if: ${{ github.event.label.name == 'fast-forward' }}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - name: Remove fast-forward label to PR
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          gh pr edit ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" --remove-label "fast-forward"
-
-      - name: Fast forwarding
-        uses: sequoia-pgp/fast-forward@ea7628bedcb0b0b96e94383ada458d812fca4979
-        # See https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/enums#mergestatestatus
-        if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state  == 'clean' }}
-        with:
-          merge: true
-          comment: on-error
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-
-      - name: Comment if mergeable_state is not clean
-        if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state  != 'clean' }}
-        run: |
-          gh pr comment ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} \
-            --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" \
-            --body "Not trying to forward pull-request, because \`mergeable_state\` is \`${{ github.event.pull_request.mergeable_state }}\`, not \`clean\`."
--- a/.github/workflows/force-test-extensions-upgrade.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/force-test-extensions-upgrade.yml
@@ -34,12 +34,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: small

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: false

@@ -55,11 +50,10 @@ jobs:
          echo tag=${tag} >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}

      - name: Test extension upgrade
-        timeout-minutes: 60
+        timeout-minutes: 20
        env:
-          NEW_COMPUTE_TAG: latest
-          OLD_COMPUTE_TAG: ${{ steps.get-last-compute-release-tag.outputs.tag }}
-          TEST_EXTENSIONS_TAG: ${{ steps.get-last-compute-release-tag.outputs.tag }}
+          NEWTAG: latest
+          OLDTAG: ${{ steps.get-last-compute-release-tag.outputs.tag }}
          PG_VERSION: ${{ matrix.pg-version }}
          FORCE_ALL_UPGRADE_TESTS: true
        run: ./docker-compose/test_extensions_upgrade.sh
@@ -72,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Post to the Slack channel
        if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
        with:
          channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_ON_CALL_QA_STAGING_STREAM }}
          slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/ingest_benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ingest_benchmark.yml
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ concurrency:
  group: ingest-bench-workflow
  cancel-in-progress: true

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  ingest:
    strategy:
@@ -70,23 +67,18 @@ jobs:
      PGCOPYDB_LIB_PATH: /pgcopydb/lib
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init
    timeout-minutes: 1440

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary to download artefacts
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/label-for-external-users.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/label-for-external-users.yml
@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ jobs:
      is-member: ${{ steps.check-user.outputs.is-member }}

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Check whether `${{ github.actor }}` is a member of `${{ github.repository_owner }}`
      id: check-user
      env:
@@ -74,11 +69,6 @@ jobs:
      issues: write        # for `gh issue edit`

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Add `${{ env.LABEL }}` label
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/large_oltp_benchmark.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/large_oltp_benchmark.yml
@@ -1,194 +0,0 @@
-name: large oltp benchmark
-
-on:
-  # uncomment to run on push for debugging your PR
-  #push:
-  #  branches: [ bodobolero/synthetic_oltp_workload ]
-
-  schedule:
-    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #          ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #          │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #          │ │  ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #          │ │  │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #          │ │  │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron:   '0 15 * * 0,2,4' # run on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday at 3 PM UTC
-  workflow_dispatch: # adds ability to run this manually
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-concurrency:
-  # Allow only one workflow globally because we need dedicated resources which only exist once
-  group: large-oltp-bench-workflow
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  oltp:
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false # allow other variants to continue even if one fails
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - target: new_branch 
-            custom_scripts: insert_webhooks.sql@200 select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@300 select_recent_webhook.sql@397 select_prefetch_webhook.sql@3 IUD_one_transaction.sql@100
-          - target: reuse_branch 
-            custom_scripts: insert_webhooks.sql@200 select_any_webhook_with_skew.sql@300 select_recent_webhook.sql@397 select_prefetch_webhook.sql@3 IUD_one_transaction.sql@100
-      max-parallel: 1 # we want to run each stripe size sequentially to be able to compare the results
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      statuses: write
-      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
-    env:
-      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "1h" # todo update to > 1 h 
-      TEST_PGBENCH_CUSTOM_SCRIPTS: ${{ matrix.custom_scripts }}
-      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
-      PG_VERSION: 16 # pre-determined by pre-determined project
-      TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
-      BUILD_TYPE: remote
-      PLATFORM: ${{ matrix.target }}
-
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]
-    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      options: --init
-
-    # Increase timeout to 2 days, default timeout is 6h - database maintenance can take a long time
-    # (normally 1h pgbench, 3h vacuum analyze 3.5h re-index) x 2 = 15h, leave some buffer for regressions
-    # in one run vacuum didn't finish within 12 hours
-    timeout-minutes: 2880
-
-    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-    - name: Configure AWS credentials # necessary to download artefacts
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
-      with:
-        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        role-duration-seconds: 18000 # 5 hours is currently max associated with IAM role
-
-    - name: Download Neon artifact
-      uses: ./.github/actions/download
-      with:
-        name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
-        path: /tmp/neon/
-        prefix: latest
-        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-
-    - name: Create Neon Branch for large tenant
-      if: ${{ matrix.target == 'new_branch' }}
-      id: create-neon-branch-oltp-target
-      uses: ./.github/actions/neon-branch-create
-      with:
-          project_id: ${{ vars.BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_PROJECTID }}
-          api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-
-    - name: Set up Connection String
-      id: set-up-connstr
-      run: |
-        case "${{ matrix.target }}" in
-          new_branch)
-          CONNSTR=${{ steps.create-neon-branch-oltp-target.outputs.dsn }}
-          ;;
-          reuse_branch)
-          CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_REUSE_CONNSTR }}
-          ;;
-          *)
-          echo >&2 "Unknown target=${{ matrix.target }}"
-          exit 1
-          ;;
-        esac
-
-        CONNSTR_WITHOUT_POOLER="${CONNSTR//-pooler/}"
-
-        echo "connstr=${CONNSTR}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-        echo "connstr_without_pooler=${CONNSTR_WITHOUT_POOLER}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-    - name: Delete rows from prior runs in reuse branch
-      if: ${{ matrix.target == 'reuse_branch' }}
-      env:
-          BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr_without_pooler }}
-          PG_CONFIG: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/bin/pg_config
-          PSQL: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/bin/psql
-          PG_16_LIB_PATH: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/lib
-      run: |
-        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Deleting rows in table webhook.incoming_webhooks from prior runs"
-        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PG_16_LIB_PATH}
-        ${PSQL} "${BENCHMARK_CONNSTR}" -c "SET statement_timeout = 0; DELETE FROM webhook.incoming_webhooks WHERE created_at > '2025-02-27 23:59:59+00';"
-        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Finished deleting rows in table webhook.incoming_webhooks from prior runs"
-
-    - name: Benchmark pgbench with custom-scripts 
-      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-      with:
-        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
-        test_selection: performance
-        run_in_parallel: false
-        save_perf_report: true
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 7200 -k test_perf_oltp_large_tenant_pgbench
-        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-      env:
-        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr }}
-        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
-        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
-
-    - name: Benchmark database maintenance
-      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-      with:
-        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
-        test_selection: performance
-        run_in_parallel: false
-        save_perf_report: true
-        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 172800 -k test_perf_oltp_large_tenant_maintenance
-        pg_version: ${{ env.PG_VERSION }}
-        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-      env:
-        BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.set-up-connstr.outputs.connstr_without_pooler }}
-        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
-        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
-
-    - name: Delete Neon Branch for large tenant
-      if: ${{ always() && matrix.target == 'new_branch' }}
-      uses: ./.github/actions/neon-branch-delete
-      with:
-        project_id: ${{ vars.BENCHMARK_LARGE_OLTP_PROJECTID }}
-        branch_id: ${{ steps.create-neon-branch-oltp-target.outputs.branch_id }}
-        api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-
-    - name: Configure AWS credentials # again because prior steps could have exceeded 5 hours
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
-      with:
-        aws-region: eu-central-1
-        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-        role-duration-seconds: 18000 # 5 hours
-
-    - name: Create Allure report
-      id: create-allure-report
-      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-      uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
-      with:
-        aws-oicd-role-arn: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
-  
-    - name: Post to a Slack channel
-      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
-      with:
-        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
-        slack-message: |
-          Periodic large oltp perf testing: ${{ job.status }}
-          <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|GitHub Run>
-          <${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}|Allure report>
-      env:
-        SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/lint-release-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint-release-pr.yml
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-name: Lint Release PR
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - release
-      - release-proxy
-      - release-compute
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  lint-release-pr:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - name: Checkout PR branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0  # Fetch full history for git operations
-          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}
-
-      - name: Run lint script
-        env:
-          RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ github.base_ref }}
-        run: |
-          ./.github/scripts/lint-release-pr.sh
--- a/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
@@ -42,13 +42,8 @@ jobs:
      rebuild_everything: ${{ steps.files_changed.outputs.rebuild_neon_extra || steps.files_changed.outputs.rebuild_macos }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -76,8 +71,8 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-macos.yml
    with:
      pg_versions: ${{ needs.files-changed.outputs.postgres_changes }}
-      rebuild_rust_code: ${{ fromJSON(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_rust_code) }}
-      rebuild_everything: ${{ fromJSON(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_everything) }}
+      rebuild_rust_code: ${{ fromJson(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_rust_code) }}
+      rebuild_everything: ${{ fromJson(needs.files-changed.outputs.rebuild_everything) }}

  gather-rust-build-stats:
    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image, files-changed ]
@@ -95,8 +90,8 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init

    env:
@@ -106,13 +101,8 @@ jobs:
      CARGO_INCREMENTAL: 0

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          submodules: true

@@ -127,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build --all --release --timings -j$(nproc)

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-region: eu-central-1
          role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_ARN }}
@@ -144,7 +134,7 @@ jobs:
          echo "report-url=${REPORT_URL}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

      - name: Publish build stats report
-        uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        env:
          REPORT_URL: ${{ steps.upload-stats.outputs.report-url }}
          SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
--- a/.github/workflows/periodic_pagebench.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/periodic_pagebench.yml
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ name: Periodic pagebench performance test on dedicated EC2 machine in eu-central
 on:
  schedule:
    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
-    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
-    #        │   ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
-    #        │   │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
-    #        │   │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
-    #        │   │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
-    - cron: '0 */3 * * *' # Runs every 3 hours
+    #          ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+    #          │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+    #          │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+    #          │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
+    #          │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
+    - cron:  '0 18 * * *' # Runs at 6 PM UTC every day
  workflow_dispatch: # Allows manual triggering of the workflow
    inputs:
      commit_hash:
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}
  cancel-in-progress: false

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  trigger_bench_on_ec2_machine_in_eu_central_1:
    permissions:
@@ -37,10 +34,10 @@ jobs:
      pull-requests: write
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small ]
    container:
-      image: ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
+      image: neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init
    timeout-minutes: 360  # Set the timeout to 6 hours
    env:
@@ -51,18 +48,13 @@ jobs:
    steps:
    # we don't need the neon source code because we run everything remotely
    # however we still need the local github actions to run the allure step below
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Show my own (github runner) external IP address - usefull for IP allowlisting
      run: curl https://ifconfig.me

    - name: Assume AWS OIDC role that allows to manage (start/stop/describe... EC machine)
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN }}
@@ -86,10 +78,8 @@ jobs:
      run: |
        if [ -z "$INPUT_COMMIT_HASH" ]; then
          echo "COMMIT_HASH=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/neondatabase/neon/commits/main | jq -r '.sha')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "COMMIT_HASH_TYPE=latest" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        else
          echo "COMMIT_HASH=$INPUT_COMMIT_HASH" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-          echo "COMMIT_HASH_TYPE=manual" >> $GITHUB_ENV
        fi

    - name: Start Bench with run_id
@@ -99,7 +89,7 @@ jobs:
        -H 'accept: application/json' \
        -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-        -d "{\"neonRepoCommitHash\": \"${COMMIT_HASH}\", \"neonRepoCommitHashType\": \"${COMMIT_HASH_TYPE}\"}"
+        -d "{\"neonRepoCommitHash\": \"${COMMIT_HASH}\"}"

    - name: Poll Test Status
      id: poll_step
@@ -151,7 +141,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: ${{ github.event.schedule && failure() }}
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: "Periodic pagebench testing on dedicated hardware: ${{ job.status }}\n${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}"
@@ -169,7 +159,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Assume AWS OIDC role that allows to manage (start/stop/describe... EC machine)
      if: always() && steps.poll_step.outputs.too_many_runs != 'true'
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@e3dd6a429d7300a6a4c196c26e071d42e0343502 # v4.0.2
+      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
      with:
        aws-region: eu-central-1
        role-to-assume: ${{ vars.DEV_AWS_OIDC_ROLE_MANAGE_BENCHMARK_EC2_VMS_ARN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init --user root
    services:
      clickhouse:
@@ -88,12 +88,7 @@ jobs:
        ports:
          - 8083:8083
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Download Neon artifact
        uses: ./.github/actions/download
@@ -143,7 +138,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        if: github.event.schedule && failure()
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
        with:
          channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
          slack-message: |
@@ -158,17 +153,12 @@ jobs:
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}-bookworm
      credentials:
-        username: ${{ github.actor }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init --user root

    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
-    - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Download Neon artifact
      uses: ./.github/actions/download
@@ -216,7 +206,7 @@ jobs:

    - name: Post to a Slack channel
      if: github.event.schedule && failure()
-      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@fcfb566f8b0aab22203f066d80ca1d7e4b5d05b3 # v1.27.1
+      uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
      with:
        channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
        slack-message: |
--- a/.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -40,19 +40,14 @@ jobs:
      skip: ${{ steps.check-manifests.outputs.skip }}

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Check if we really need to pin the image
        id: check-manifests
        env:
          FROM_TAG: ${{ inputs.from-tag }}
          TO_TAG: pinned
        run: |
-          docker manifest inspect "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${FROM_TAG}" > "${FROM_TAG}.json"
-          docker manifest inspect "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${TO_TAG}"   > "${TO_TAG}.json"
+          docker manifest inspect "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${FROM_TAG}" > "${FROM_TAG}.json"
+          docker manifest inspect "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${TO_TAG}"   > "${TO_TAG}.json"

          if diff "${FROM_TAG}.json" "${TO_TAG}.json"; then
            skip=true
@@ -76,13 +71,13 @@ jobs:
    with:
      image-map: |
        {
-          "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bullseye": [
+          "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bullseye": [
            "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bullseye",
            "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bullseye",
            "${{ vars.NEON_DEV_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID }}.dkr.ecr.${{ vars.AWS_ECR_REGION }}.amazonaws.com/build-tools:pinned-bullseye",
            "${{ vars.AZURE_DEV_REGISTRY_NAME }}.azurecr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bullseye"
          ],
-          "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bookworm": [
+          "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.from-tag }}-bookworm": [
            "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm",
            "docker.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned",
            "ghcr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:pinned-bookworm",
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-merge-checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-merge-checks.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ on:
      - .github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
      - .github/workflows/pre-merge-checks.yml
  merge_group:
+    branches:
+      - main

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -17,24 +19,15 @@ defaults:
 permissions: {}

 jobs:
-  meta:
+  get-changed-files:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
    outputs:
      python-changed: ${{ steps.python-src.outputs.any_changed }}
      rust-changed: ${{ steps.rust-src.outputs.any_changed }}
-      branch: ${{ steps.group-metadata.outputs.branch }}
-      pr-number: ${{ steps.group-metadata.outputs.pr-number }}
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - uses: step-security/changed-files@3dbe17c78367e7d60f00d78ae6781a35be47b4a1 # v45.0.1
+      - uses: tj-actions/changed-files@4edd678ac3f81e2dc578756871e4d00c19191daf # v45.0.4
        id: python-src
        with:
          files: |
@@ -45,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
            poetry.lock
            pyproject.toml

-      - uses: step-security/changed-files@3dbe17c78367e7d60f00d78ae6781a35be47b4a1 # v45.0.1
+      - uses: tj-actions/changed-files@4edd678ac3f81e2dc578756871e4d00c19191daf # v45.0.4
        id: rust-src
        with:
          files: |
@@ -65,23 +58,12 @@ jobs:
          echo "${PYTHON_CHANGED_FILES}"
          echo "${RUST_CHANGED_FILES}"

-      - name: Merge group metadata
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'merge_group' }}
-        id: group-metadata
-        env:
-          MERGE_QUEUE_REF: ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_ref }}
-        run: |
-          echo $MERGE_QUEUE_REF | jq -Rr 'capture("refs/heads/gh-readonly-queue/(?<branch>.*)/pr-(?<pr_number>[0-9]+)-[0-9a-f]{40}") | ["branch=" + .branch, "pr-number=" + .pr_number] | .[]' | tee -a "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
-
  build-build-tools-image:
    if: |
      false
-      || needs.meta.outputs.python-changed == 'true'
-      || needs.meta.outputs.rust-changed == 'true'
-    needs: [ meta ]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: write
+      || needs.get-changed-files.outputs.python-changed == 'true'
+      || needs.get-changed-files.outputs.rust-changed == 'true'
+    needs: [ get-changed-files ]
    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
    with:
      # Build only one combination to save time
@@ -90,11 +72,8 @@ jobs:
    secrets: inherit

  check-codestyle-python:
-    if: needs.meta.outputs.python-changed == 'true'
-    needs: [ meta, build-build-tools-image ]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: read
+    if: needs.get-changed-files.outputs.python-changed == 'true'
+    needs: [ get-changed-files, build-build-tools-image ]
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-python.yml
    with:
      # `-bookworm-x64` suffix should match the combination in `build-build-tools-image`
@@ -102,11 +81,8 @@ jobs:
    secrets: inherit

  check-codestyle-rust:
-    if: needs.meta.outputs.rust-changed == 'true'
-    needs: [ meta, build-build-tools-image ]
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      packages: read
+    if: needs.get-changed-files.outputs.rust-changed == 'true'
+    needs: [ get-changed-files, build-build-tools-image ]
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_check-codestyle-rust.yml
    with:
      # `-bookworm-x64` suffix should match the combination in `build-build-tools-image`
@@ -125,18 +101,13 @@ jobs:
      statuses: write # for `github.repos.createCommitStatus(...)`
      contents: write
    needs:
-      - meta
+      - get-changed-files
      - check-codestyle-python
      - check-codestyle-rust
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Create fake `neon-cloud-e2e` check
-        uses: actions/github-script@60a0d83039c74a4aee543508d2ffcb1c3799cdea # v7.0.1
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        with:
          # Retry script for 5XX server errors: https://github.com/actions/github-script#retries
          retries: 5
@@ -158,20 +129,7 @@ jobs:
        run: exit 1
        if: |
          false
-          || (github.event_name == 'merge_group' && needs.meta.outputs.branch != 'main')
-          || (needs.check-codestyle-python.result == 'skipped' && needs.meta.outputs.python-changed == 'true')
-          || (needs.check-codestyle-rust.result   == 'skipped' && needs.meta.outputs.rust-changed   == 'true')
+          || (needs.check-codestyle-python.result == 'skipped' && needs.get-changed-files.outputs.python-changed == 'true')
+          || (needs.check-codestyle-rust.result   == 'skipped' && needs.get-changed-files.outputs.rust-changed   == 'true')
          || contains(needs.*.result, 'failure')
          || contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled')
-
-      - name: Add fast-forward label to PR to trigger fast-forward merge
-        if: >-
-          ${{
-            always()
-            && github.event_name == 'merge_group'
-            && contains(fromJSON('["release", "release-proxy", "release-compute"]'), needs.meta.outputs.branch)
-          }}
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-        run: >-
-          gh pr edit ${{ needs.meta.outputs.pr-number }} --repo "${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}" --add-label "fast-forward"
--- a/.github/workflows/regenerate-pg-setting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/regenerate-pg-setting.yml
@@ -23,13 +23,8 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Add comment
-        uses: thollander/actions-comment-pull-request@65f9e5c9a1f2cd378bd74b2e057c9736982a8e74 # v3
+        uses: thollander/actions-comment-pull-request@v3
        with:
          comment-tag: ${{ github.job }}
          pr-number: ${{ github.event.number }}
--- a/.github/workflows/release-notify.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-notify.yml
@@ -22,12 +22,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
-      - uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/release-pr-notify@483a843f2a8bcfbdc4c69d27630528a3ddc4e14b # main
+      - uses: neondatabase/dev-actions/release-pr-notify@main
        with:
          slack-token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
          slack-channel-id: ${{ vars.SLACK_UPCOMING_RELEASE_CHANNEL_ID || 'C05QQ9J1BRC' }} # if not set, then `#test-release-notifications`
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: Create Release Branch
 on:
  schedule:
    # It should be kept in sync with if-condition in jobs
-    - cron: '0 6 * * TUE' # Proxy release
+    - cron: '0 6 * * THU' # Proxy release
    - cron: '0 6 * * FRI' # Storage release
    - cron: '0 7 * * FRI' # Compute release
  workflow_dispatch:
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
    with:
      component-name: 'Storage'
-      source-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+      release-branch: 'release'
    secrets:
      ci-access-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

  create-proxy-release-branch:
-    if: ${{ github.event.schedule == '0 6 * * TUE' || inputs.create-proxy-release-branch }}
+    if: ${{ github.event.schedule == '0 6 * * THU' || inputs.create-proxy-release-branch }}

    permissions:
      contents: write
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
    with:
      component-name: 'Proxy'
-      source-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+      release-branch: 'release-proxy'
    secrets:
      ci-access-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

@@ -64,6 +64,6 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_create-release-pr.yml
    with:
      component-name: 'Compute'
-      source-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}
+      release-branch: 'release-compute'
    secrets:
      ci-access-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
--- a/.github/workflows/report-workflow-stats-batch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/report-workflow-stats-batch.yml
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ on:
    - cron: '25 0 * * *'
    - cron: '25 1 * * 6'

-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
 jobs:
  gh-workflow-stats-batch-2h:
    name: GitHub Workflow Stats Batch 2 hours
@@ -17,13 +14,8 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      actions: read
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Export Workflow Run for the past 2 hours
-      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@701b1f202666d0b82e67b4d387e909af2b920127 # v0.2.2
+      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@v0.2.1
      with:
        db_uri: ${{ secrets.GH_REPORT_STATS_DB_RW_CONNSTR }}
        db_table: "gh_workflow_stats_neon"
@@ -37,13 +29,8 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      actions: read
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Export Workflow Run for the past 48 hours
-      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@701b1f202666d0b82e67b4d387e909af2b920127 # v0.2.2
+      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@v0.2.1
      with:
        db_uri: ${{ secrets.GH_REPORT_STATS_DB_RW_CONNSTR }}
        db_table: "gh_workflow_stats_neon"
@@ -57,13 +44,8 @@ jobs:
    permissions:
      actions: read
    steps:
-    - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@4d991eb9b905ef189e4c376166672c3f2f230481 # v2.11.0
-      with:
-        egress-policy: audit
-
    - name: Export Workflow Run for the past 30 days
-      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@701b1f202666d0b82e67b4d387e909af2b920127 # v0.2.2
+      uses: neondatabase/gh-workflow-stats-action@v0.2.1
      with:
        db_uri: ${{ secrets.GH_REPORT_STATS_DB_RW_CONNSTR }}
        db_table: "gh_workflow_stats_neon"
--- a/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ on:
      github-event-name:
        type: string
        required: true
-      github-event-json:
-        type: string
-        required: true

 defaults:
  run:
@@ -34,11 +31,6 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Cancel previous e2e-tests runs for this PR
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
@@ -51,7 +43,6 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/_meta.yml
    with:
      github-event-name: ${{ inputs.github-event-name || github.event_name }}
-      github-event-json: ${{ inputs.github-event-json || toJSON(github.event) }}

  trigger-e2e-tests:
    needs: [ meta ]
@@ -72,11 +63,6 @@ jobs:
          || needs.meta.outputs.build-tag
        }}
    steps:
-      - name: Harden the runner (Audit all outbound calls)
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@v2
-        with:
-          egress-policy: audit
-
      - name: Wait for `push-{neon,compute}-image-dev` job to finish
        # It's important to have a timeout here, the script in the step can run infinitely
        timeout-minutes: 60
--- a/4
+++ b/4
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Autoscaling
 /libs/vm_monitor/ @neondatabase/autoscaling

-# DevProd & PerfCorr
-/.github/ @neondatabase/developer-productivity @neondatabase/performance-correctness
+# DevProd
+/.github/ @neondatabase/developer-productivity

 # Compute
 /pgxn/ @neondatabase/compute
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,16 +43,17 @@ members = [
 ]

 [workspace.package]
-edition = "2024"
+edition = "2021"
 license = "Apache-2.0"

 ## All dependency versions, used in the project
 [workspace.dependencies]
 ahash = "0.8"
 anyhow = { version = "1.0", features = ["backtrace"] }
-arc-swap = "1.7"
+arc-swap = "1.6"
 async-compression = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["tokio", "gzip", "zstd"] }
 atomic-take = "1.1.0"
+backtrace = "0.3.74"
 flate2 = "1.0.26"
 assert-json-diff = "2"
 async-stream = "0.3"
@@ -67,10 +68,9 @@ aws-credential-types = "1.2.0"
 aws-sigv4 = { version = "1.2", features = ["sign-http"] }
 aws-types = "1.3"
 axum = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["ws"] }
-axum-extra = { version = "0.10.0", features = ["typed-header"] }
 base64 = "0.13.0"
 bincode = "1.3"
-bindgen = "0.71"
+bindgen = "0.70"
 bit_field = "0.10.2"
 bstr = "1.0"
 byteorder = "1.4"
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ futures = "0.3"
 futures-core = "0.3"
 futures-util = "0.3"
 git-version = "0.3"
-governor = "0.8"
 hashbrown = "0.14"
 hashlink = "0.9.1"
 hdrhistogram = "7.5.2"
@@ -106,18 +105,19 @@ hostname = "0.4"
 http = {version = "1.1.0", features = ["std"]}
 http-types = { version = "2", default-features = false }
 http-body-util = "0.1.2"
-humantime = "2.2"
+humantime = "2.1"
 humantime-serde = "1.1.1"
 hyper0 = { package = "hyper", version = "0.14" }
 hyper = "1.4"
 hyper-util = "0.1"
 tokio-tungstenite = "0.21.0"
-indexmap = { version = "2", features = ["serde"] }
+indexmap = "2"
 indoc = "2"
+inferno = "0.12.0"
 ipnet = "2.10.0"
 itertools = "0.10"
 itoa = "1.0.11"
-jemalloc_pprof = { version = "0.7", features = ["symbolize", "flamegraph"] }
+jemalloc_pprof = "0.6"
 jsonwebtoken = "9"
 lasso = "0.7"
 libc = "0.2"
@@ -126,11 +126,9 @@ measured = { version = "0.0.22", features=["lasso"] }
 measured-process = { version = "0.0.22" }
 memoffset = "0.9"
 nix = { version = "0.27", features = ["dir", "fs", "process", "socket", "signal", "poll"] }
-# Do not update to >= 7.0.0, at least. The update will have a significant impact
-# on compute startup metrics (start_postgres_ms), >= 25% degradation.
-notify = "6.0.0"
+notify = "8.0.0"
 num_cpus = "1.15"
-num-traits = "0.2.19"
+num-traits = "0.2.15"
 once_cell = "1.13"
 opentelemetry = "0.27"
 opentelemetry_sdk = "0.27"
@@ -141,12 +139,12 @@ parquet = { version = "53", default-features = false, features = ["zstd"] }
 parquet_derive = "53"
 pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["simple", "std"] }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
-pprof = { version = "0.14", features = ["criterion", "flamegraph", "frame-pointer", "prost-codec"] }
+pprof = { version = "0.14", features = ["criterion", "flamegraph", "frame-pointer", "protobuf", "protobuf-codec"] }
 procfs = "0.16"
 prometheus = {version = "0.13", default-features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
 prost = "0.13"
 rand = "0.8"
-redis = { version = "0.29.2", features = ["tokio-rustls-comp", "keep-alive"] }
+redis = { version = "0.25.2", features = ["tokio-rustls-comp", "keep-alive"] }
 regex = "1.10.2"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"] }
 reqwest-tracing = { version = "0.5", features = ["opentelemetry_0_27"] }
@@ -157,7 +155,6 @@ rpds = "0.13"
 rustc-hash = "1.1.0"
 rustls = { version = "0.23.16", default-features = false }
 rustls-pemfile = "2"
-rustls-pki-types = "1.11"
 scopeguard = "1.1"
 sysinfo = "0.29.2"
 sd-notify = "0.4.1"
@@ -195,7 +192,7 @@ toml = "0.8"
 toml_edit = "0.22"
 tonic = {version = "0.12.3", default-features = false, features = ["channel", "tls", "tls-roots"]}
 tower = { version = "0.5.2", default-features = false }
-tower-http = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["auth", "request-id", "trace"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.6.2", features = ["request-id", "trace"] }

 # This revision uses opentelemetry 0.27. There's no tag for it.
 tower-otel = { git = "https://github.com/mattiapenati/tower-otel", rev = "56a7321053bcb72443888257b622ba0d43a11fcd" }
@@ -215,13 +212,13 @@ urlencoding = "2.1"
 uuid = { version = "1.6.1", features = ["v4", "v7", "serde"] }
 walkdir = "2.3.2"
 rustls-native-certs = "0.8"
+x509-parser = "0.16"
 whoami = "1.5.1"
 zerocopy = { version = "0.7", features = ["derive"] }
 json-structural-diff = { version = "0.2.0" }
-x509-cert = { version = "0.2.5" }

 ## TODO replace this with tracing
-env_logger = "0.11"
+env_logger = "0.10"
 log = "0.4"

 ## Libraries from neondatabase/ git forks, ideally with changes to be upstreamed
--- a/2
+++ b/2
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ### The image itself is mainly used as a container for the binaries and for starting e2e tests with custom parameters.
 ### By default, the binaries inside the image have some mock parameters and can start, but are not intended to be used
 ### inside this image in the real deployments.
-ARG REPOSITORY=ghcr.io/neondatabase
+ARG REPOSITORY=neondatabase
 ARG IMAGE=build-tools
 ARG TAG=pinned
 ARG DEFAULT_PG_VERSION=17
--- a/7
+++ b/7
@@ -11,16 +11,15 @@ ICU_PREFIX_DIR := /usr/local/icu
 #
 BUILD_TYPE ?= debug
 WITH_SANITIZERS ?= no
-PG_CFLAGS = -fsigned-char
 ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),release)
 	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS = --enable-debug --with-openssl
-	PG_CFLAGS += -O2 -g3 $(CFLAGS)
+	PG_CFLAGS = -O2 -g3 $(CFLAGS)
 	PG_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS)
 	# Unfortunately, `--profile=...` is a nightly feature
 	CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS += --release
 else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),debug)
 	PG_CONFIGURE_OPTS = --enable-debug --with-openssl --enable-cassert --enable-depend
-	PG_CFLAGS += -O0 -g3 $(CFLAGS)
+	PG_CFLAGS = -O0 -g3 $(CFLAGS)
 	PG_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS)
 else
 	$(error Bad build type '$(BUILD_TYPE)', see Makefile for options)
@@ -160,8 +159,6 @@ postgres-%: postgres-configure-% \
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_visibility install
 	+@echo "Compiling pageinspect $*"
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pageinspect install
-	+@echo "Compiling pg_trgm $*"
-	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/pg_trgm install
 	+@echo "Compiling amcheck $*"
 	$(MAKE) -C $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/$*/contrib/amcheck install
 	+@echo "Compiling test_decoding $*"
--- a/build-tools.Dockerfile
+++ b/build-tools.Dockerfile
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/nonroot

 # Rust
 # Please keep the version of llvm (installed above) in sync with rust llvm (`rustc --version --verbose | grep LLVM`)
-ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.86.0
+ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.85.0
 ENV RUSTUP_HOME="/home/nonroot/.rustup"
 ENV PATH="/home/nonroot/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
 ARG RUSTFILT_VERSION=0.2.1
--- a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
+++ b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 # build_and_test.yml github workflow for how that's done.

 ARG PG_VERSION
-ARG REPOSITORY=ghcr.io/neondatabase
+ARG REPOSITORY=neondatabase
 ARG IMAGE=build-tools
 ARG TAG=pinned
 ARG BUILD_TAG
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ FROM build-deps AS pg-build
 ARG PG_VERSION
 COPY vendor/postgres-${PG_VERSION:?} postgres
 RUN cd postgres && \
-    export CONFIGURE_CMD="./configure CFLAGS='-O2 -g3 -fsigned-char' --enable-debug --with-openssl --with-uuid=ossp \
+    export CONFIGURE_CMD="./configure CFLAGS='-O2 -g3' --enable-debug --with-openssl --with-uuid=ossp \
    --with-icu --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-lz4" && \
    if [ "${PG_VERSION:?}" != "v14" ]; then \
        # zstd is available only from PG15
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ FROM build-deps AS plv8-src
 ARG PG_VERSION
 WORKDIR /ext-src

-COPY compute/patches/plv8* .
+COPY compute/patches/plv8-3.1.10.patch .

 # plv8 3.2.3 supports v17
 # last release v3.2.3 - Sep 7, 2024
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ RUN case "${PG_VERSION:?}" in \
    git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 --branch ${PLV8_TAG} https://github.com/plv8/plv8.git plv8-src && \
    tar -czf plv8.tar.gz --exclude .git plv8-src && \
    cd plv8-src && \
-    if [[ "${PG_VERSION:?}" < "v17" ]]; then patch -p1 < /ext-src/plv8_v3.1.10.patch; else patch -p1 < /ext-src/plv8_v3.2.3.patch; fi
+    if [[ "${PG_VERSION:?}" < "v17" ]]; then patch -p1 < /ext-src/plv8-3.1.10.patch; fi

 # Step 1: Build the vendored V8 engine. It doesn't depend on PostgreSQL, so use
 # 'build-deps' as the base. This enables caching and avoids unnecessary rebuilds.
@@ -1055,6 +1055,34 @@ RUN  if [ -d pg_embedding-src ]; then \
        make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install; \
    fi

+#########################################################################################
+#
+# Layer "pg_anon-build"
+# compile anon extension
+#
+#########################################################################################
+FROM build-deps AS pg_anon-src
+ARG PG_VERSION
+
+# This is an experimental extension, never got to real production.
+# !Do not remove! It can be present in shared_preload_libraries and compute will fail to start if library is not found.
+WORKDIR /ext-src
+RUN case "${PG_VERSION:?}" in "v17") \
+    echo "postgresql_anonymizer does not yet support PG17" && exit 0;; \
+    esac && \
+    wget  https://github.com/neondatabase/postgresql_anonymizer/archive/refs/tags/neon_1.1.1.tar.gz -O pg_anon.tar.gz && \
+    echo "321ea8d5c1648880aafde850a2c576e4a9e7b9933a34ce272efc839328999fa9  pg_anon.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+    mkdir pg_anon-src && cd pg_anon-src && tar xzf ../pg_anon.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C .
+
+FROM pg-build AS pg_anon-build
+COPY --from=pg_anon-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
+WORKDIR /ext-src
+RUN if [ -d pg_anon-src ]; then \
+        cd pg_anon-src && \
+        make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) install && \
+        echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/anon.control; \
+    fi
+
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layer "pg build with nonroot user and cargo installed"
@@ -1338,8 +1366,8 @@ ARG PG_VERSION
 # Do not update without approve from proxy team
 # Make sure the version is reflected in proxy/src/serverless/local_conn_pool.rs
 WORKDIR /ext-src
-RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_session_jwt/archive/refs/tags/v0.3.0.tar.gz -O pg_session_jwt.tar.gz && \
-    echo "19be2dc0b3834d643706ed430af998bb4c2cdf24b3c45e7b102bb3a550e8660c pg_session_jwt.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_session_jwt/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz -O pg_session_jwt.tar.gz && \
+    echo "5ace028e591f2e000ca10afa5b1ca62203ebff014c2907c0ec3b29c36f28a1bb pg_session_jwt.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pg_session_jwt-src && cd pg_session_jwt-src && tar xzf ../pg_session_jwt.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.12.6"/pgrx = { version = "0.12.9", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    sed -i 's/version = "0.12.6"/version = "0.12.9"/g' pgrx-tests/Cargo.toml && \
@@ -1456,7 +1484,7 @@ WORKDIR /ext-src
 COPY compute/patches/pg_duckdb_v031.patch .
 COPY compute/patches/duckdb_v120.patch .
 # pg_duckdb build requires source dir to be a git repo to get submodules
-# allow neon_superuser to execute some functions that in pg_duckdb are available to superuser only:
+# allow neon_superuser to execute some functions that in pg_duckdb are available to superuser only: 
 # - extension management function duckdb.install_extension()
 # - access to duckdb.extensions table and its sequence
 RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.3.1 https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb.git pg_duckdb-src && \
@@ -1471,8 +1499,8 @@ ARG PG_VERSION
 COPY --from=pg_duckdb-src /ext-src/ /ext-src/
 WORKDIR /ext-src/pg_duckdb-src
 RUN make install -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && \
-    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_duckdb.control
-
+    echo 'trusted = true' >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_duckdb.control 
+        
 #########################################################################################
 #
 # Layer "pg_repack"
@@ -1649,6 +1677,7 @@ COPY --from=pg_roaringbitmap-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_semver-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_embedding-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=wal2json-build /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/pgsql
+COPY --from=pg_anon-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_ivm-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_partman-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
 COPY --from=pg_mooncake-build /usr/local/pgsql/ /usr/local/pgsql/
@@ -1706,8 +1735,6 @@ RUN set -e \
        libevent-dev \
        libtool \
        pkg-config \
-        libcurl4-openssl-dev \
-        libssl-dev \
    && apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

 # Use `dist_man_MANS=` to skip manpage generation (which requires python3/pandoc)
@@ -1716,7 +1743,7 @@ RUN set -e \
    && git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 --branch ${PGBOUNCER_TAG} https://github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.git pgbouncer \
    && cd pgbouncer \
    && ./autogen.sh \
-    && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgbouncer \
+    && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgbouncer --without-openssl \
    && make -j $(nproc) dist_man_MANS= \
    && make install dist_man_MANS=

@@ -1731,15 +1758,15 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 # test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py
 # See comment on the top of the file regading `echo`, `-e` and `\n`
 RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then\
-        postgres_exporter_sha256='59aa4a7bb0f7d361f5e05732f5ed8c03cc08f78449cef5856eadec33a627694b';\
+        postgres_exporter_sha256='027e75dda7af621237ff8f5ac66b78a40b0093595f06768612b92b1374bd3105';\
        pgbouncer_exporter_sha256='c9f7cf8dcff44f0472057e9bf52613d93f3ffbc381ad7547a959daa63c5e84ac';\
        sql_exporter_sha256='38e439732bbf6e28ca4a94d7bc3686d3fa1abdb0050773d5617a9efdb9e64d08';\
    else\
-        postgres_exporter_sha256='d1dedea97f56c6d965837bfd1fbb3e35a3b4a4556f8cccee8bd513d8ee086124';\
+        postgres_exporter_sha256='131a376d25778ff9701a4c81f703f179e0b58db5c2c496e66fa43f8179484786';\
        pgbouncer_exporter_sha256='217c4afd7e6492ae904055bc14fe603552cf9bac458c063407e991d68c519da3';\
        sql_exporter_sha256='11918b00be6e2c3a67564adfdb2414fdcbb15a5db76ea17d1d1a944237a893c6';\
    fi\
-    && curl -sL https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/releases/download/v0.17.1/postgres_exporter-0.17.1.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
+    && curl -sL https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/releases/download/v0.16.0/postgres_exporter-0.16.0.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
     | tar xzf - --strip-components=1 -C.\
    && curl -sL https://github.com/prometheus-community/pgbouncer_exporter/releases/download/v0.10.2/pgbouncer_exporter-0.10.2.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz\
     | tar xzf - --strip-components=1 -C.\
@@ -1887,30 +1914,25 @@ RUN apt update && \
      ;; \
    esac && \
    apt install --no-install-recommends -y \
-        ca-certificates \
        gdb \
-        iproute2 \
+        liblz4-1 \
+        libreadline8 \
        libboost-iostreams1.74.0 \
        libboost-regex1.74.0 \
        libboost-serialization1.74.0 \
        libboost-system1.74.0 \
-        libcurl4 \
-        libevent-2.1-7 \
-        libgeos-c1v5 \
-        liblz4-1 \
        libossp-uuid16 \
+        libgeos-c1v5 \
        libprotobuf-c1 \
-        libreadline8 \
        libsfcgal1 \
        libxml2 \
        libxslt1.1 \
        libzstd1 \
+        libcurl4 \
+        libevent-2.1-7 \
        locales \
-        lsof \
        procps \
-        rsyslog \
-        screen \
-        tcpdump \
+        ca-certificates \
        $VERSION_INSTALLS && \
    apt clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* && \
    localedef -i en_US -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias en_US.UTF-8
@@ -1956,13 +1978,6 @@ COPY --from=sql_exporter_preprocessor --chmod=0644 /home/nonroot/compute/etc/neo
 # Make the libraries we built available
 RUN echo '/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf && /sbin/ldconfig

-# rsyslog config permissions
-# directory for rsyslogd pid file
-RUN mkdir /var/run/rsyslogd && \
-    chown -R postgres:postgres /var/run/rsyslogd && \
-    chown -R postgres:postgres /etc/rsyslog.d/
-
-
 ENV LANG=en_US.utf8
 USER postgres
 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/compute_ctl"]
--- a/compute/etc/neon_collector.jsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/neon_collector.jsonnet
@@ -29,11 +29,9 @@
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_approximate_working_set_size.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_approximate_working_set_size_windows.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_cache_size_limit.libsonnet',
-    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_chunk_size.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_hits.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_misses.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_used.libsonnet',
-    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/lfc_writes.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/logical_slot_restart_lsn.libsonnet',
    import 'sql_exporter/max_cluster_size.libsonnet',
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/db_total_size.sql
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/db_total_size.sql
@@ -1,5 +1 @@
-SELECT sum(pg_database_size(datname)) AS total
-FROM pg_database
-- Ignore invalid databases, as we will likely have problems with
-- getting their size from the Pageserver.
-WHERE datconnlimit != -2;
+SELECT sum(pg_database_size(datname)) AS total FROM pg_database;
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_chunk_size.libsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_chunk_size.libsonnet
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  metric_name: 'lfc_chunk_size',
-  type: 'gauge',
-  help: 'LFC chunk size, measured in 8KiB pages',
-  key_labels: null,
-  values: [
-    'lfc_chunk_size_pages',
-  ],
-  query: importstr 'sql_exporter/lfc_chunk_size.sql',
-}
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_chunk_size.sql
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_chunk_size.sql
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SELECT lfc_value AS lfc_chunk_size_pages FROM neon.neon_lfc_stats WHERE lfc_key = 'file_cache_chunk_size_pages';
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.libsonnet
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.libsonnet
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  metric_name: 'lfc_used_pages',
-  type: 'gauge',
-  help: 'LFC pages used',
-  key_labels: null,
-  values: [
-    'lfc_used_pages',
-  ],
-  query: importstr 'sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.sql',
-}
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.sql
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/lfc_used_pages.sql
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-SELECT lfc_value AS lfc_used_pages FROM neon.neon_lfc_stats WHERE lfc_key = 'file_cache_used_pages';
--- a/compute/etc/sql_exporter/pg_stats_userdb.sql
+++ b/compute/etc/sql_exporter/pg_stats_userdb.sql
@@ -1,20 +1,10 @@
 -- We export stats for 10 non-system databases. Without this limit it is too
 -- easy to abuse the system by creating lots of databases.

-SELECT pg_database_size(datname) AS db_size,
-  deadlocks,
-  tup_inserted AS inserted,
-  tup_updated AS updated,
-  tup_deleted AS deleted,
-  datname
+SELECT pg_database_size(datname) AS db_size, deadlocks, tup_inserted AS inserted,
+  tup_updated AS updated, tup_deleted AS deleted, datname
 FROM pg_stat_database
 WHERE datname IN (
  SELECT datname FROM pg_database
-  -- Ignore invalid databases, as we will likely have problems with
-  -- getting their size from the Pageserver.
-  WHERE datconnlimit != -2
-    AND datname <> 'postgres'
-    AND NOT datistemplate
-  ORDER BY oid
-  LIMIT 10
+  WHERE datname <> 'postgres' AND NOT datistemplate ORDER BY oid LIMIT 10
 );
--- a/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v16.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v16.patch
@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@ diff --git a/expected/ut-A.out b/expected/ut-A.out
 index da723b8..5328114 100644
 --- a/expected/ut-A.out
 +++ b/expected/ut-A.out
+@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@ SET search_path TO public;
+ ----
+ -- No.A-1-1-3
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ -- No.A-1-2-3
+ DROP EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+ -- No.A-1-1-4
+ CREATE SCHEMA other_schema;
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan SCHEMA other_schema;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ ERROR:  extension "pg_hint_plan" must be installed in schema "hint_plan"
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ DROP SCHEMA other_schema;
+ ----
+ ---- No. A-5-1 comment pattern
@@ -3175,6 +3178,7 @@ SELECT s.query, s.calls
   FROM public.pg_stat_statements s
   JOIN pg_catalog.pg_database d
@@ -10,6 +27,18 @@ index da723b8..5328114 100644
  ORDER BY 1;
                 query                 | calls 
 --------------------------------------+-------
+diff --git a/expected/ut-fdw.out b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+index d372459..6282afe 100644
+--- a/expected/ut-fdw.out
+++ b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SET pg_hint_plan.debug_print TO on;
+ SET client_min_messages TO LOG;
+ SET pg_hint_plan.enable_hint TO on;
+ CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/file_fdw
+ CREATE SERVER file_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file_fdw;
+ CREATE USER MAPPING FOR PUBLIC SERVER file_server;
+ CREATE FOREIGN TABLE ft1 (id int, val int) SERVER file_server OPTIONS (format 'csv', filename :'filename');
 diff --git a/sql/ut-A.sql b/sql/ut-A.sql
 index 7c7d58a..4fd1a07 100644
 --- a/sql/ut-A.sql
--- a/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v17.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pg_hint_plan_v17.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+diff --git a/expected/ut-A.out b/expected/ut-A.out
+index e7d68a1..65a056c 100644
+--- a/expected/ut-A.out
+++ b/expected/ut-A.out
+@@ -9,13 +9,16 @@ SET search_path TO public;
+ ----
+ -- No.A-1-1-3
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ -- No.A-1-2-3
+ DROP EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+ -- No.A-1-1-4
+ CREATE SCHEMA other_schema;
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan SCHEMA other_schema;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ ERROR:  extension "pg_hint_plan" must be installed in schema "hint_plan"
+ CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/pg_hint_plan
+ DROP SCHEMA other_schema;
+ ----
+ ---- No. A-5-1 comment pattern
 diff --git a/expected/ut-J.out b/expected/ut-J.out
 index 2fa3c70..314e929 100644
 --- a/expected/ut-J.out
@@ -139,3 +160,15 @@ index a09bd34..0ad227c 100644
 error hint:
 
                     explain_filter                    
+diff --git a/expected/ut-fdw.out b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+index 017fa4b..98d989b 100644
+--- a/expected/ut-fdw.out
+++ b/expected/ut-fdw.out
+@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ SET pg_hint_plan.debug_print TO on;
+ SET client_min_messages TO LOG;
+ SET pg_hint_plan.enable_hint TO on;
+ CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw;
+LOG:  Sending request to compute_ctl: http://localhost:3081/extension_server/file_fdw
+ CREATE SERVER file_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file_fdw;
+ CREATE USER MAPPING FOR PUBLIC SERVER file_server;
+ CREATE FOREIGN TABLE ft1 (id int, val int) SERVER file_server OPTIONS (format 'csv', filename :'filename');
--- a/compute/patches/pgvector.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/pgvector.patch
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ index 7a4b88c..56678af 100644
 HEADERS = src/halfvec.h src/sparsevec.h src/vector.h
 
 diff --git a/src/hnswbuild.c b/src/hnswbuild.c
-index b667478..dc95d89 100644
+index b667478..fc1897c 100644
 --- a/src/hnswbuild.c
 +++ b/src/hnswbuild.c
@@ -843,9 +843,17 @@ HnswParallelBuildMain(dsm_segment *seg, shm_toc *toc)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ index b667478..dc95d89 100644
 	/* Close relations within worker */
 	index_close(indexRel, indexLockmode);
 	table_close(heapRel, heapLockmode);
-@@ -1100,12 +1108,39 @@ BuildIndex(Relation heap, Relation index, IndexInfo *indexInfo,
+@@ -1100,12 +1108,38 @@ BuildIndex(Relation heap, Relation index, IndexInfo *indexInfo,
 	SeedRandom(42);
 #endif
 
@@ -62,11 +62,10 @@ index b667478..dc95d89 100644
 +#else
 +			RelFileNode rlocator = RelationGetSmgr(index)->smgr_rnode.node;
 +#endif
-+			if (set_lwlsn_block_range_hook)
-+				set_lwlsn_block_range_hook(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator,
-+										   MAIN_FORKNUM, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(index));
-+			if (set_lwlsn_relation_hook)
-+				set_lwlsn_relation_hook(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM);
+
+			SetLastWrittenLSNForBlockRange(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator,
+									   MAIN_FORKNUM, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(index));
+			SetLastWrittenLSNForRelation(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM);
 +		}
 +#endif
 +	}
--- a/compute/patches/plv8_v3.1.10.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/plv8_v3.1.10.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
+commit 46b38d3e46f9cd6c70d9b189dd6ff4abaa17cf5e
+Author: Alexander Bayandin <alexander@neon.tech>
+Date:   Sat Nov 30 18:29:32 2024 +0000
+
+    Fix v8 9.7.37 compilation on Debian 12
+
 diff --git a/patches/code/84cf3230a9680aac3b73c410c2b758760b6d3066.patch b/patches/code/84cf3230a9680aac3b73c410c2b758760b6d3066.patch
 new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..fae1cb3
+index 0000000..f0a5dc7
 --- /dev/null
 +++ b/patches/code/84cf3230a9680aac3b73c410c2b758760b6d3066.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
@@ -29,21 +35,8 @@ index 0000000..fae1cb3
 +@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 + #ifndef V8_HEAP_CPPGC_PREFINALIZER_HANDLER_H_
 + #define V8_HEAP_CPPGC_PREFINALIZER_HANDLER_H_
-+
+ 
 ++#include <utility>
 + #include <vector>
-+
+ 
 + #include "include/cppgc/prefinalizer.h"
-diff --git a/plv8.cc b/plv8.cc
-index c1ce883..6e47e94 100644
--- a/plv8.cc
-+++ b/plv8.cc
-@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
- 							   NULL,
- 							   &plv8_v8_flags,
- 							   NULL,
-							   PGC_USERSET, 0,
-+							   PGC_SUSET, 0,
- #if PG_VERSION_NUM >= 90100
- 							   NULL,
- #endif
--- a/compute/patches/plv8_v3.2.3.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/plv8_v3.2.3.patch
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/plv8.cc b/plv8.cc
-index edfa2aa..623e7f2 100644
--- a/plv8.cc
-+++ b/plv8.cc
-@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
-                                    NULL,
-                                    &plv8_v8_flags,
-                                    NULL,
-                                   PGC_USERSET, 0,
-+                                   PGC_SUSET, 0,
- #if PG_VERSION_NUM >= 90100
-                                    NULL,
- #endif
--- a/compute/patches/rum.patch
+++ b/compute/patches/rum.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
+commit 68f3b3b0d594f08aacc4a082ee210749ed5677eb
+Author: Anastasia Lubennikova <anastasia@neon.tech>
+Date:   Mon Jul 15 12:31:56 2024 +0100
+
+    Neon: fix unlogged index build patch
+
 diff --git a/src/ruminsert.c b/src/ruminsert.c
-index 255e616..7a2240f 100644
+index e8b209d..e89bf2a 100644
 --- a/src/ruminsert.c
 +++ b/src/ruminsert.c
@@ -628,6 +628,10 @@ rumbuild(Relation heap, Relation index, struct IndexInfo *indexInfo)
@@ -24,7 +30,7 @@ index 255e616..7a2240f 100644
 	/*
 	 * Write index to xlog
 	 */
-@@ -713,6 +721,22 @@ rumbuild(Relation heap, Relation index, struct IndexInfo *indexInfo)
+@@ -713,6 +721,21 @@ rumbuild(Relation heap, Relation index, struct IndexInfo *indexInfo)
 		UnlockReleaseBuffer(buffer);
 	}
 
@@ -35,10 +41,9 @@ index 255e616..7a2240f 100644
 +#else
 +		RelFileNode rlocator = RelationGetSmgr(index)->smgr_rnode.node;
 +#endif
-+		if (set_lwlsn_block_range_hook)
-+			set_lwlsn_block_range_hook(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(index));
-+		if (set_lwlsn_relation_hook)
-+			set_lwlsn_relation_hook(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM);
+
+		SetLastWrittenLSNForBlockRange(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM, 0, RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(index));
+		SetLastWrittenLSNForRelation(XactLastRecEnd, rlocator, MAIN_FORKNUM);
 +
 +		smgr_end_unlogged_build(index->rd_smgr);
 +	}
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bookworm.yaml
@@ -39,17 +39,6 @@ commands:
    user: nobody
    sysvInitAction: respawn
    shell: '/bin/sql_exporter -config.file=/etc/sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml -web.listen-address=:9499'
-  # Rsyslog by default creates a unix socket under /dev/log . That's where Postgres sends logs also.
-  # We run syslog with postgres user so it can't create /dev/log. Instead we configure rsyslog to
-  # use a different path for the socket. The symlink actually points to our custom path.
-  - name: rsyslogd-socket-symlink
-    user: root
-    sysvInitAction: sysinit
-    shell: "ln -s /var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe /dev/log"
-  - name: rsyslogd
-    user: postgres
-    sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: '/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -i /var/run/rsyslogd/rsyslogd.pid -f /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf'
 shutdownHook: |
  su -p postgres --session-command '/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl stop -D /var/db/postgres/compute/pgdata -m fast --wait -t 10'
 files:
@@ -65,7 +54,7 @@ files:
      # regardless of hostname (ALL)
      #
      # Also allow it to shut down the VM. The fast_import job does that when it's finished.
-      postgres ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /neonvm/bin/resize-swap, /neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota, /neonvm/bin/poweroff, /usr/sbin/rsyslogd
+      postgres ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /neonvm/bin/resize-swap, /neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota, /neonvm/bin/poweroff
  - filename: cgconfig.conf
    content: |
      # Configuration for cgroups in VM compute nodes
@@ -80,15 +69,6 @@ files:
          }
          memory {}
      }
-# Create dummy rsyslog config, because it refuses to start without at least one action configured.
-# compute_ctl will rewrite this file with the actual configuration, if needed.
-  - filename: compute_rsyslog.conf
-    content: |
-      # Syslock.Name specifies a non-default pipe location that is writeable for the postgres user.
-      module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Name="/var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe") # provides support for local system logging
-
-      *.*    /dev/null
-      $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 build: |
  # Build cgroup-tools
  #
@@ -152,12 +132,6 @@ merge: |
  RUN set -e \
      && chmod 0644 /etc/cgconfig.conf

-
-  COPY compute_rsyslog.conf /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
-  RUN chmod 0666 /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
-  RUN mkdir /var/log/rsyslog && chown -R postgres /var/log/rsyslog
-
-
  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/bin/*  /usr/bin/
  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/lib/*  /usr/lib/
  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/sbin/* /usr/sbin/
--- a/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
+++ b/compute/vm-image-spec-bullseye.yaml
@@ -39,17 +39,6 @@ commands:
    user: nobody
    sysvInitAction: respawn
    shell: '/bin/sql_exporter -config.file=/etc/sql_exporter_autoscaling.yml -web.listen-address=:9499'
-  # Rsyslog by default creates a unix socket under /dev/log . That's where Postgres sends logs also.
-  # We run syslog with postgres user so it can't create /dev/log. Instead we configure rsyslog to
-  # use a different path for the socket. The symlink actually points to our custom path.
-  - name: rsyslogd-socket-symlink
-    user: root
-    sysvInitAction: sysinit
-    shell: "ln -s /var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe /dev/log"
-  - name: rsyslogd
-    user: postgres
-    sysvInitAction: respawn
-    shell: '/usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -i /var/run/rsyslogd/rsyslogd.pid -f /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf'
 shutdownHook: |
  su -p postgres --session-command '/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl stop -D /var/db/postgres/compute/pgdata -m fast --wait -t 10'
 files:
@@ -65,7 +54,7 @@ files:
      # regardless of hostname (ALL)
      #
      # Also allow it to shut down the VM. The fast_import job does that when it's finished.
-      postgres ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /neonvm/bin/resize-swap, /neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota, /neonvm/bin/poweroff, /usr/sbin/rsyslogd
+      postgres ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /neonvm/bin/resize-swap, /neonvm/bin/set-disk-quota, /neonvm/bin/poweroff
  - filename: cgconfig.conf
    content: |
      # Configuration for cgroups in VM compute nodes
@@ -80,15 +69,6 @@ files:
          }
          memory {}
      }
-# Create dummy rsyslog config, because it refuses to start without at least one action configured.
-# compute_ctl will rewrite this file with the actual configuration, if needed.
-  - filename: compute_rsyslog.conf
-    content: |
-      # Syslock.Name specifies a non-default pipe location that is writeable for the postgres user.
-      module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.Name="/var/db/postgres/rsyslogpipe") # provides support for local system logging
-
-      *.*    /dev/null
-      $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 build: |
  # Build cgroup-tools
  #
@@ -148,11 +128,6 @@ merge: |
  RUN set -e \
      && chmod 0644 /etc/cgconfig.conf

-  COPY compute_rsyslog.conf /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
-  RUN chmod 0666 /etc/compute_rsyslog.conf
-  RUN mkdir /var/log/rsyslog && chown -R postgres /var/log/rsyslog
-
-
  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/bin/*  /usr/bin/
  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/lib/*  /usr/lib/
  COPY --from=libcgroup-builder /libcgroup-install/sbin/* /usr/sbin/
--- a/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
+++ b/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ aws-sdk-kms.workspace = true
 aws-smithy-types.workspace = true
 anyhow.workspace = true
 axum = { workspace = true, features = [] }
-axum-extra.workspace = true
 camino.workspace = true
 chrono.workspace = true
 cfg-if.workspace = true
@@ -26,8 +25,6 @@ fail.workspace = true
 flate2.workspace = true
 futures.workspace = true
 http.workspace = true
-indexmap.workspace = true
-jsonwebtoken.workspace = true
 metrics.workspace = true
 nix.workspace = true
 notify.workspace = true
@@ -35,19 +32,16 @@ num_cpus.workspace = true
 once_cell.workspace = true
 opentelemetry.workspace = true
 opentelemetry_sdk.workspace = true
-p256 = { version = "0.13", features = ["pem"] }
 postgres.workspace = true
 regex.workspace = true
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
-ring = "0.17"
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_with.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 signal-hook.workspace = true
-spki = { version = "0.7.3", features = ["std"] }
 tar.workspace = true
 tower.workspace = true
 tower-http.workspace = true
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-postgres.workspace = true
 tokio-util.workspace = true
@@ -61,7 +55,6 @@ thiserror.workspace = true
 url.workspace = true
 uuid.workspace = true
 walkdir.workspace = true
-x509-cert.workspace = true

 postgres_initdb.workspace = true
 compute_api.workspace = true
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/compute_ctl.rs
@@ -33,32 +33,46 @@
 //!             -b /usr/local/bin/postgres \
 //!             -r http://pg-ext-s3-gateway \
 //! ```
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::ffi::OsString;
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::process::exit;
-use std::sync::mpsc;
+use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Condvar, Mutex, RwLock, mpsc};
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::Duration;

 use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use chrono::Utc;
 use clap::Parser;
-use compute_api::responses::ComputeCtlConfig;
+use compute_api::responses::{ComputeCtlConfig, ComputeStatus};
 use compute_api::spec::ComputeSpec;
 use compute_tools::compute::{
-    BUILD_TAG, ComputeNode, ComputeNodeParams, forward_termination_signal,
+    ComputeNode, ComputeState, PG_PID, ParsedSpec, forward_termination_signal,
 };
+use compute_tools::configurator::launch_configurator;
+use compute_tools::disk_quota::set_disk_quota;
 use compute_tools::extension_server::get_pg_version_string;
+use compute_tools::http::server::Server;
 use compute_tools::logger::*;
+use compute_tools::lsn_lease::launch_lsn_lease_bg_task_for_static;
+use compute_tools::monitor::launch_monitor;
 use compute_tools::params::*;
 use compute_tools::spec::*;
+use compute_tools::swap::resize_swap;
 use rlimit::{Resource, setrlimit};
 use signal_hook::consts::{SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGTERM};
 use signal_hook::iterator::Signals;
-use tracing::{error, info};
+use tracing::{error, info, warn};
 use url::Url;
 use utils::failpoint_support;

+// this is an arbitrary build tag. Fine as a default / for testing purposes
+// in-case of not-set environment var
+const BUILD_TAG_DEFAULT: &str = "latest";
+
 // Compatibility hack: if the control plane specified any remote-ext-config
 // use the default value for extension storage proxy gateway.
 // Remove this once the control plane is updated to pass the gateway URL
@@ -145,47 +159,37 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
        .build()?;
    let _rt_guard = runtime.enter();

-    runtime.block_on(init())?;
+    let build_tag = runtime.block_on(init())?;

    // enable core dumping for all child processes
    setrlimit(Resource::CORE, rlimit::INFINITY, rlimit::INFINITY)?;

-    let connstr = Url::parse(&cli.connstr).context("cannot parse connstr as a URL")?;
+    let (pg_handle, start_pg_result) = {
+        // Enter startup tracing context
+        let _startup_context_guard = startup_context_from_env();

-    let cli_spec = try_spec_from_cli(&cli)?;
+        let cli_spec = try_spec_from_cli(&cli)?;

-    let compute_node = ComputeNode::new(
-        ComputeNodeParams {
-            compute_id: cli.compute_id,
-            connstr,
-            pgdata: cli.pgdata.clone(),
-            pgbin: cli.pgbin.clone(),
-            pgversion: get_pg_version_string(&cli.pgbin),
-            external_http_port: cli.external_http_port,
-            internal_http_port: cli.internal_http_port,
-            ext_remote_storage: cli.remote_ext_config.clone(),
-            resize_swap_on_bind: cli.resize_swap_on_bind,
-            set_disk_quota_for_fs: cli.set_disk_quota_for_fs,
-            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
-            filecache_connstr: cli.filecache_connstr,
-            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
-            cgroup: cli.cgroup,
-            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
-            vm_monitor_addr: cli.vm_monitor_addr,
-            live_config_allowed: cli_spec.live_config_allowed,
-        },
-        cli_spec.spec,
-        cli_spec.compute_ctl_config,
-    )?;
+        let compute = wait_spec(build_tag, &cli, cli_spec)?;

-    let exit_code = compute_node.run()?;
+        start_postgres(&cli, compute)?
+
+        // Startup is finished, exit the startup tracing span
+    };
+
+    // PostgreSQL is now running, if startup was successful. Wait until it exits.
+    let wait_pg_result = wait_postgres(pg_handle)?;
+
+    let delay_exit = cleanup_after_postgres_exit(start_pg_result)?;
+
+    maybe_delay_exit(delay_exit);

    scenario.teardown();

-    deinit_and_exit(exit_code);
+    deinit_and_exit(wait_pg_result);
 }

-async fn init() -> Result<()> {
+async fn init() -> Result<String> {
    init_tracing_and_logging(DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL).await?;

    let mut signals = Signals::new([SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT])?;
@@ -195,9 +199,62 @@ async fn init() -> Result<()> {
        }
    });

-    info!("compute build_tag: {}", &BUILD_TAG.to_string());
+    let build_tag = option_env!("BUILD_TAG")
+        .unwrap_or(BUILD_TAG_DEFAULT)
+        .to_string();
+    info!("build_tag: {build_tag}");

-    Ok(())
+    Ok(build_tag)
+}
+
+fn startup_context_from_env() -> Option<opentelemetry::ContextGuard> {
+    // Extract OpenTelemetry context for the startup actions from the
+    // TRACEPARENT and TRACESTATE env variables, and attach it to the current
+    // tracing context.
+    //
+    // This is used to propagate the context for the 'start_compute' operation
+    // from the neon control plane. This allows linking together the wider
+    // 'start_compute' operation that creates the compute container, with the
+    // startup actions here within the container.
+    //
+    // There is no standard for passing context in env variables, but a lot of
+    // tools use TRACEPARENT/TRACESTATE, so we use that convention too. See
+    // https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/740
+    //
+    // Switch to the startup context here, and exit it once the startup has
+    // completed and Postgres is up and running.
+    //
+    // If this pod is pre-created without binding it to any particular endpoint
+    // yet, this isn't the right place to enter the startup context. In that
+    // case, the control plane should pass the tracing context as part of the
+    // /configure API call.
+    //
+    // NOTE: This is supposed to only cover the *startup* actions. Once
+    // postgres is configured and up-and-running, we exit this span. Any other
+    // actions that are performed on incoming HTTP requests, for example, are
+    // performed in separate spans.
+    //
+    // XXX: If the pod is restarted, we perform the startup actions in the same
+    // context as the original startup actions, which probably doesn't make
+    // sense.
+    let mut startup_tracing_carrier: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();
+    if let Ok(val) = std::env::var("TRACEPARENT") {
+        startup_tracing_carrier.insert("traceparent".to_string(), val);
+    }
+    if let Ok(val) = std::env::var("TRACESTATE") {
+        startup_tracing_carrier.insert("tracestate".to_string(), val);
+    }
+    if !startup_tracing_carrier.is_empty() {
+        use opentelemetry::propagation::TextMapPropagator;
+        use opentelemetry_sdk::propagation::TraceContextPropagator;
+        let guard = TraceContextPropagator::new()
+            .extract(&startup_tracing_carrier)
+            .attach();
+        info!("startup tracing context attached");
+        Some(guard)
+    } else {
+        None
+    }
 }

 fn try_spec_from_cli(cli: &Cli) -> Result<CliSpecParams> {
@@ -250,7 +307,357 @@ struct CliSpecParams {
    live_config_allowed: bool,
 }

-fn deinit_and_exit(exit_code: Option<i32>) -> ! {
+fn wait_spec(
+    build_tag: String,
+    cli: &Cli,
+    CliSpecParams {
+        spec,
+        live_config_allowed,
+        compute_ctl_config: _,
+    }: CliSpecParams,
+) -> Result<Arc<ComputeNode>> {
+    let mut new_state = ComputeState::new();
+    let spec_set;
+
+    if let Some(spec) = spec {
+        let pspec = ParsedSpec::try_from(spec).map_err(|msg| anyhow::anyhow!(msg))?;
+        info!("new pspec.spec: {:?}", pspec.spec);
+        new_state.pspec = Some(pspec);
+        spec_set = true;
+    } else {
+        spec_set = false;
+    }
+    let connstr = Url::parse(&cli.connstr).context("cannot parse connstr as a URL")?;
+    let conn_conf = postgres::config::Config::from_str(connstr.as_str())
+        .context("cannot build postgres config from connstr")?;
+    let tokio_conn_conf = tokio_postgres::config::Config::from_str(connstr.as_str())
+        .context("cannot build tokio postgres config from connstr")?;
+    let compute_node = ComputeNode {
+        compute_id: cli.compute_id.clone(),
+        connstr,
+        conn_conf,
+        tokio_conn_conf,
+        pgdata: cli.pgdata.clone(),
+        pgbin: cli.pgbin.clone(),
+        pgversion: get_pg_version_string(&cli.pgbin),
+        external_http_port: cli.external_http_port,
+        internal_http_port: cli.internal_http_port,
+        live_config_allowed,
+        state: Mutex::new(new_state),
+        state_changed: Condvar::new(),
+        ext_remote_storage: cli.remote_ext_config.clone(),
+        ext_download_progress: RwLock::new(HashMap::new()),
+        build_tag,
+    };
+    let compute = Arc::new(compute_node);
+
+    // If this is a pooled VM, prewarm before starting HTTP server and becoming
+    // available for binding. Prewarming helps Postgres start quicker later,
+    // because QEMU will already have its memory allocated from the host, and
+    // the necessary binaries will already be cached.
+    if !spec_set {
+        compute.prewarm_postgres()?;
+    }
+
+    // Launch the external HTTP server first, so that we can serve control plane
+    // requests while configuration is still in progress.
+    Server::External(cli.external_http_port).launch(&compute);
+
+    // The internal HTTP server could be launched later, but there isn't much
+    // sense in waiting.
+    Server::Internal(cli.internal_http_port).launch(&compute);
+
+    if !spec_set {
+        // No spec provided, hang waiting for it.
+        info!("no compute spec provided, waiting");
+
+        let mut state = compute.state.lock().unwrap();
+        while state.status != ComputeStatus::ConfigurationPending {
+            state = compute.state_changed.wait(state).unwrap();
+
+            if state.status == ComputeStatus::ConfigurationPending {
+                info!("got spec, continue configuration");
+                // Spec is already set by the http server handler.
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Record for how long we slept waiting for the spec.
+        let now = Utc::now();
+        state.metrics.wait_for_spec_ms = now
+            .signed_duration_since(state.start_time)
+            .to_std()
+            .unwrap()
+            .as_millis() as u64;
+
+        // Reset start time, so that the total startup time that is calculated later will
+        // not include the time that we waited for the spec.
+        state.start_time = now;
+    }
+
+    launch_lsn_lease_bg_task_for_static(&compute);
+
+    Ok(compute)
+}
+
+fn start_postgres(
+    cli: &Cli,
+    compute: Arc<ComputeNode>,
+) -> Result<(Option<PostgresHandle>, StartPostgresResult)> {
+    // We got all we need, update the state.
+    let mut state = compute.state.lock().unwrap();
+
+    // Create a tracing span for the startup operation.
+    //
+    // We could otherwise just annotate the function with #[instrument], but if
+    // we're being configured from a /configure HTTP request, we want the
+    // startup to be considered part of the /configure request.
+    let _this_entered = {
+        // Temporarily enter the /configure request's span, so that the new span
+        // becomes its child.
+        let _parent_entered = state.startup_span.take().map(|p| p.entered());
+
+        tracing::info_span!("start_postgres")
+    }
+    .entered();
+
+    state.set_status(ComputeStatus::Init, &compute.state_changed);
+
+    info!(
+        "running compute with features: {:?}",
+        state.pspec.as_ref().unwrap().spec.features
+    );
+    // before we release the mutex, fetch some parameters for later.
+    let &ComputeSpec {
+        swap_size_bytes,
+        disk_quota_bytes,
+        #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+        disable_lfc_resizing,
+        ..
+    } = &state.pspec.as_ref().unwrap().spec;
+    drop(state);
+
+    // Launch remaining service threads
+    let _monitor_handle = launch_monitor(&compute);
+    let _configurator_handle = launch_configurator(&compute);
+
+    let mut prestartup_failed = false;
+    let mut delay_exit = false;
+
+    // Resize swap to the desired size if the compute spec says so
+    if let (Some(size_bytes), true) = (swap_size_bytes, cli.resize_swap_on_bind) {
+        // To avoid 'swapoff' hitting postgres startup, we need to run resize-swap to completion
+        // *before* starting postgres.
+        //
+        // In theory, we could do this asynchronously if SkipSwapon was enabled for VMs, but this
+        // carries a risk of introducing hard-to-debug issues - e.g. if postgres sometimes gets
+        // OOM-killed during startup because swap wasn't available yet.
+        match resize_swap(size_bytes) {
+            Ok(()) => {
+                let size_mib = size_bytes as f32 / (1 << 20) as f32; // just for more coherent display.
+                info!(%size_bytes, %size_mib, "resized swap");
+            }
+            Err(err) => {
+                let err = err.context("failed to resize swap");
+                error!("{err:#}");
+
+                // Mark compute startup as failed; don't try to start postgres, and report this
+                // error to the control plane when it next asks.
+                prestartup_failed = true;
+                compute.set_failed_status(err);
+                delay_exit = true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Set disk quota if the compute spec says so
+    if let (Some(disk_quota_bytes), Some(disk_quota_fs_mountpoint)) =
+        (disk_quota_bytes, cli.set_disk_quota_for_fs.as_ref())
+    {
+        match set_disk_quota(disk_quota_bytes, disk_quota_fs_mountpoint) {
+            Ok(()) => {
+                let size_mib = disk_quota_bytes as f32 / (1 << 20) as f32; // just for more coherent display.
+                info!(%disk_quota_bytes, %size_mib, "set disk quota");
+            }
+            Err(err) => {
+                let err = err.context("failed to set disk quota");
+                error!("{err:#}");
+
+                // Mark compute startup as failed; don't try to start postgres, and report this
+                // error to the control plane when it next asks.
+                prestartup_failed = true;
+                compute.set_failed_status(err);
+                delay_exit = true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Start Postgres
+    let mut pg = None;
+    if !prestartup_failed {
+        pg = match compute.start_compute() {
+            Ok(pg) => {
+                info!(postmaster_pid = %pg.0.id(), "Postgres was started");
+                Some(pg)
+            }
+            Err(err) => {
+                error!("could not start the compute node: {:#}", err);
+                compute.set_failed_status(err);
+                delay_exit = true;
+                None
+            }
+        };
+    } else {
+        warn!("skipping postgres startup because pre-startup step failed");
+    }
+
+    // Start the vm-monitor if directed to. The vm-monitor only runs on linux
+    // because it requires cgroups.
+    cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+        if #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] {
+            use std::env;
+            use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
+
+            // This token is used internally by the monitor to clean up all threads
+            let token = CancellationToken::new();
+
+            // don't pass postgres connection string to vm-monitor if we don't want it to resize LFC
+            let pgconnstr = if disable_lfc_resizing.unwrap_or(false) {
+                None
+            } else {
+                Some(cli.filecache_connstr.clone())
+            };
+
+            let vm_monitor = if env::var_os("AUTOSCALING").is_some() {
+                let vm_monitor = tokio::spawn(vm_monitor::start(
+                    Box::leak(Box::new(vm_monitor::Args {
+                        cgroup: Some(cli.cgroup.clone()),
+                        pgconnstr,
+                        addr: cli.vm_monitor_addr.clone(),
+                    })),
+                    token.clone(),
+                ));
+                Some(vm_monitor)
+            } else {
+                None
+            };
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok((
+        pg,
+        StartPostgresResult {
+            delay_exit,
+            compute,
+            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+            token,
+            #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+            vm_monitor,
+        },
+    ))
+}
+
+type PostgresHandle = (std::process::Child, tokio::task::JoinHandle<Result<()>>);
+
+struct StartPostgresResult {
+    delay_exit: bool,
+    // passed through from WaitSpecResult
+    compute: Arc<ComputeNode>,
+
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    token: tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken,
+    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+    vm_monitor: Option<tokio::task::JoinHandle<Result<()>>>,
+}
+
+fn wait_postgres(pg: Option<PostgresHandle>) -> Result<WaitPostgresResult> {
+    // Wait for the child Postgres process forever. In this state Ctrl+C will
+    // propagate to Postgres and it will be shut down as well.
+    let mut exit_code = None;
+    if let Some((mut pg, logs_handle)) = pg {
+        info!(postmaster_pid = %pg.id(), "Waiting for Postgres to exit");
+
+        let ecode = pg
+            .wait()
+            .expect("failed to start waiting on Postgres process");
+        PG_PID.store(0, Ordering::SeqCst);
+
+        // Process has exited. Wait for the log collecting task to finish.
+        let _ = tokio::runtime::Handle::current()
+            .block_on(logs_handle)
+            .map_err(|e| tracing::error!("log task panicked: {:?}", e));
+
+        info!("Postgres exited with code {}, shutting down", ecode);
+        exit_code = ecode.code()
+    }
+
+    Ok(WaitPostgresResult { exit_code })
+}
+
+struct WaitPostgresResult {
+    exit_code: Option<i32>,
+}
+
+fn cleanup_after_postgres_exit(
+    StartPostgresResult {
+        mut delay_exit,
+        compute,
+        #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+        vm_monitor,
+        #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+        token,
+    }: StartPostgresResult,
+) -> Result<bool> {
+    // Terminate the vm_monitor so it releases the file watcher on
+    // /sys/fs/cgroup/neon-postgres.
+    // Note: the vm-monitor only runs on linux because it requires cgroups.
+    cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+        if #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] {
+            if let Some(handle) = vm_monitor {
+                // Kills all threads spawned by the monitor
+                token.cancel();
+                // Kills the actual task running the monitor
+                handle.abort();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Maybe sync safekeepers again, to speed up next startup
+    let compute_state = compute.state.lock().unwrap().clone();
+    let pspec = compute_state.pspec.as_ref().expect("spec must be set");
+    if matches!(pspec.spec.mode, compute_api::spec::ComputeMode::Primary) {
+        info!("syncing safekeepers on shutdown");
+        let storage_auth_token = pspec.storage_auth_token.clone();
+        let lsn = compute.sync_safekeepers(storage_auth_token)?;
+        info!("synced safekeepers at lsn {lsn}");
+    }
+
+    let mut state = compute.state.lock().unwrap();
+    if state.status == ComputeStatus::TerminationPending {
+        state.status = ComputeStatus::Terminated;
+        compute.state_changed.notify_all();
+        // we were asked to terminate gracefully, don't exit to avoid restart
+        delay_exit = true
+    }
+    drop(state);
+
+    if let Err(err) = compute.check_for_core_dumps() {
+        error!("error while checking for core dumps: {err:?}");
+    }
+
+    Ok(delay_exit)
+}
+
+fn maybe_delay_exit(delay_exit: bool) {
+    // If launch failed, keep serving HTTP requests for a while, so the cloud
+    // control plane can get the actual error.
+    if delay_exit {
+        info!("giving control plane 30s to collect the error before shutdown");
+        thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(30));
+    }
+}
+
+fn deinit_and_exit(WaitPostgresResult { exit_code }: WaitPostgresResult) -> ! {
    // Shutdown trace pipeline gracefully, so that it has a chance to send any
    // pending traces before we exit. Shutting down OTEL tracing provider may
    // hang for quite some time, see, for example:
--- a/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/bin/fast_import.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
 use compute_tools::extension_server::{PostgresMajorVersion, get_pg_version};
 use nix::unistd::Pid;
-use std::ops::Not;
 use tracing::{Instrument, error, info, info_span, warn};
 use utils::fs_ext::is_directory_empty;

@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ mod s3_uri;
 const PG_WAIT_TIMEOUT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(600);
 const PG_WAIT_RETRY_INTERVAL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_millis(300);

-#[derive(Subcommand, Debug, Clone, serde::Serialize)]
+#[derive(Subcommand, Debug)]
 enum Command {
    /// Runs local postgres (neon binary), restores into it,
    /// uploads pgdata to s3 to be consumed by pageservers
@@ -85,15 +84,6 @@ enum Command {
    },
 }

-impl Command {
-    fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str {
-        match self {
-            Command::Pgdata { .. } => "pgdata",
-            Command::DumpRestore { .. } => "dump-restore",
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 #[derive(clap::Parser)]
 struct Args {
    #[clap(long, env = "NEON_IMPORTER_WORKDIR")]
@@ -447,7 +437,7 @@ async fn run_dump_restore(

 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 async fn cmd_pgdata(
-    s3_client: Option<&aws_sdk_s3::Client>,
+    s3_client: Option<aws_sdk_s3::Client>,
    kms_client: Option<aws_sdk_kms::Client>,
    maybe_s3_prefix: Option<s3_uri::S3Uri>,
    maybe_spec: Option<Spec>,
@@ -516,14 +506,14 @@ async fn cmd_pgdata(
    if let Some(s3_prefix) = maybe_s3_prefix {
        info!("upload pgdata");
        aws_s3_sync::upload_dir_recursive(
-            s3_client.unwrap(),
+            s3_client.as_ref().unwrap(),
            Utf8Path::new(&pgdata_dir),
            &s3_prefix.append("/pgdata/"),
        )
        .await
        .context("sync dump directory to destination")?;

-        info!("write pgdata status to s3");
+        info!("write status");
        {
            let status_dir = workdir.join("status");
            std::fs::create_dir(&status_dir).context("create status directory")?;
@@ -560,15 +550,13 @@ async fn cmd_dumprestore(
                    &key_id,
                    spec.source_connstring_ciphertext_base64,
                )
-                .await
-                .context("decrypt source connection string")?;
+                .await?;

                let dest = if let Some(dest_ciphertext) =
                    spec.destination_connstring_ciphertext_base64
                {
                    decode_connstring(kms_client.as_ref().unwrap(), &key_id, dest_ciphertext)
-                        .await
-                        .context("decrypt destination connection string")?
+                        .await?
                } else {
                    bail!(
                        "destination connection string must be provided in spec for dump_restore command"
@@ -613,18 +601,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {

    // Initialize AWS clients only if s3_prefix is specified
    let (s3_client, kms_client) = if args.s3_prefix.is_some() {
-        // Create AWS config with enhanced retry settings
-        let config = aws_config::defaults(BehaviorVersion::v2024_03_28())
-            .retry_config(
-                aws_config::retry::RetryConfig::standard()
-                    .with_max_attempts(5) // Retry up to 5 times
-                    .with_initial_backoff(std::time::Duration::from_millis(200)) // Start with 200ms delay
-                    .with_max_backoff(std::time::Duration::from_secs(5)), // Cap at 5 seconds
-            )
-            .load()
-            .await;
-
-        // Create clients from the config with enhanced retry settings
+        let config = aws_config::load_defaults(BehaviorVersion::v2024_03_28()).await;
        let s3_client = aws_sdk_s3::Client::new(&config);
        let kms = aws_sdk_kms::Client::new(&config);
        (Some(s3_client), Some(kms))
@@ -632,108 +609,79 @@ pub(crate) async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        (None, None)
    };

-    // Capture everything from spec assignment onwards to handle errors
-    let res = async {
-        let spec: Option<Spec> = if let Some(s3_prefix) = &args.s3_prefix {
-            let spec_key = s3_prefix.append("/spec.json");
-            let object = s3_client
-                .as_ref()
-                .unwrap()
-                .get_object()
-                .bucket(&spec_key.bucket)
-                .key(spec_key.key)
-                .send()
-                .await
-                .context("get spec from s3")?
-                .body
-                .collect()
-                .await
-                .context("download spec body")?;
-            serde_json::from_slice(&object.into_bytes()).context("parse spec as json")?
-        } else {
-            None
-        };
+    let spec: Option<Spec> = if let Some(s3_prefix) = &args.s3_prefix {
+        let spec_key = s3_prefix.append("/spec.json");
+        let object = s3_client
+            .as_ref()
+            .unwrap()
+            .get_object()
+            .bucket(&spec_key.bucket)
+            .key(spec_key.key)
+            .send()
+            .await
+            .context("get spec from s3")?
+            .body
+            .collect()
+            .await
+            .context("download spec body")?;
+        serde_json::from_slice(&object.into_bytes()).context("parse spec as json")?
+    } else {
+        None
+    };

-        match tokio::fs::create_dir(&args.working_directory).await {
-            Ok(()) => {}
-            Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => {
-                if !is_directory_empty(&args.working_directory)
-                    .await
-                    .context("check if working directory is empty")?
-                {
-                    bail!("working directory is not empty");
-                } else {
-                    // ok
-                }
+    match tokio::fs::create_dir(&args.working_directory).await {
+        Ok(()) => {}
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => {
+            if !is_directory_empty(&args.working_directory)
+                .await
+                .context("check if working directory is empty")?
+            {
+                bail!("working directory is not empty");
+            } else {
+                // ok
            }
-            Err(e) => return Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("create working directory")),
        }
+        Err(e) => return Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("create working directory")),
+    }

-        match args.command.clone() {
-            Command::Pgdata {
+    match args.command {
+        Command::Pgdata {
+            source_connection_string,
+            interactive,
+            pg_port,
+            num_cpus,
+            memory_mb,
+        } => {
+            cmd_pgdata(
+                s3_client,
+                kms_client,
+                args.s3_prefix,
+                spec,
                source_connection_string,
                interactive,
                pg_port,
+                args.working_directory,
+                args.pg_bin_dir,
+                args.pg_lib_dir,
                num_cpus,
                memory_mb,
-            } => {
-                cmd_pgdata(
-                    s3_client.as_ref(),
-                    kms_client,
-                    args.s3_prefix.clone(),
-                    spec,
-                    source_connection_string,
-                    interactive,
-                    pg_port,
-                    args.working_directory.clone(),
-                    args.pg_bin_dir,
-                    args.pg_lib_dir,
-                    num_cpus,
-                    memory_mb,
-                )
-                .await
-            }
-            Command::DumpRestore {
+            )
+            .await?;
+        }
+        Command::DumpRestore {
+            source_connection_string,
+            destination_connection_string,
+        } => {
+            cmd_dumprestore(
+                kms_client,
+                spec,
                source_connection_string,
                destination_connection_string,
-            } => {
-                cmd_dumprestore(
-                    kms_client,
-                    spec,
-                    source_connection_string,
-                    destination_connection_string,
-                    args.working_directory.clone(),
-                    args.pg_bin_dir,
-                    args.pg_lib_dir,
-                )
-                .await
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    .await;
-
-    if let Some(s3_prefix) = args.s3_prefix {
-        info!("write job status to s3");
-        {
-            let status_dir = args.working_directory.join("status");
-            if std::fs::exists(&status_dir)?.not() {
-                std::fs::create_dir(&status_dir).context("create status directory")?;
-            }
-            let status_file = status_dir.join("fast_import");
-            let res_obj = match res {
-                Ok(_) => serde_json::json!({"command": args.command.as_str(), "done": true}),
-                Err(err) => {
-                    serde_json::json!({"command": args.command.as_str(), "done": false, "error": err.to_string()})
-                }
-            };
-            std::fs::write(&status_file, res_obj.to_string()).context("write status file")?;
-            aws_s3_sync::upload_dir_recursive(
-                s3_client.as_ref().unwrap(),
-                &status_dir,
-                &s3_prefix.append("/status/"),
+                args.working_directory,
+                args.pg_bin_dir,
+                args.pg_lib_dir,
            )
-            .await
-            .context("sync status directory to destination")?;
+            .await?;
        }
    }

--- a/compute_tools/src/catalog.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/catalog.rs
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ pub async fn get_database_schema(
    compute: &Arc<ComputeNode>,
    dbname: &str,
 ) -> Result<impl Stream<Item = Result<bytes::Bytes, std::io::Error>> + use<>, SchemaDumpError> {
-    let pgbin = &compute.params.pgbin;
+    let pgbin = &compute.pgbin;
    let basepath = Path::new(pgbin).parent().unwrap();
    let pgdump = basepath.join("pg_dump");

    // Replace the DB in the connection string and disable it to parts.
    // This is the only option to handle DBs with special characters.
-    let conf = postgres_conf_for_db(&compute.params.connstr, dbname)
-        .map_err(|_| SchemaDumpError::Unexpected)?;
+    let conf =
+        postgres_conf_for_db(&compute.connstr, dbname).map_err(|_| SchemaDumpError::Unexpected)?;
    let host = conf
        .get_hosts()
        .first()
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
--- a/compute_tools/src/config.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/config.rs
@@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
-use anyhow::Result;
-use std::fmt::Write as FmtWrite;
 use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
 use std::io;
-use std::io::Write;
 use std::io::prelude::*;
 use std::path::Path;

-use compute_api::responses::TlsConfig;
-use compute_api::spec::{ComputeAudit, ComputeFeature, ComputeMode, ComputeSpec, GenericOption};
+use anyhow::Result;
+use compute_api::spec::{ComputeMode, ComputeSpec, GenericOption};

-use crate::pg_helpers::{
-    GenericOptionExt, GenericOptionsSearch, PgOptionsSerialize, escape_conf_value,
-};
-use crate::tls::{self, SERVER_CRT, SERVER_KEY};
+use crate::pg_helpers::{GenericOptionExt, PgOptionsSerialize, escape_conf_value};

 /// Check that `line` is inside a text file and put it there if it is not.
 /// Create file if it doesn't exist.
@@ -40,12 +34,10 @@ pub fn line_in_file(path: &Path, line: &str) -> Result<bool> {

 /// Create or completely rewrite configuration file specified by `path`
 pub fn write_postgres_conf(
-    pgdata_path: &Path,
+    path: &Path,
    spec: &ComputeSpec,
    extension_server_port: u16,
-    tls_config: &Option<TlsConfig>,
 ) -> Result<()> {
-    let path = pgdata_path.join("postgresql.conf");
    // File::create() destroys the file content if it exists.
    let mut file = File::create(path)?;

@@ -63,20 +55,10 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "neon.stripe_size={stripe_size}")?;
    }
    if !spec.safekeeper_connstrings.is_empty() {
-        let mut neon_safekeepers_value = String::new();
-        tracing::info!(
-            "safekeepers_connstrings is not zero, gen: {:?}",
-            spec.safekeepers_generation
-        );
-        // If generation is given, prepend sk list with g#number:
-        if let Some(generation) = spec.safekeepers_generation {
-            write!(neon_safekeepers_value, "g#{}:", generation)?;
-        }
-        neon_safekeepers_value.push_str(&spec.safekeeper_connstrings.join(","));
        writeln!(
            file,
            "neon.safekeepers={}",
-            escape_conf_value(&neon_safekeepers_value)
+            escape_conf_value(&spec.safekeeper_connstrings.join(","))
        )?;
    }
    if let Some(s) = &spec.tenant_id {
@@ -90,20 +72,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        )?;
    }

-    // tls
-    if let Some(tls_config) = tls_config {
-        writeln!(file, "ssl = on")?;
-
-        // postgres requires the keyfile to be in a secure file,
-        // currently too complicated to ensure that at the VM level,
-        // so we just copy them to another file instead. :shrug:
-        tls::update_key_path_blocking(pgdata_path, tls_config);
-
-        // these are the default, but good to be explicit.
-        writeln!(file, "ssl_cert_file = '{}'", SERVER_CRT)?;
-        writeln!(file, "ssl_key_file = '{}'", SERVER_KEY)?;
-    }
-
    // Locales
    if cfg!(target_os = "macos") {
        writeln!(file, "lc_messages='C'")?;
@@ -117,7 +85,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "lc_numeric='C.UTF-8'")?;
    }

-    writeln!(file, "neon.compute_mode={}", spec.mode.to_type_str())?;
    match spec.mode {
        ComputeMode::Primary => {}
        ComputeMode::Static(lsn) => {
@@ -159,91 +126,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl: end")?;
    }

-    // If base audit logging is enabled, configure it.
-    // In this setup, the audit log will be written to the standard postgresql log.
-    //
-    // If compliance audit logging is enabled, configure pgaudit.
-    //
-    // Note, that this is called after the settings from spec are written.
-    // This way we always override the settings from the spec
-    // and don't allow the user or the control plane admin to change them.
-    match spec.audit_log_level {
-        ComputeAudit::Disabled => {}
-        ComputeAudit::Log => {
-            writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl base audit settings: start")?;
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log='ddl,role'")?;
-            // Disable logging of catalog queries to reduce the noise
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_catalog=off")?;
-
-            if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
-                let mut extra_shared_preload_libraries = String::new();
-                if !libs.contains("pgaudit") {
-                    extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgaudit");
-                }
-                writeln!(
-                    file,
-                    "shared_preload_libraries='{}{}'",
-                    libs, extra_shared_preload_libraries
-                )?;
-            } else {
-                // Typically, this should be unreacheable,
-                // because we always set at least some shared_preload_libraries in the spec
-                // but let's handle it explicitly anyway.
-                writeln!(file, "shared_preload_libraries='neon,pgaudit'")?;
-            }
-            writeln!(file, "# Managed by compute_ctl base audit settings: end")?;
-        }
-        ComputeAudit::Hipaa => {
-            writeln!(
-                file,
-                "# Managed by compute_ctl compliance audit settings: begin"
-            )?;
-            // This log level is very verbose
-            // but this is necessary for HIPAA compliance.
-            // Exclude 'misc' category, because it doesn't contain anythig relevant.
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log='all, -misc'")?;
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_parameter=on")?;
-            // Disable logging of catalog queries
-            // The catalog doesn't contain sensitive data, so we don't need to audit it.
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_catalog=off")?;
-            // Set log rotation to 5 minutes
-            // TODO: tune this after performance testing
-            writeln!(file, "pgaudit.log_rotation_age=5")?;
-
-            // Add audit shared_preload_libraries, if they are not present.
-            //
-            // The caller who sets the flag is responsible for ensuring that the necessary
-            // shared_preload_libraries are present in the compute image,
-            // otherwise the compute start will fail.
-            if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
-                let mut extra_shared_preload_libraries = String::new();
-                if !libs.contains("pgaudit") {
-                    extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgaudit");
-                }
-                if !libs.contains("pgauditlogtofile") {
-                    extra_shared_preload_libraries.push_str(",pgauditlogtofile");
-                }
-                writeln!(
-                    file,
-                    "shared_preload_libraries='{}{}'",
-                    libs, extra_shared_preload_libraries
-                )?;
-            } else {
-                // Typically, this should be unreacheable,
-                // because we always set at least some shared_preload_libraries in the spec
-                // but let's handle it explicitly anyway.
-                writeln!(
-                    file,
-                    "shared_preload_libraries='neon,pgaudit,pgauditlogtofile'"
-                )?;
-            }
-            writeln!(
-                file,
-                "# Managed by compute_ctl compliance audit settings: end"
-            )?;
-        }
-    }
-
    writeln!(file, "neon.extension_server_port={}", extension_server_port)?;

    if spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start {
@@ -253,12 +135,6 @@ pub fn write_postgres_conf(
        writeln!(file, "neon.disable_logical_replication_subscribers=false")?;
    }

-    // We need Postgres to send logs to rsyslog so that we can forward them
-    // further to customers' log aggregation systems.
-    if spec.features.contains(&ComputeFeature::PostgresLogsExport) {
-        writeln!(file, "log_destination='stderr,syslog'")?;
-    }
-
    // This is essential to keep this line at the end of the file,
    // because it is intended to override any settings above.
    writeln!(file, "include_if_exists = 'compute_ctl_temp_override.conf'")?;
--- a/compute_tools/src/config_template/compute_audit_rsyslog_template.conf
+++ b/compute_tools/src/config_template/compute_audit_rsyslog_template.conf
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Load imfile module to read log files
-module(load="imfile")
-
-# Input configuration for log files in the specified directory
-# Replace {log_directory} with the directory containing the log files
-input(type="imfile" File="{log_directory}/*.log" Tag="{tag}" Severity="info" Facility="local0")
-# the directory to store rsyslog state files
-global(workDirectory="/var/log/rsyslog")
-
-# Forward logs to remote syslog server
-*.* @@{remote_endpoint}
--- a/compute_tools/src/config_template/compute_rsyslog_postgres_export_template.conf
+++ b/compute_tools/src/config_template/compute_rsyslog_postgres_export_template.conf
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# Program name comes from postgres' syslog_facility configuration: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-logging.html#GUC-SYSLOG-IDENT
-# Default value is 'postgres'.
-if $programname == 'postgres' then {{
-    # Forward Postgres logs to telemetry otel collector
-    action(type="omfwd" target="{logs_export_target}" port="{logs_export_port}" protocol="tcp"
-           template="RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format"
-           action.resumeRetryCount="3"
-           queue.type="linkedList" queue.size="1000")
-    stop
-}}
--- a/compute_tools/src/extension_server.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/extension_server.rs
@@ -202,24 +202,8 @@ pub async fn download_extension(
    // move contents of the libdir / sharedir in unzipped archive to the correct local paths
    for paths in [sharedir_paths, libdir_paths] {
        let (zip_dir, real_dir) = paths;
-
-        let dir = match std::fs::read_dir(&zip_dir) {
-            Ok(dir) => dir,
-            Err(e) => match e.kind() {
-                // In the event of a SQL-only extension, there would be nothing
-                // to move from the lib/ directory, so note that in the log and
-                // move on.
-                std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
-                    info!("nothing to move from {}", zip_dir);
-                    continue;
-                }
-                _ => return Err(anyhow::anyhow!(e)),
-            },
-        };
-
        info!("mv {zip_dir:?}/*  {real_dir:?}");
-
-        for file in dir {
+        for file in std::fs::read_dir(zip_dir)? {
            let old_file = file?.path();
            let new_file =
                Path::new(&real_dir).join(old_file.file_name().context("error parsing file")?);
@@ -269,31 +253,27 @@ pub fn create_control_files(remote_extensions: &RemoteExtSpec, pgbin: &str) {
    }
 }

-// Do request to extension storage proxy, e.g.,
+// Do request to extension storage proxy, i.e.
 // curl http://pg-ext-s3-gateway/latest/v15/extensions/anon.tar.zst
-// using HTTP GET and return the response body as bytes.
+// using HHTP GET
+// and return the response body as bytes
+//
 async fn download_extension_tar(ext_remote_storage: &str, ext_path: &str) -> Result<Bytes> {
    let uri = format!("{}/{}", ext_remote_storage, ext_path);
-    let filename = Path::new(ext_path)
-        .file_name()
-        .unwrap_or_else(|| std::ffi::OsStr::new("unknown"))
-        .to_str()
-        .unwrap_or("unknown")
-        .to_string();

-    info!("Downloading extension file '{}' from uri {}", filename, uri);
+    info!("Download extension {} from uri {}", ext_path, uri);

    match do_extension_server_request(&uri).await {
        Ok(resp) => {
            info!("Successfully downloaded remote extension data {}", ext_path);
            REMOTE_EXT_REQUESTS_TOTAL
-                .with_label_values(&[&StatusCode::OK.to_string(), &filename])
+                .with_label_values(&[&StatusCode::OK.to_string()])
                .inc();
            Ok(resp)
        }
        Err((msg, status)) => {
            REMOTE_EXT_REQUESTS_TOTAL
-                .with_label_values(&[&status, &filename])
+                .with_label_values(&[&status])
                .inc();
            bail!(msg);
        }
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/extract/mod.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/extract/mod.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 pub(crate) mod json;
 pub(crate) mod path;
 pub(crate) mod query;
-pub(crate) mod request_id;

 pub(crate) use json::Json;
 pub(crate) use path::Path;
 pub(crate) use query::Query;
-pub(crate) use request_id::RequestId;
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/extract/request_id.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/extract/request_id.rs
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-use std::{
-    fmt::Display,
-    ops::{Deref, DerefMut},
-};
-
-use axum::{extract::FromRequestParts, response::IntoResponse};
-use http::{StatusCode, request::Parts};
-
-use crate::http::{JsonResponse, headers::X_REQUEST_ID};
-
-/// Extract the request ID from the `X-Request-Id` header.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
-pub(crate) struct RequestId(pub String);
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-/// Rejection used for [`RequestId`].
-///
-/// Contains one variant for each way the [`RequestId`] extractor can
-/// fail.
-pub(crate) enum RequestIdRejection {
-    /// The request is missing the header.
-    MissingRequestId,
-
-    /// The value of the header is invalid UTF-8.
-    InvalidUtf8,
-}
-
-impl RequestIdRejection {
-    pub fn status(&self) -> StatusCode {
-        match self {
-            RequestIdRejection::MissingRequestId => StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
-            RequestIdRejection::InvalidUtf8 => StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub fn message(&self) -> String {
-        match self {
-            RequestIdRejection::MissingRequestId => "request ID is missing",
-            RequestIdRejection::InvalidUtf8 => "request ID is invalid UTF-8",
-        }
-        .to_string()
-    }
-}
-
-impl IntoResponse for RequestIdRejection {
-    fn into_response(self) -> axum::response::Response {
-        JsonResponse::error(self.status(), self.message())
-    }
-}
-
-impl<S> FromRequestParts<S> for RequestId
-where
-    S: Send + Sync,
-{
-    type Rejection = RequestIdRejection;
-
-    async fn from_request_parts(parts: &mut Parts, _state: &S) -> Result<Self, Self::Rejection> {
-        match parts.headers.get(X_REQUEST_ID) {
-            Some(value) => match value.to_str() {
-                Ok(request_id) => Ok(Self(request_id.to_string())),
-                Err(_) => Err(RequestIdRejection::InvalidUtf8),
-            },
-            None => Err(RequestIdRejection::MissingRequestId),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Deref for RequestId {
-    type Target = String;
-
-    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
-        &self.0
-    }
-}
-
-impl DerefMut for RequestId {
-    fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Target {
-        &mut self.0
-    }
-}
-
-impl Display for RequestId {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        f.write_str(&self.0)
-    }
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/headers.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/headers.rs
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-/// Constant for `X-Request-Id` header.
-pub const X_REQUEST_ID: &str = "x-request-id";
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/middleware/authorize.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/middleware/authorize.rs
@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-use std::{collections::HashSet, net::SocketAddr};
-
-use anyhow::{Result, anyhow};
-use axum::{RequestExt, body::Body, extract::ConnectInfo};
-use axum_extra::{
-    TypedHeader,
-    headers::{Authorization, authorization::Bearer},
-};
-use futures::future::BoxFuture;
-use http::{Request, Response, StatusCode};
-use jsonwebtoken::{Algorithm, DecodingKey, TokenData, Validation, jwk::JwkSet};
-use serde::Deserialize;
-use tower_http::auth::AsyncAuthorizeRequest;
-use tracing::warn;
-
-use crate::http::{JsonResponse, extract::RequestId};
-
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize)]
-pub(in crate::http) struct Claims {
-    compute_id: String,
-}
-
-#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-pub(in crate::http) struct Authorize {
-    compute_id: String,
-    jwks: JwkSet,
-    validation: Validation,
-}
-
-impl Authorize {
-    pub fn new(compute_id: String, jwks: JwkSet) -> Self {
-        let mut validation = Validation::new(Algorithm::EdDSA);
-        // Nothing is currently required
-        validation.required_spec_claims = HashSet::new();
-        validation.validate_exp = true;
-        // Unused by the control plane
-        validation.validate_aud = false;
-        // Unused by the control plane
-        validation.validate_nbf = false;
-
-        Self {
-            compute_id,
-            jwks,
-            validation,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl AsyncAuthorizeRequest<Body> for Authorize {
-    type RequestBody = Body;
-    type ResponseBody = Body;
-    type Future = BoxFuture<'static, Result<Request<Body>, Response<Self::ResponseBody>>>;
-
-    fn authorize(&mut self, mut request: Request<Body>) -> Self::Future {
-        let compute_id = self.compute_id.clone();
-        let jwks = self.jwks.clone();
-        let validation = self.validation.clone();
-
-        Box::pin(async move {
-            let request_id = request.extract_parts::<RequestId>().await.unwrap();
-
-            // TODO: Remove this stanza after teaching neon_local and the
-            // regression tests to use a JWT + JWKS.
-            //
-            // https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/11316
-            if cfg!(feature = "testing") {
-                warn!(%request_id, "Skipping compute_ctl authorization check");
-
-                return Ok(request);
-            }
-
-            let connect_info = request
-                .extract_parts::<ConnectInfo<SocketAddr>>()
-                .await
-                .unwrap();
-
-            // In the event the request is coming from the loopback interface,
-            // allow all requests
-            if connect_info.ip().is_loopback() {
-                warn!(%request_id, "Bypassed authorization because request is coming from the loopback interface");
-
-                return Ok(request);
-            }
-
-            let TypedHeader(Authorization(bearer)) = request
-                .extract_parts::<TypedHeader<Authorization<Bearer>>>()
-                .await
-                .map_err(|_| {
-                    JsonResponse::error(StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST, "invalid authorization token")
-                })?;
-
-            let data = match Self::verify(&jwks, bearer.token(), &validation) {
-                Ok(claims) => claims,
-                Err(e) => return Err(JsonResponse::error(StatusCode::UNAUTHORIZED, e)),
-            };
-
-            if data.claims.compute_id != compute_id {
-                return Err(JsonResponse::error(
-                    StatusCode::UNAUTHORIZED,
-                    "invalid claims in authorization token",
-                ));
-            }
-
-            // Make claims available to any subsequent middleware or request
-            // handlers
-            request.extensions_mut().insert(data.claims);
-
-            Ok(request)
-        })
-    }
-}
-
-impl Authorize {
-    /// Verify the token using the JSON Web Key set and return the token data.
-    fn verify(jwks: &JwkSet, token: &str, validation: &Validation) -> Result<TokenData<Claims>> {
-        for jwk in jwks.keys.iter() {
-            let decoding_key = match DecodingKey::from_jwk(jwk) {
-                Ok(key) => key,
-                Err(e) => {
-                    warn!(
-                        "Failed to construct decoding key from {}: {}",
-                        jwk.common.key_id.as_ref().unwrap(),
-                        e
-                    );
-
-                    continue;
-                }
-            };
-
-            match jsonwebtoken::decode::<Claims>(token, &decoding_key, validation) {
-                Ok(data) => return Ok(data),
-                Err(e) => {
-                    warn!(
-                        "Failed to decode authorization token using {}: {}",
-                        jwk.common.key_id.as_ref().unwrap(),
-                        e
-                    );
-
-                    continue;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        Err(anyhow!("Failed to verify authorization token"))
-    }
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/middleware/mod.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/middleware/mod.rs
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-pub(in crate::http) mod authorize;
-pub(in crate::http) mod request_id;
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/middleware/request_id.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/middleware/request_id.rs
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-use axum::{extract::Request, middleware::Next, response::Response};
-use uuid::Uuid;
-
-use crate::http::headers::X_REQUEST_ID;
-
-/// This middleware function allows compute_ctl to generate its own request ID
-/// if one isn't supplied. The control plane will always send one as a UUID. The
-/// neon Postgres extension on the other hand does not send one.
-pub async fn maybe_add_request_id_header(mut request: Request, next: Next) -> Response {
-    let headers = request.headers_mut();
-    if !headers.contains_key(X_REQUEST_ID) {
-        headers.append(X_REQUEST_ID, Uuid::new_v4().to_string().parse().unwrap());
-    }
-
-    next.run(request).await
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/mod.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/mod.rs
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ use serde::Serialize;
 use tracing::error;

 mod extract;
-mod headers;
-mod middleware;
 mod routes;
 pub mod server;

--- a/compute_tools/src/http/openapi_spec.yaml
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/openapi_spec.yaml
@@ -306,36 +306,6 @@ paths:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/GenericError"

-  /configure_telemetry:
-    post:
-      tags:
-        - Configure
-      summary: Configure rsyslog
-      description: |
-        This API endpoint configures rsyslog to forward Postgres logs
-        to a specified otel collector.
-      operationId: configureTelemetry
-      requestBody:
-        required: true
-        content:
-          application/json:
-            schema:
-              type: object
-              properties:
-                logs_export_host:
-                  type: string
-                  description: |
-                    Hostname and the port of the otel collector. Leave empty to disable logs forwarding.
-                    Example: config-shy-breeze-123-collector-monitoring.neon-telemetry.svc.cluster.local:54526
-      responses:
-        204:
-          description: "Telemetry configured successfully"
-        500:
-          content:
-            application/json:
-              schema:
-                $ref: "#/components/schemas/GenericError"
-
 components:
  securitySchemes:
    JWT:
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/routes/configure.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/routes/configure.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;

-use axum::body::Body;
 use axum::extract::State;
 use axum::response::Response;
-use compute_api::requests::{ConfigurationRequest, ConfigureTelemetryRequest};
+use compute_api::requests::ConfigurationRequest;
 use compute_api::responses::{ComputeStatus, ComputeStatusResponse};
-use compute_api::spec::ComputeFeature;
 use http::StatusCode;
 use tokio::task;
 use tracing::info;
@@ -13,7 +11,6 @@ use tracing::info;
 use crate::compute::{ComputeNode, ParsedSpec};
 use crate::http::JsonResponse;
 use crate::http::extract::Json;
-use crate::rsyslog::{PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig, configure_postgres_logs_export};

 // Accept spec in JSON format and request compute configuration. If anything
 // goes wrong after we set the compute status to `ConfigurationPending` and
@@ -25,7 +22,7 @@ pub(in crate::http) async fn configure(
    State(compute): State<Arc<ComputeNode>>,
    request: Json<ConfigurationRequest>,
 ) -> Response {
-    if !compute.params.live_config_allowed {
+    if !compute.live_config_allowed {
        return JsonResponse::error(
            StatusCode::PRECONDITION_FAILED,
            "live configuration is not allowed for this compute node".to_string(),
@@ -95,25 +92,3 @@ pub(in crate::http) async fn configure(

    JsonResponse::success(StatusCode::OK, body)
 }
-
-pub(in crate::http) async fn configure_telemetry(
-    State(compute): State<Arc<ComputeNode>>,
-    request: Json<ConfigureTelemetryRequest>,
-) -> Response {
-    if !compute.has_feature(ComputeFeature::PostgresLogsExport) {
-        return JsonResponse::error(
-            StatusCode::PRECONDITION_FAILED,
-            "Postgres logs export feature is not enabled".to_string(),
-        );
-    }
-
-    let conf = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::new(request.logs_export_host.as_deref());
-    if let Err(err) = configure_postgres_logs_export(conf) {
-        return JsonResponse::error(StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, err.to_string());
-    }
-
-    Response::builder()
-        .status(StatusCode::NO_CONTENT)
-        .body(Body::from(""))
-        .unwrap()
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/http/routes/extension_server.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/routes/extension_server.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use axum::response::{IntoResponse, Response};
 use http::StatusCode;
 use serde::Deserialize;

-use crate::compute::{BUILD_TAG, ComputeNode};
+use crate::compute::ComputeNode;
 use crate::http::JsonResponse;
 use crate::http::extract::{Path, Query};

@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ pub(in crate::http) struct ExtensionServerParams {
 /// Download a remote extension.
 pub(in crate::http) async fn download_extension(
    Path(filename): Path<String>,
-    ext_server_params: Query<ExtensionServerParams>,
+    params: Query<ExtensionServerParams>,
    State(compute): State<Arc<ComputeNode>>,
 ) -> Response {
    // Don't even try to download extensions if no remote storage is configured
-    if compute.params.ext_remote_storage.is_none() {
+    if compute.ext_remote_storage.is_none() {
        return JsonResponse::error(
            StatusCode::PRECONDITION_FAILED,
            "remote storage is not configured",
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ pub(in crate::http) async fn download_extension(

        remote_extensions.get_ext(
            &filename,
-            ext_server_params.is_library,
-            &BUILD_TAG,
-            &compute.params.pgversion,
+            params.is_library,
+            &compute.build_tag,
+            &compute.pgversion,
        )
    };

--- a/compute_tools/src/http/server.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/http/server.rs
@@ -5,62 +5,53 @@ use std::time::Duration;

 use anyhow::Result;
 use axum::Router;
-use axum::middleware::{self};
-use axum::response::IntoResponse;
+use axum::extract::Request;
+use axum::middleware::{self, Next};
+use axum::response::{IntoResponse, Response};
 use axum::routing::{get, post};
-use compute_api::responses::ComputeCtlConfig;
 use http::StatusCode;
 use tokio::net::TcpListener;
 use tower::ServiceBuilder;
-use tower_http::{
-    auth::AsyncRequireAuthorizationLayer, request_id::PropagateRequestIdLayer, trace::TraceLayer,
-};
-use tracing::{Span, error, info};
+use tower_http::request_id::PropagateRequestIdLayer;
+use tower_http::trace::TraceLayer;
+use tracing::{Span, debug, error, info};
+use uuid::Uuid;

-use super::middleware::request_id::maybe_add_request_id_header;
-use super::{
-    headers::X_REQUEST_ID,
-    middleware::authorize::Authorize,
-    routes::{
-        check_writability, configure, database_schema, dbs_and_roles, extension_server, extensions,
-        grants, insights, metrics, metrics_json, status, terminate,
-    },
+use super::routes::{
+    check_writability, configure, database_schema, dbs_and_roles, extension_server, extensions,
+    grants, insights, metrics, metrics_json, status, terminate,
 };
 use crate::compute::ComputeNode;

+const X_REQUEST_ID: &str = "x-request-id";
+
 /// `compute_ctl` has two servers: internal and external. The internal server
 /// binds to the loopback interface and handles communication from clients on
 /// the compute. The external server is what receives communication from the
 /// control plane, the metrics scraper, etc. We make the distinction because
 /// certain routes in `compute_ctl` only need to be exposed to local processes
 /// like Postgres via the neon extension and local_proxy.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
 pub enum Server {
-    Internal {
-        port: u16,
-    },
-    External {
-        port: u16,
-        config: ComputeCtlConfig,
-        compute_id: String,
-    },
+    Internal(u16),
+    External(u16),
 }

 impl Display for Server {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        match self {
-            Server::Internal { .. } => f.write_str("internal"),
-            Server::External { .. } => f.write_str("external"),
+            Server::Internal(_) => f.write_str("internal"),
+            Server::External(_) => f.write_str("external"),
        }
    }
 }

-impl From<&Server> for Router<Arc<ComputeNode>> {
-    fn from(server: &Server) -> Self {
+impl From<Server> for Router<Arc<ComputeNode>> {
+    fn from(server: Server) -> Self {
        let mut router = Router::<Arc<ComputeNode>>::new();

        router = match server {
-            Server::Internal { .. } => {
+            Server::Internal(_) => {
                router = router
                    .route(
                        "/extension_server/{*filename}",
@@ -78,72 +69,59 @@ impl From<&Server> for Router<Arc<ComputeNode>> {

                router
            }
-            Server::External {
-                config, compute_id, ..
-            } => {
-                let unauthenticated_router =
-                    Router::<Arc<ComputeNode>>::new().route("/metrics", get(metrics::get_metrics));
-
-                let authenticated_router = Router::<Arc<ComputeNode>>::new()
-                    .route("/check_writability", post(check_writability::is_writable))
-                    .route("/configure", post(configure::configure))
-                    .route("/configure_telemetry", post(configure::configure_telemetry))
-                    .route("/database_schema", get(database_schema::get_schema_dump))
-                    .route("/dbs_and_roles", get(dbs_and_roles::get_catalog_objects))
-                    .route("/insights", get(insights::get_insights))
-                    .route("/metrics.json", get(metrics_json::get_metrics))
-                    .route("/status", get(status::get_status))
-                    .route("/terminate", post(terminate::terminate))
-                    .layer(AsyncRequireAuthorizationLayer::new(Authorize::new(
-                        compute_id.clone(),
-                        config.jwks.clone(),
-                    )));
-
-                router
-                    .merge(unauthenticated_router)
-                    .merge(authenticated_router)
-            }
+            Server::External(_) => router
+                .route("/check_writability", post(check_writability::is_writable))
+                .route("/configure", post(configure::configure))
+                .route("/database_schema", get(database_schema::get_schema_dump))
+                .route("/dbs_and_roles", get(dbs_and_roles::get_catalog_objects))
+                .route("/insights", get(insights::get_insights))
+                .route("/metrics", get(metrics::get_metrics))
+                .route("/metrics.json", get(metrics_json::get_metrics))
+                .route("/status", get(status::get_status))
+                .route("/terminate", post(terminate::terminate)),
        };

-        router
-            .fallback(Server::handle_404)
-            .method_not_allowed_fallback(Server::handle_405)
-            .layer(
-                ServiceBuilder::new()
-                    .layer(tower_otel::trace::HttpLayer::server(tracing::Level::INFO))
-                    // Add this middleware since we assume the request ID exists
-                    .layer(middleware::from_fn(maybe_add_request_id_header))
-                    .layer(
-                        TraceLayer::new_for_http()
-                            .on_request(|request: &http::Request<_>, _span: &Span| {
-                                let request_id = request
+        router.fallback(Server::handle_404).method_not_allowed_fallback(Server::handle_405).layer(
+            ServiceBuilder::new()
+                // Add this middleware since we assume the request ID exists
+                .layer(middleware::from_fn(maybe_add_request_id_header))
+                .layer(
+                    TraceLayer::new_for_http()
+                        .on_request(|request: &http::Request<_>, _span: &Span| {
+                            let request_id = request
+                                .headers()
+                                .get(X_REQUEST_ID)
+                                .unwrap()
+                                .to_str()
+                                .unwrap();
+
+                            match request.uri().path() {
+                                "/metrics" => {
+                                    debug!(%request_id, "{} {}", request.method(), request.uri())
+                                }
+                                _ => info!(%request_id, "{} {}", request.method(), request.uri()),
+                            };
+                        })
+                        .on_response(
+                            |response: &http::Response<_>, latency: Duration, _span: &Span| {
+                                let request_id = response
                                    .headers()
                                    .get(X_REQUEST_ID)
                                    .unwrap()
                                    .to_str()
                                    .unwrap();

-                                info!(%request_id, "{} {}", request.method(), request.uri());
-                            })
-                            .on_response(
-                                |response: &http::Response<_>, latency: Duration, _span: &Span| {
-                                    let request_id = response
-                                        .headers()
-                                        .get(X_REQUEST_ID)
-                                        .unwrap()
-                                        .to_str()
-                                        .unwrap();
-
-                                    info!(
-                                        %request_id,
-                                        code = response.status().as_u16(),
-                                        latency = latency.as_millis()
-                                    );
-                                },
-                            ),
-                    )
-                    .layer(PropagateRequestIdLayer::x_request_id()),
-            )
+                                info!(
+                                    %request_id,
+                                    code = response.status().as_u16(),
+                                    latency = latency.as_millis()
+                                )
+                            },
+                        ),
+                )
+                .layer(PropagateRequestIdLayer::x_request_id()),
+        )
+            .layer(tower_otel::trace::HttpLayer::server(tracing::Level::INFO))
    }
 }

@@ -167,15 +145,15 @@ impl Server {
        match self {
            // TODO: Change this to Ipv6Addr::LOCALHOST when the GitHub runners
            // allow binding to localhost
-            Server::Internal { .. } => IpAddr::from(Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
-            Server::External { .. } => IpAddr::from(Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
+            Server::Internal(_) => IpAddr::from(Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
+            Server::External(_) => IpAddr::from(Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
        }
    }

-    fn port(&self) -> u16 {
+    fn port(self) -> u16 {
        match self {
-            Server::Internal { port, .. } => *port,
-            Server::External { port, .. } => *port,
+            Server::Internal(port) => port,
+            Server::External(port) => port,
        }
    }

@@ -202,9 +180,7 @@ impl Server {
            );
        }

-        let router = Router::from(&self)
-            .with_state(compute)
-            .into_make_service_with_connect_info::<SocketAddr>();
+        let router = Router::from(self).with_state(compute);

        if let Err(e) = axum::serve(listener, router).await {
            error!("compute_ctl {} HTTP server error: {}", self, e);
@@ -219,3 +195,15 @@ impl Server {
        tokio::spawn(self.serve(state));
    }
 }
+
+/// This middleware function allows compute_ctl to generate its own request ID
+/// if one isn't supplied. The control plane will always send one as a UUID. The
+/// neon Postgres extension on the other hand does not send one.
+async fn maybe_add_request_id_header(mut request: Request, next: Next) -> Response {
+    let headers = request.headers_mut();
+    if headers.get(X_REQUEST_ID).is_none() {
+        headers.append(X_REQUEST_ID, Uuid::new_v4().to_string().parse().unwrap());
+    }
+
+    next.run(request).await
+}
--- a/compute_tools/src/installed_extensions.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/installed_extensions.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;

 use anyhow::Result;
 use compute_api::responses::{InstalledExtension, InstalledExtensions};
-use tokio_postgres::{Client, Config, NoTls};
+use postgres::{Client, NoTls};

 use crate::metrics::INSTALLED_EXTENSIONS;

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use crate::metrics::INSTALLED_EXTENSIONS;
 /// and to make database listing query here more explicit.
 ///
 /// Limit the number of databases to 500 to avoid excessive load.
-async fn list_dbs(client: &mut Client) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
+fn list_dbs(client: &mut Client) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
    // `pg_database.datconnlimit = -2` means that the database is in the
    // invalid state
    let databases = client
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ async fn list_dbs(client: &mut Client) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
                AND datconnlimit <> - 2
                LIMIT 500",
            &[],
-        )
-        .await?
+        )?
        .iter()
        .map(|row| {
            let db: String = row.get("datname");
@@ -37,36 +36,20 @@ async fn list_dbs(client: &mut Client) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
 /// Same extension can be installed in multiple databases with different versions,
 /// so we report a separate metric (number of databases where it is installed)
 /// for each extension version.
-pub async fn get_installed_extensions(mut conf: Config) -> Result<InstalledExtensions> {
+pub fn get_installed_extensions(mut conf: postgres::config::Config) -> Result<InstalledExtensions> {
    conf.application_name("compute_ctl:get_installed_extensions");
-    let databases: Vec<String> = {
-        let (mut client, connection) = conf.connect(NoTls).await?;
-        tokio::spawn(async move {
-            if let Err(e) = connection.await {
-                eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
-            }
-        });
-
-        list_dbs(&mut client).await?
-    };
+    let mut client = conf.connect(NoTls)?;
+    let databases: Vec<String> = list_dbs(&mut client)?;

    let mut extensions_map: HashMap<(String, String, String), InstalledExtension> = HashMap::new();
    for db in databases.iter() {
        conf.dbname(db);
-
-        let (client, connection) = conf.connect(NoTls).await?;
-        tokio::spawn(async move {
-            if let Err(e) = connection.await {
-                eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
-            }
-        });
-
-        let extensions: Vec<(String, String, i32)> = client
+        let mut db_client = conf.connect(NoTls)?;
+        let extensions: Vec<(String, String, i32)> = db_client
            .query(
                "SELECT extname, extversion, extowner::integer FROM pg_catalog.pg_extension",
                &[],
-            )
-            .await?
+            )?
            .iter()
            .map(|row| {
                (
--- a/compute_tools/src/lib.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/lib.rs
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ mod migration;
 pub mod monitor;
 pub mod params;
 pub mod pg_helpers;
-pub mod rsyslog;
 pub mod spec;
 mod spec_apply;
 pub mod swap;
 pub mod sync_sk;
-pub mod tls;
--- a/compute_tools/src/logger.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/logger.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-use std::collections::HashMap;
-use tracing::info;
 use tracing_subscriber::layer::SubscriberExt;
 use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;

@@ -24,8 +22,7 @@ pub async fn init_tracing_and_logging(default_log_level: &str) -> anyhow::Result
        .with_writer(std::io::stderr);

    // Initialize OpenTelemetry
-    let otlp_layer =
-        tracing_utils::init_tracing("compute_ctl", tracing_utils::ExportConfig::default()).await;
+    let otlp_layer = tracing_utils::init_tracing("compute_ctl").await;

    // Put it all together
    tracing_subscriber::registry()
@@ -45,50 +42,3 @@ pub async fn init_tracing_and_logging(default_log_level: &str) -> anyhow::Result
 pub fn inlinify(s: &str) -> String {
    s.replace('\n', "\u{200B}")
 }
-
-pub fn startup_context_from_env() -> Option<opentelemetry::Context> {
-    // Extract OpenTelemetry context for the startup actions from the
-    // TRACEPARENT and TRACESTATE env variables, and attach it to the current
-    // tracing context.
-    //
-    // This is used to propagate the context for the 'start_compute' operation
-    // from the neon control plane. This allows linking together the wider
-    // 'start_compute' operation that creates the compute container, with the
-    // startup actions here within the container.
-    //
-    // There is no standard for passing context in env variables, but a lot of
-    // tools use TRACEPARENT/TRACESTATE, so we use that convention too. See
-    // https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/issues/740
-    //
-    // Switch to the startup context here, and exit it once the startup has
-    // completed and Postgres is up and running.
-    //
-    // If this pod is pre-created without binding it to any particular endpoint
-    // yet, this isn't the right place to enter the startup context. In that
-    // case, the control plane should pass the tracing context as part of the
-    // /configure API call.
-    //
-    // NOTE: This is supposed to only cover the *startup* actions. Once
-    // postgres is configured and up-and-running, we exit this span. Any other
-    // actions that are performed on incoming HTTP requests, for example, are
-    // performed in separate spans.
-    //
-    // XXX: If the pod is restarted, we perform the startup actions in the same
-    // context as the original startup actions, which probably doesn't make
-    // sense.
-    let mut startup_tracing_carrier: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();
-    if let Ok(val) = std::env::var("TRACEPARENT") {
-        startup_tracing_carrier.insert("traceparent".to_string(), val);
-    }
-    if let Ok(val) = std::env::var("TRACESTATE") {
-        startup_tracing_carrier.insert("tracestate".to_string(), val);
-    }
-    if !startup_tracing_carrier.is_empty() {
-        use opentelemetry::propagation::TextMapPropagator;
-        use opentelemetry_sdk::propagation::TraceContextPropagator;
-        info!("got startup tracing context from env variables");
-        Some(TraceContextPropagator::new().extract(&startup_tracing_carrier))
-    } else {
-        None
-    }
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/metrics.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-use metrics::core::{AtomicF64, Collector, GenericGauge};
+use metrics::core::Collector;
 use metrics::proto::MetricFamily;
-use metrics::{
-    IntCounterVec, IntGaugeVec, UIntGaugeVec, register_gauge, register_int_counter_vec,
-    register_int_gauge_vec, register_uint_gauge_vec,
-};
+use metrics::{IntCounterVec, UIntGaugeVec, register_int_counter_vec, register_uint_gauge_vec};
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;

 pub(crate) static INSTALLED_EXTENSIONS: Lazy<UIntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
@@ -57,36 +54,17 @@ pub(crate) static REMOTE_EXT_REQUESTS_TOTAL: Lazy<IntCounterVec> = Lazy::new(||
    register_int_counter_vec!(
        "compute_ctl_remote_ext_requests_total",
        "Total number of requests made by compute_ctl to download extensions from S3 proxy by status",
-        &["http_status", "filename"]
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
-// Size of audit log directory in bytes
-pub(crate) static AUDIT_LOG_DIR_SIZE: Lazy<GenericGauge<AtomicF64>> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_gauge!(
-        "compute_audit_log_dir_size",
-        "Size of audit log directory in bytes",
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
-// Report that `compute_ctl` is up and what's the current compute status.
-pub(crate) static COMPUTE_CTL_UP: Lazy<IntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_int_gauge_vec!(
-        "compute_ctl_up",
-        "Whether compute_ctl is running",
-        &["build_tag", "status"]
+        // Do not use any labels like extension name yet.
+        // We can add them later if needed.
+        &["http_status"]
    )
    .expect("failed to define a metric")
 });

 pub fn collect() -> Vec<MetricFamily> {
-    let mut metrics = COMPUTE_CTL_UP.collect();
-    metrics.extend(INSTALLED_EXTENSIONS.collect());
+    let mut metrics = INSTALLED_EXTENSIONS.collect();
    metrics.extend(CPLANE_REQUESTS_TOTAL.collect());
    metrics.extend(REMOTE_EXT_REQUESTS_TOTAL.collect());
    metrics.extend(DB_MIGRATION_FAILED.collect());
-    metrics.extend(AUDIT_LOG_DIR_SIZE.collect());
    metrics
 }
--- a/compute_tools/src/monitor.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/monitor.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const MONITOR_CHECK_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(500);
 // should be handled gracefully.
 fn watch_compute_activity(compute: &ComputeNode) {
    // Suppose that `connstr` doesn't change
-    let connstr = compute.params.connstr.clone();
+    let connstr = compute.connstr.clone();
    let conf = compute.get_conn_conf(Some("compute_ctl:activity_monitor"));

    // During startup and configuration we connect to every Postgres database,
--- a/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/pg_helpers.rs
@@ -10,10 +10,8 @@ use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};

 use anyhow::{Result, bail};
-use compute_api::responses::TlsConfig;
 use compute_api::spec::{Database, GenericOption, GenericOptions, PgIdent, Role};
 use futures::StreamExt;
-use indexmap::IndexMap;
 use ini::Ini;
 use notify::{RecursiveMode, Watcher};
 use postgres::config::Config;
@@ -188,40 +186,15 @@ impl DatabaseExt for Database {
 /// Postgres SQL queries and DATABASE_URL.
 pub trait Escaping {
    fn pg_quote(&self) -> String;
-    fn pg_quote_dollar(&self) -> (String, String);
 }

 impl Escaping for PgIdent {
    /// This is intended to mimic Postgres quote_ident(), but for simplicity it
    /// always quotes provided string with `""` and escapes every `"`.
    /// **Not idempotent**, i.e. if string is already escaped it will be escaped again.
-    /// N.B. it's not useful for escaping identifiers that are used inside WHERE
-    /// clause, use `escape_literal()` instead.
    fn pg_quote(&self) -> String {
-        format!("\"{}\"", self.replace('"', "\"\""))
-    }
-
-    /// This helper is intended to be used for dollar-escaping strings for usage
-    /// inside PL/pgSQL procedures. In addition to dollar-escaping the string,
-    /// it also returns a tag that is intended to be used inside the outer
-    /// PL/pgSQL procedure. If you do not need an outer tag, just discard it.
-    /// Here we somewhat mimic the logic of Postgres' `pg_get_functiondef()`,
-    /// <https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/8b49392b270b4ac0b9f5c210e2a503546841e832/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c#L2924>
-    fn pg_quote_dollar(&self) -> (String, String) {
-        let mut tag: String = "x".to_string();
-        let mut outer_tag = "xx".to_string();
-
-        // Find the first suitable tag that is not present in the string.
-        // Postgres' max role/DB name length is 63 bytes, so even in the
-        // worst case it won't take long.
-        while self.contains(&format!("${tag}$")) || self.contains(&format!("${outer_tag}$")) {
-            tag += "x";
-            outer_tag = tag.clone() + "x";
-        }
-
-        let escaped = format!("${tag}${self}${tag}$");
-
-        (escaped, outer_tag)
+        let result = format!("\"{}\"", self.replace('"', "\"\""));
+        result
    }
 }

@@ -253,13 +226,10 @@ pub async fn get_existing_dbs_async(
    // invalid state. See:
    //   https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/a4b4cc1d60f7e8ccfcc8ff8cb80c28ee411ad9a9
    let rowstream = client
-        // We use a subquery instead of a fancy `datdba::regrole::text AS owner`,
-        // because the latter automatically wraps the result in double quotes,
-        // if the role name contains special characters.
        .query_raw::<str, &String, &[String; 0]>(
            "SELECT
                datname AS name,
-                (SELECT rolname FROM pg_roles WHERE oid = datdba) AS owner,
+                datdba::regrole::text AS owner,
                NOT datallowconn AS restrict_conn,
                datconnlimit = - 2 AS invalid
            FROM
@@ -408,7 +378,7 @@ pub fn create_pgdata(pgdata: &str) -> Result<()> {

 /// Update pgbouncer.ini with provided options
 fn update_pgbouncer_ini(
-    pgbouncer_config: IndexMap<String, String>,
+    pgbouncer_config: HashMap<String, String>,
    pgbouncer_ini_path: &str,
 ) -> Result<()> {
    let mut conf = Ini::load_from_file(pgbouncer_ini_path)?;
@@ -429,10 +399,7 @@ fn update_pgbouncer_ini(
 /// Tune pgbouncer.
 /// 1. Apply new config using pgbouncer admin console
 /// 2. Add new values to pgbouncer.ini to preserve them after restart
-pub async fn tune_pgbouncer(
-    mut pgbouncer_config: IndexMap<String, String>,
-    tls_config: Option<TlsConfig>,
-) -> Result<()> {
+pub async fn tune_pgbouncer(pgbouncer_config: HashMap<String, String>) -> Result<()> {
    let pgbouncer_connstr = if std::env::var_os("AUTOSCALING").is_some() {
        // for VMs use pgbouncer specific way to connect to
        // pgbouncer admin console without password
@@ -478,21 +445,19 @@ pub async fn tune_pgbouncer(
        }
    };

-    if let Some(tls_config) = tls_config {
-        // pgbouncer starts in a half-ok state if it cannot find these files.
-        // It will default to client_tls_sslmode=deny, which causes proxy to error.
-        // There is a small window at startup where these files don't yet exist in the VM.
-        // Best to wait until it exists.
-        loop {
-            if let Ok(true) = tokio::fs::try_exists(&tls_config.key_path).await {
-                break;
-            }
-            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500)).await
-        }
+    // Apply new config
+    for (option_name, value) in pgbouncer_config.iter() {
+        let query = format!("SET {}={}", option_name, value);
+        // keep this log line for debugging purposes
+        info!("Applying pgbouncer setting change: {}", query);

-        pgbouncer_config.insert("client_tls_cert_file".to_string(), tls_config.cert_path);
-        pgbouncer_config.insert("client_tls_key_file".to_string(), tls_config.key_path);
-        pgbouncer_config.insert("client_tls_sslmode".to_string(), "allow".to_string());
+        if let Err(err) = client.simple_query(&query).await {
+            // Don't fail on error, just print it into log
+            error!(
+                "Failed to apply pgbouncer setting change: {},  {}",
+                query, err
+            );
+        };
    }

    // save values to pgbouncer.ini
@@ -508,13 +473,6 @@ pub async fn tune_pgbouncer(
    };
    update_pgbouncer_ini(pgbouncer_config, &pgbouncer_ini_path)?;

-    info!("Applying pgbouncer setting change");
-
-    if let Err(err) = client.simple_query("RELOAD").await {
-        // Don't fail on error, just print it into log
-        error!("Failed to apply pgbouncer setting change,  {err}",);
-    };
-
    Ok(())
 }

--- a/compute_tools/src/rsyslog.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/rsyslog.rs
@@ -1,276 +0,0 @@
-use std::fs;
-use std::io::ErrorKind;
-use std::path::Path;
-use std::process::Command;
-use std::time::Duration;
-use std::{fs::OpenOptions, io::Write};
-
-use anyhow::{Context, Result, anyhow};
-use tracing::{error, info, instrument, warn};
-
-const POSTGRES_LOGS_CONF_PATH: &str = "/etc/rsyslog.d/postgres_logs.conf";
-
-fn get_rsyslog_pid() -> Option<String> {
-    let output = Command::new("pgrep")
-        .arg("rsyslogd")
-        .output()
-        .expect("Failed to execute pgrep");
-
-    if !output.stdout.is_empty() {
-        let pid = std::str::from_utf8(&output.stdout)
-            .expect("Invalid UTF-8 in process output")
-            .trim()
-            .to_string();
-        Some(pid)
-    } else {
-        None
-    }
-}
-
-// Restart rsyslogd to apply the new configuration.
-// This is necessary, because there is no other way to reload the rsyslog configuration.
-//
-// Rsyslogd shouldn't lose any messages, because of the restart,
-// because it tracks the last read position in the log files
-// and will continue reading from that position.
-// TODO: test it properly
-//
-fn restart_rsyslog() -> Result<()> {
-    let old_pid = get_rsyslog_pid().context("rsyslogd is not running")?;
-    info!("rsyslogd is running with pid: {}, restart it", old_pid);
-
-    // kill it to restart
-    let _ = Command::new("pkill")
-        .arg("rsyslogd")
-        .output()
-        .context("Failed to stop rsyslogd")?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-pub fn configure_audit_rsyslog(
-    log_directory: String,
-    tag: &str,
-    remote_endpoint: &str,
-) -> Result<()> {
-    let config_content: String = format!(
-        include_str!("config_template/compute_audit_rsyslog_template.conf"),
-        log_directory = log_directory,
-        tag = tag,
-        remote_endpoint = remote_endpoint
-    );
-
-    info!("rsyslog config_content: {}", config_content);
-
-    let rsyslog_conf_path = "/etc/rsyslog.d/compute_audit_rsyslog.conf";
-    let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
-        .create(true)
-        .write(true)
-        .truncate(true)
-        .open(rsyslog_conf_path)?;
-
-    file.write_all(config_content.as_bytes())?;
-
-    info!(
-        "rsyslog configuration file {} added successfully. Starting rsyslogd",
-        rsyslog_conf_path
-    );
-
-    // start the service, using the configuration
-    restart_rsyslog()?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-/// Configuration for enabling Postgres logs forwarding from rsyslogd
-pub struct PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig<'a> {
-    pub host: Option<&'a str>,
-}
-
-impl<'a> PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig<'a> {
-    pub fn new(host: Option<&'a str>) -> Self {
-        Self { host }
-    }
-
-    pub fn build(&self) -> Result<String> {
-        match self.host {
-            Some(host) => {
-                if let Some((target, port)) = host.split_once(":") {
-                    Ok(format!(
-                        include_str!(
-                            "config_template/compute_rsyslog_postgres_export_template.conf"
-                        ),
-                        logs_export_target = target,
-                        logs_export_port = port,
-                    ))
-                } else {
-                    Err(anyhow!("Invalid host format for Postgres logs export"))
-                }
-            }
-            None => Ok("".to_string()),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn current_config() -> Result<String> {
-        let config_content = match std::fs::read_to_string(POSTGRES_LOGS_CONF_PATH) {
-            Ok(c) => c,
-            Err(err) if err.kind() == ErrorKind::NotFound => String::new(),
-            Err(err) => return Err(err.into()),
-        };
-        Ok(config_content)
-    }
-
-    /// Returns the default host for otel collector that receives Postgres logs
-    pub fn default_host(project_id: &str) -> String {
-        format!(
-            "config-{}-collector.neon-telemetry.svc.cluster.local:10514",
-            project_id
-        )
-    }
-}
-
-pub fn configure_postgres_logs_export(conf: PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig) -> Result<()> {
-    let new_config = conf.build()?;
-    let current_config = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::current_config()?;
-
-    if new_config == current_config {
-        info!("postgres logs rsyslog configuration is up-to-date");
-        return Ok(());
-    }
-
-    // When new config is empty we can simply remove the configuration file.
-    if new_config.is_empty() {
-        info!("removing rsyslog config file: {}", POSTGRES_LOGS_CONF_PATH);
-        match std::fs::remove_file(POSTGRES_LOGS_CONF_PATH) {
-            Ok(_) => {}
-            Err(err) if err.kind() == ErrorKind::NotFound => {}
-            Err(err) => return Err(err.into()),
-        }
-        restart_rsyslog()?;
-        return Ok(());
-    }
-
-    info!(
-        "configuring rsyslog for postgres logs export to: {:?}",
-        conf.host
-    );
-
-    let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
-        .create(true)
-        .write(true)
-        .truncate(true)
-        .open(POSTGRES_LOGS_CONF_PATH)?;
-    file.write_all(new_config.as_bytes())?;
-
-    info!(
-        "rsyslog configuration file {} added successfully. Starting rsyslogd",
-        POSTGRES_LOGS_CONF_PATH
-    );
-
-    restart_rsyslog()?;
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-#[instrument(skip_all)]
-async fn pgaudit_gc_main_loop(log_directory: String) -> Result<()> {
-    info!("running pgaudit GC main loop");
-    loop {
-        // Check log_directory for old pgaudit logs and delete them.
-        // New log files are checked every 5 minutes, as set in pgaudit.log_rotation_age
-        // Find files that were not modified in the last 15 minutes and delete them.
-        // This should be enough time for rsyslog to process the logs and for us to catch the alerts.
-        //
-        // In case of a very high load, we might need to adjust this value and pgaudit.log_rotation_age.
-        //
-        // TODO: add some smarter logic to delete the files that are fully streamed according to rsyslog
-        // imfile-state files, but for now just do a simple GC to avoid filling up the disk.
-        let _ = Command::new("find")
-            .arg(&log_directory)
-            .arg("-name")
-            .arg("audit*.log")
-            .arg("-mmin")
-            .arg("+15")
-            .arg("-delete")
-            .output()?;
-
-        // also collect the metric for the size of the log directory
-        async fn get_log_files_size(path: &Path) -> Result<u64> {
-            let mut total_size = 0;
-
-            for entry in fs::read_dir(path)? {
-                let entry = entry?;
-                let entry_path = entry.path();
-
-                if entry_path.is_file() && entry_path.to_string_lossy().ends_with("log") {
-                    total_size += entry.metadata()?.len();
-                }
-            }
-
-            Ok(total_size)
-        }
-
-        let log_directory_size = get_log_files_size(Path::new(&log_directory))
-            .await
-            .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
-                warn!("Failed to get log directory size: {}", e);
-                0
-            });
-        crate::metrics::AUDIT_LOG_DIR_SIZE.set(log_directory_size as f64);
-        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(60)).await;
-    }
-}
-
-// launch pgaudit GC thread to clean up the old pgaudit logs stored in the log_directory
-pub fn launch_pgaudit_gc(log_directory: String) {
-    tokio::spawn(async move {
-        if let Err(e) = pgaudit_gc_main_loop(log_directory).await {
-            error!("pgaudit GC main loop failed: {}", e);
-        }
-    });
-}
-
-#[cfg(test)]
-mod tests {
-    use crate::rsyslog::PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig;
-
-    #[test]
-    fn test_postgres_logs_config() {
-        {
-            // Verify empty config
-            let conf = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::new(None);
-            let res = conf.build();
-            assert!(res.is_ok());
-            let conf_str = res.unwrap();
-            assert_eq!(&conf_str, "");
-        }
-
-        {
-            // Verify config
-            let conf = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::new(Some("collector.cvc.local:514"));
-            let res = conf.build();
-            assert!(res.is_ok());
-            let conf_str = res.unwrap();
-            assert!(conf_str.contains("omfwd"));
-            assert!(conf_str.contains(r#"target="collector.cvc.local""#));
-            assert!(conf_str.contains(r#"port="514""#));
-        }
-
-        {
-            // Verify invalid config
-            let conf = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::new(Some("invalid"));
-            let res = conf.build();
-            assert!(res.is_err());
-        }
-
-        {
-            // Verify config with default host
-            let host = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::default_host("shy-breeze-123");
-            let conf = PostgresLogsRsyslogConfig::new(Some(&host));
-            let res = conf.build();
-            assert!(res.is_ok());
-            let conf_str = res.unwrap();
-            assert!(conf_str.contains(r#"shy-breeze-123"#));
-            assert!(conf_str.contains(r#"port="10514""#));
-        }
-    }
-}
--- a/compute_tools/src/spec.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/spec.rs
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ use compute_api::responses::{
 use compute_api::spec::ComputeSpec;
 use reqwest::StatusCode;
 use tokio_postgres::Client;
-use tracing::{error, info, instrument};
+use tracing::{error, info, instrument, warn};

 use crate::config;
 use crate::metrics::{CPLANE_REQUESTS_TOTAL, CPlaneRequestRPC, UNKNOWN_HTTP_STATUS};
 use crate::migration::MigrationRunner;
 use crate::params::PG_HBA_ALL_MD5;
+use crate::pg_helpers::*;

 // Do control plane request and return response if any. In case of error it
 // returns a bool flag indicating whether it makes sense to retry the request
@@ -211,3 +212,122 @@ pub async fn handle_migrations(client: &mut Client) -> Result<()> {

    Ok(())
 }
+
+/// Connect to the database as superuser and pre-create anon extension
+/// if it is present in shared_preload_libraries
+#[instrument(skip_all)]
+pub async fn handle_extension_anon(
+    spec: &ComputeSpec,
+    db_owner: &str,
+    db_client: &mut Client,
+    grants_only: bool,
+) -> Result<()> {
+    info!("handle extension anon");
+
+    if let Some(libs) = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries") {
+        if libs.contains("anon") {
+            if !grants_only {
+                // check if extension is already initialized using anon.is_initialized()
+                let query = "SELECT anon.is_initialized()";
+                match db_client.query(query, &[]).await {
+                    Ok(rows) => {
+                        if !rows.is_empty() {
+                            let is_initialized: bool = rows[0].get(0);
+                            if is_initialized {
+                                info!("anon extension is already initialized");
+                                return Ok(());
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        warn!(
+                            "anon extension is_installed check failed with expected error: {}",
+                            e
+                        );
+                    }
+                };
+
+                // Create anon extension if this compute needs it
+                // Users cannot create it themselves, because superuser is required.
+                let mut query = "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS anon CASCADE";
+                info!("creating anon extension with query: {}", query);
+                match db_client.query(query, &[]).await {
+                    Ok(_) => {}
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        error!("anon extension creation failed with error: {}", e);
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // check that extension is installed
+                query = "SELECT extname FROM pg_extension WHERE extname = 'anon'";
+                let rows = db_client.query(query, &[]).await?;
+                if rows.is_empty() {
+                    error!("anon extension is not installed");
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+
+                // Initialize anon extension
+                // This also requires superuser privileges, so users cannot do it themselves.
+                query = "SELECT anon.init()";
+                match db_client.query(query, &[]).await {
+                    Ok(_) => {}
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        error!("anon.init() failed with error: {}", e);
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // check that extension is installed, if not bail early
+            let query = "SELECT extname FROM pg_extension WHERE extname = 'anon'";
+            match db_client.query(query, &[]).await {
+                Ok(rows) => {
+                    if rows.is_empty() {
+                        error!("anon extension is not installed");
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    error!("anon extension check failed with error: {}", e);
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+            };
+
+            let query = format!("GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA anon TO {}", db_owner);
+            info!("granting anon extension permissions with query: {}", query);
+            db_client.simple_query(&query).await?;
+
+            // Grant permissions to db_owner to use anon extension functions
+            let query = format!("GRANT ALL ON ALL FUNCTIONS IN SCHEMA anon TO {}", db_owner);
+            info!("granting anon extension permissions with query: {}", query);
+            db_client.simple_query(&query).await?;
+
+            // This is needed, because some functions are defined as SECURITY DEFINER.
+            // In Postgres SECURITY DEFINER functions are executed with the privileges
+            // of the owner.
+            // In anon extension this it is needed to access some GUCs, which are only accessible to
+            // superuser. But we've patched postgres to allow db_owner to access them as well.
+            // So we need to change owner of these functions to db_owner.
+            let query = format!("
+                SELECT 'ALTER FUNCTION '||nsp.nspname||'.'||p.proname||'('||pg_get_function_identity_arguments(p.oid)||') OWNER TO {};'
+                from pg_proc p
+                join pg_namespace nsp ON p.pronamespace = nsp.oid
+                where nsp.nspname = 'anon';", db_owner);
+
+            info!("change anon extension functions owner to db owner");
+            db_client.simple_query(&query).await?;
+
+            //  affects views as well
+            let query = format!("GRANT ALL ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA anon TO {}", db_owner);
+            info!("granting anon extension permissions with query: {}", query);
+            db_client.simple_query(&query).await?;
+
+            let query = format!("GRANT ALL ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA anon TO {}", db_owner);
+            info!("granting anon extension permissions with query: {}", query);
+            db_client.simple_query(&query).await?;
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
--- a/compute_tools/src/spec_apply.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/spec_apply.rs
@@ -4,426 +4,15 @@ use std::future::Future;
 use std::iter::{empty, once};
 use std::sync::Arc;

-use anyhow::{Context, Result};
-use compute_api::responses::ComputeStatus;
-use compute_api::spec::{ComputeAudit, ComputeSpec, Database, PgIdent, Role};
+use anyhow::Result;
+use compute_api::spec::{ComputeFeature, ComputeSpec, Database, PgIdent, Role};
 use futures::future::join_all;
 use tokio::sync::RwLock;
 use tokio_postgres::Client;
-use tokio_postgres::error::SqlState;
-use tracing::{Instrument, debug, error, info, info_span, instrument, warn};
+use tracing::{Instrument, debug, info_span, warn};

-use crate::compute::{ComputeNode, ComputeState};
-use crate::pg_helpers::{
-    DatabaseExt, Escaping, GenericOptionsSearch, RoleExt, get_existing_dbs_async,
-    get_existing_roles_async,
-};
-use crate::spec_apply::ApplySpecPhase::{
-    CreateAndAlterDatabases, CreateAndAlterRoles, CreateAvailabilityCheck, CreateNeonSuperuser,
-    CreatePgauditExtension, CreatePgauditlogtofileExtension, CreateSchemaNeon,
-    DisablePostgresDBPgAudit, DropInvalidDatabases, DropRoles, FinalizeDropLogicalSubscriptions,
-    HandleNeonExtension, HandleOtherExtensions, RenameAndDeleteDatabases, RenameRoles,
-    RunInEachDatabase,
-};
-use crate::spec_apply::PerDatabasePhase::{
-    ChangeSchemaPerms, DeleteDBRoleReferences, DropLogicalSubscriptions,
-};
-
-impl ComputeNode {
-    /// Apply the spec to the running PostgreSQL instance.
-    /// The caller can decide to run with multiple clients in parallel, or
-    /// single mode.  Either way, the commands executed will be the same, and
-    /// only commands run in different databases are parallelized.
-    #[instrument(skip_all)]
-    pub fn apply_spec_sql(
-        &self,
-        spec: Arc<ComputeSpec>,
-        conf: Arc<tokio_postgres::Config>,
-        concurrency: usize,
-    ) -> Result<()> {
-        info!("Applying config with max {} concurrency", concurrency);
-        debug!("Config: {:?}", spec);
-
-        let rt = tokio::runtime::Handle::current();
-        rt.block_on(async {
-            // Proceed with post-startup configuration. Note, that order of operations is important.
-            let client = Self::get_maintenance_client(&conf).await?;
-            let spec = spec.clone();
-
-            let databases = get_existing_dbs_async(&client).await?;
-            let roles = get_existing_roles_async(&client)
-                .await?
-                .into_iter()
-                .map(|role| (role.name.clone(), role))
-                .collect::<HashMap<String, Role>>();
-
-            // Check if we need to drop subscriptions before starting the endpoint.
-            //
-            // It is important to do this operation exactly once when endpoint starts on a new branch.
-            // Otherwise, we may drop not inherited, but newly created subscriptions.
-            //
-            // We cannot rely only on spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start flag,
-            // because if for some reason compute restarts inside VM,
-            // it will start again with the same spec and flag value.
-            //
-            // To handle this, we save the fact of the operation in the database
-            // in the neon.drop_subscriptions_done table.
-            // If the table does not exist, we assume that the operation was never performed, so we must do it.
-            // If table exists, we check if the operation was performed on the current timelilne.
-            //
-            let mut drop_subscriptions_done = false;
-
-            if spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start {
-                let timeline_id = self.get_timeline_id().context("timeline_id must be set")?;
-
-                info!("Checking if drop subscription operation was already performed for timeline_id: {}", timeline_id);
-
-                drop_subscriptions_done = match
-                    client.query("select 1 from neon.drop_subscriptions_done where timeline_id = $1", &[&timeline_id.to_string()]).await {
-                    Ok(result) => !result.is_empty(),
-                    Err(e) =>
-                    {
-                        match e.code() {
-                            Some(&SqlState::UNDEFINED_TABLE) => false,
-                            _ => {
-                                // We don't expect any other error here, except for the schema/table not existing
-                                error!("Error checking if drop subscription operation was already performed: {}", e);
-                                return Err(e.into());
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-                }
-            };
-
-
-            let jwks_roles = Arc::new(
-                spec.as_ref()
-                    .local_proxy_config
-                    .iter()
-                    .flat_map(|it| &it.jwks)
-                    .flatten()
-                    .flat_map(|setting| &setting.role_names)
-                    .cloned()
-                    .collect::<HashSet<_>>(),
-            );
-
-            let ctx = Arc::new(tokio::sync::RwLock::new(MutableApplyContext {
-                roles,
-                dbs: databases,
-            }));
-
-            // Apply special pre drop database phase.
-            // NOTE: we use the code of RunInEachDatabase phase for parallelism
-            // and connection management, but we don't really run it in *each* database,
-            // only in databases, we're about to drop.
-            info!("Applying PerDatabase (pre-dropdb) phase");
-            let concurrency_token = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Semaphore::new(concurrency));
-
-            // Run the phase for each database that we're about to drop.
-            let db_processes = spec
-                .delta_operations
-                .iter()
-                .flatten()
-                .filter_map(move |op| {
-                    if op.action.as_str() == "delete_db" {
-                        Some(op.name.clone())
-                    } else {
-                        None
-                    }
-                })
-                .map(|dbname| {
-                    let spec = spec.clone();
-                    let ctx = ctx.clone();
-                    let jwks_roles = jwks_roles.clone();
-                    let mut conf = conf.as_ref().clone();
-                    let concurrency_token = concurrency_token.clone();
-                    // We only need dbname field for this phase, so set other fields to dummy values
-                    let db = DB::UserDB(Database {
-                        name: dbname.clone(),
-                        owner: "cloud_admin".to_string(),
-                        options: None,
-                        restrict_conn: false,
-                        invalid: false,
-                    });
-
-                    debug!("Applying per-database phases for Database {:?}", &db);
-
-                    match &db {
-                        DB::SystemDB => {}
-                        DB::UserDB(db) => {
-                            conf.dbname(db.name.as_str());
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    let conf = Arc::new(conf);
-                    let fut = Self::apply_spec_sql_db(
-                        spec.clone(),
-                        conf,
-                        ctx.clone(),
-                        jwks_roles.clone(),
-                        concurrency_token.clone(),
-                        db,
-                        [DropLogicalSubscriptions].to_vec(),
-                    );
-
-                    Ok(tokio::spawn(fut))
-                })
-                .collect::<Vec<Result<_, anyhow::Error>>>();
-
-            for process in db_processes.into_iter() {
-                let handle = process?;
-                if let Err(e) = handle.await? {
-                    // Handle the error case where the database does not exist
-                    // We do not check whether the DB exists or not in the deletion phase,
-                    // so we shouldn't be strict about it in pre-deletion cleanup as well.
-                    if e.to_string().contains("does not exist") {
-                        warn!("Error dropping subscription: {}", e);
-                    } else {
-                        return Err(e);
-                    }
-                };
-            }
-
-            for phase in [
-                CreateNeonSuperuser,
-                DropInvalidDatabases,
-                RenameRoles,
-                CreateAndAlterRoles,
-                RenameAndDeleteDatabases,
-                CreateAndAlterDatabases,
-                CreateSchemaNeon,
-            ] {
-                info!("Applying phase {:?}", &phase);
-                apply_operations(
-                    spec.clone(),
-                    ctx.clone(),
-                    jwks_roles.clone(),
-                    phase,
-                    || async { Ok(&client) },
-                )
-                .await?;
-            }
-
-            info!("Applying RunInEachDatabase2 phase");
-            let concurrency_token = Arc::new(tokio::sync::Semaphore::new(concurrency));
-
-            let db_processes = spec
-                .cluster
-                .databases
-                .iter()
-                .map(|db| DB::new(db.clone()))
-                // include
-                .chain(once(DB::SystemDB))
-                .map(|db| {
-                    let spec = spec.clone();
-                    let ctx = ctx.clone();
-                    let jwks_roles = jwks_roles.clone();
-                    let mut conf = conf.as_ref().clone();
-                    let concurrency_token = concurrency_token.clone();
-                    let db = db.clone();
-
-                    debug!("Applying per-database phases for Database {:?}", &db);
-
-                    match &db {
-                        DB::SystemDB => {}
-                        DB::UserDB(db) => {
-                            conf.dbname(db.name.as_str());
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    let conf = Arc::new(conf);
-                    let mut phases = vec![
-                        DeleteDBRoleReferences,
-                        ChangeSchemaPerms,
-                    ];
-
-                    if spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start && !drop_subscriptions_done {
-                        info!("Adding DropLogicalSubscriptions phase because drop_subscriptions_before_start is set");
-                        phases.push(DropLogicalSubscriptions);
-                    }
-
-                    let fut = Self::apply_spec_sql_db(
-                        spec.clone(),
-                        conf,
-                        ctx.clone(),
-                        jwks_roles.clone(),
-                        concurrency_token.clone(),
-                        db,
-                        phases,
-                    );
-
-                    Ok(tokio::spawn(fut))
-                })
-                .collect::<Vec<Result<_, anyhow::Error>>>();
-
-            for process in db_processes.into_iter() {
-                let handle = process?;
-                handle.await??;
-            }
-
-            let mut phases = vec![
-                HandleOtherExtensions,
-                HandleNeonExtension, // This step depends on CreateSchemaNeon
-                CreateAvailabilityCheck,
-                DropRoles,
-            ];
-
-            // This step depends on CreateSchemaNeon
-            if spec.drop_subscriptions_before_start && !drop_subscriptions_done {
-                info!("Adding FinalizeDropLogicalSubscriptions phase because drop_subscriptions_before_start is set");
-                phases.push(FinalizeDropLogicalSubscriptions);
-            }
-
-            // Keep DisablePostgresDBPgAudit phase at the end,
-            // so that all config operations are audit logged.
-            match spec.audit_log_level
-            {
-                ComputeAudit::Hipaa => {
-                    phases.push(CreatePgauditExtension);
-                    phases.push(CreatePgauditlogtofileExtension);
-                    phases.push(DisablePostgresDBPgAudit);
-                }
-                ComputeAudit::Log => {
-                    phases.push(CreatePgauditExtension);
-                    phases.push(DisablePostgresDBPgAudit);
-                }
-                ComputeAudit::Disabled => {}
-            }
-
-            for phase in phases {
-                debug!("Applying phase {:?}", &phase);
-                apply_operations(
-                    spec.clone(),
-                    ctx.clone(),
-                    jwks_roles.clone(),
-                    phase,
-                    || async { Ok(&client) },
-                )
-                .await?;
-            }
-
-            Ok::<(), anyhow::Error>(())
-        })?;
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    /// Apply SQL migrations of the RunInEachDatabase phase.
-    ///
-    /// May opt to not connect to databases that don't have any scheduled
-    /// operations.  The function is concurrency-controlled with the provided
-    /// semaphore.  The caller has to make sure the semaphore isn't exhausted.
-    async fn apply_spec_sql_db(
-        spec: Arc<ComputeSpec>,
-        conf: Arc<tokio_postgres::Config>,
-        ctx: Arc<tokio::sync::RwLock<MutableApplyContext>>,
-        jwks_roles: Arc<HashSet<String>>,
-        concurrency_token: Arc<tokio::sync::Semaphore>,
-        db: DB,
-        subphases: Vec<PerDatabasePhase>,
-    ) -> Result<()> {
-        let _permit = concurrency_token.acquire().await?;
-
-        let mut client_conn = None;
-
-        for subphase in subphases {
-            apply_operations(
-                spec.clone(),
-                ctx.clone(),
-                jwks_roles.clone(),
-                RunInEachDatabase {
-                    db: db.clone(),
-                    subphase,
-                },
-                // Only connect if apply_operation actually wants a connection.
-                // It's quite possible this database doesn't need any queries,
-                // so by not connecting we save time and effort connecting to
-                // that database.
-                || async {
-                    if client_conn.is_none() {
-                        let db_client = Self::get_maintenance_client(&conf).await?;
-                        client_conn.replace(db_client);
-                    }
-                    let client = client_conn.as_ref().unwrap();
-                    Ok(client)
-                },
-            )
-            .await?;
-        }
-
-        drop(client_conn);
-
-        Ok::<(), anyhow::Error>(())
-    }
-
-    /// Choose how many concurrent connections to use for applying the spec changes.
-    pub fn max_service_connections(
-        &self,
-        compute_state: &ComputeState,
-        spec: &ComputeSpec,
-    ) -> usize {
-        // If the cluster is in Init state we don't have to deal with user connections,
-        // and can thus use all `max_connections` connection slots. However, that's generally not
-        // very efficient, so we generally still limit it to a smaller number.
-        if compute_state.status == ComputeStatus::Init {
-            // If the settings contain 'max_connections', use that as template
-            if let Some(config) = spec.cluster.settings.find("max_connections") {
-                config.parse::<usize>().ok()
-            } else {
-                // Otherwise, try to find the setting in the postgresql_conf string
-                spec.cluster
-                    .postgresql_conf
-                    .iter()
-                    .flat_map(|conf| conf.split("\n"))
-                    .filter_map(|line| {
-                        if !line.contains("max_connections") {
-                            return None;
-                        }
-
-                        let (key, value) = line.split_once("=")?;
-                        let key = key
-                            .trim_start_matches(char::is_whitespace)
-                            .trim_end_matches(char::is_whitespace);
-
-                        let value = value
-                            .trim_start_matches(char::is_whitespace)
-                            .trim_end_matches(char::is_whitespace);
-
-                        if key != "max_connections" {
-                            return None;
-                        }
-
-                        value.parse::<usize>().ok()
-                    })
-                    .next()
-            }
-            // If max_connections is present, use at most 1/3rd of that.
-            // When max_connections is lower than 30, try to use at least 10 connections, but
-            // never more than max_connections.
-            .map(|limit| match limit {
-                0..10 => limit,
-                10..30 => 10,
-                30.. => limit / 3,
-            })
-            // If we didn't find max_connections, default to 10 concurrent connections.
-            .unwrap_or(10)
-        } else {
-            // state == Running
-            // Because the cluster is already in the Running state, we should assume users are
-            // already connected to the cluster, and high concurrency could negatively
-            // impact user connectivity. Therefore, we can limit concurrency to the number of
-            // reserved superuser connections, which users wouldn't be able to use anyway.
-            spec.cluster
-                .settings
-                .find("superuser_reserved_connections")
-                .iter()
-                .filter_map(|val| val.parse::<usize>().ok())
-                .map(|val| if val > 1 { val - 1 } else { 1 })
-                .next_back()
-                .unwrap_or(3)
-        }
-    }
-}
+use crate::compute::construct_superuser_query;
+use crate::pg_helpers::{DatabaseExt, Escaping, GenericOptionsSearch, RoleExt, escape_literal};

 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub enum DB {
@@ -457,6 +46,7 @@ impl Debug for DB {
 pub enum PerDatabasePhase {
    DeleteDBRoleReferences,
    ChangeSchemaPerms,
+    HandleAnonExtension,
    /// This is a shared phase, used for both i) dropping dangling LR subscriptions
    /// before dropping the DB, and ii) dropping all subscriptions after creating
    /// a fresh branch.
@@ -467,7 +57,7 @@ pub enum PerDatabasePhase {

 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub enum ApplySpecPhase {
-    CreateNeonSuperuser,
+    CreateSuperUser,
    DropInvalidDatabases,
    RenameRoles,
    CreateAndAlterRoles,
@@ -475,9 +65,6 @@ pub enum ApplySpecPhase {
    CreateAndAlterDatabases,
    CreateSchemaNeon,
    RunInEachDatabase { db: DB, subphase: PerDatabasePhase },
-    CreatePgauditExtension,
-    CreatePgauditlogtofileExtension,
-    DisablePostgresDBPgAudit,
    HandleOtherExtensions,
    HandleNeonExtension,
    CreateAvailabilityCheck,
@@ -594,10 +181,14 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
    apply_spec_phase: &'a ApplySpecPhase,
 ) -> Result<Box<dyn Iterator<Item = Operation> + 'a + Send>> {
    match apply_spec_phase {
-        ApplySpecPhase::CreateNeonSuperuser => Ok(Box::new(once(Operation {
-            query: include_str!("sql/create_neon_superuser.sql").to_string(),
-            comment: None,
-        }))),
+        ApplySpecPhase::CreateSuperUser => {
+            let query = construct_superuser_query(spec);
+
+            Ok(Box::new(once(Operation {
+                query,
+                comment: None,
+            })))
+        }
        ApplySpecPhase::DropInvalidDatabases => {
            let mut ctx = ctx.write().await;
            let databases = &mut ctx.dbs;
@@ -731,15 +322,14 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                        // We do not check whether the DB exists or not,
                        // Postgres will take care of it for us
                        "delete_db" => {
-                            let (db_name, outer_tag) = op.name.pg_quote_dollar();
                            // In Postgres we can't drop a database if it is a template.
                            // So we need to unset the template flag first, but it could
                            // be a retry, so we could've already dropped the database.
                            // Check that database exists first to make it idempotent.
                            let unset_template_query: String = format!(
                                include_str!("sql/unset_template_for_drop_dbs.sql"),
-                                datname = db_name,
-                                outer_tag = outer_tag,
+                                datname_str = escape_literal(&op.name),
+                                datname = &op.name.pg_quote()
                            );

                            // Use FORCE to drop database even if there are active connections.
@@ -846,8 +436,6 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                                comment: None,
                            },
                            Operation {
-                                // ALL PRIVILEGES grants CREATE, CONNECT, and TEMPORARY on the database
-                                // (see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html)
                                query: format!(
                                    "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE {} TO neon_superuser",
                                    db.name.pg_quote()
@@ -907,11 +495,9 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                PerDatabasePhase::DropLogicalSubscriptions => {
                    match &db {
                        DB::UserDB(db) => {
-                            let (db_name, outer_tag) = db.name.pg_quote_dollar();
                            let drop_subscription_query: String = format!(
                                include_str!("sql/drop_subscriptions.sql"),
-                                datname_str = db_name,
-                                outer_tag = outer_tag,
+                                datname_str = escape_literal(&db.name),
                            );

                            let operations = vec![Operation {
@@ -950,7 +536,6 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                                    DB::SystemDB => PgIdent::from("cloud_admin").pg_quote(),
                                    DB::UserDB(db) => db.owner.pg_quote(),
                                };
-                                let (escaped_role, outer_tag) = op.name.pg_quote_dollar();

                                Some(vec![
                                    // This will reassign all dependent objects to the db owner
@@ -965,9 +550,7 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                                    Operation {
                                        query: format!(
                                            include_str!("sql/pre_drop_role_revoke_privileges.sql"),
-                                            // N.B. this has to be properly dollar-escaped with `pg_quote_dollar()`
-                                            role_name = escaped_role,
-                                            outer_tag = outer_tag,
+                                            role_name = quoted,
                                        ),
                                        comment: None,
                                    },
@@ -992,14 +575,12 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                        DB::SystemDB => return Ok(Box::new(empty())),
                        DB::UserDB(db) => db,
                    };
-                    let (db_owner, outer_tag) = db.owner.pg_quote_dollar();

                    let operations = vec![
                        Operation {
                            query: format!(
                                include_str!("sql/set_public_schema_owner.sql"),
-                                db_owner = db_owner,
-                                outer_tag = outer_tag,
+                                db_owner = db.owner.pg_quote()
                            ),
                            comment: None,
                        },
@@ -1010,6 +591,98 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
                    ]
                    .into_iter();

+                    Ok(Box::new(operations))
+                }
+                // TODO: remove this completely https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/22663
+                PerDatabasePhase::HandleAnonExtension => {
+                    // Only install Anon into user databases
+                    let db = match &db {
+                        DB::SystemDB => return Ok(Box::new(empty())),
+                        DB::UserDB(db) => db,
+                    };
+                    // Never install Anon when it's not enabled as feature
+                    if !spec.features.contains(&ComputeFeature::AnonExtension) {
+                        return Ok(Box::new(empty()));
+                    }
+
+                    // Only install Anon when it's added in preload libraries
+                    let opt_libs = spec.cluster.settings.find("shared_preload_libraries");
+
+                    let libs = match opt_libs {
+                        Some(libs) => libs,
+                        None => return Ok(Box::new(empty())),
+                    };
+
+                    if !libs.contains("anon") {
+                        return Ok(Box::new(empty()));
+                    }
+
+                    let db_owner = db.owner.pg_quote();
+
+                    let operations = vec![
+                        // Create anon extension if this compute needs it
+                        // Users cannot create it themselves, because superuser is required.
+                        Operation {
+                            query: String::from("CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS anon CASCADE"),
+                            comment: Some(String::from("creating anon extension")),
+                        },
+                        // Initialize anon extension
+                        // This also requires superuser privileges, so users cannot do it themselves.
+                        Operation {
+                            query: String::from("SELECT anon.init()"),
+                            comment: Some(String::from("initializing anon extension data")),
+                        },
+                        Operation {
+                            query: format!("GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA anon TO {}", db_owner),
+                            comment: Some(String::from(
+                                "granting anon extension schema permissions",
+                            )),
+                        },
+                        Operation {
+                            query: format!(
+                                "GRANT ALL ON ALL FUNCTIONS IN SCHEMA anon TO {}",
+                                db_owner
+                            ),
+                            comment: Some(String::from(
+                                "granting anon extension schema functions permissions",
+                            )),
+                        },
+                        // We need this, because some functions are defined as SECURITY DEFINER.
+                        // In Postgres SECURITY DEFINER functions are executed with the privileges
+                        // of the owner.
+                        // In anon extension this it is needed to access some GUCs, which are only accessible to
+                        // superuser. But we've patched postgres to allow db_owner to access them as well.
+                        // So we need to change owner of these functions to db_owner.
+                        Operation {
+                            query: format!(
+                                include_str!("sql/anon_ext_fn_reassign.sql"),
+                                db_owner = db_owner,
+                            ),
+                            comment: Some(String::from(
+                                "change anon extension functions owner to database_owner",
+                            )),
+                        },
+                        Operation {
+                            query: format!(
+                                "GRANT ALL ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA anon TO {}",
+                                db_owner,
+                            ),
+                            comment: Some(String::from(
+                                "granting anon extension tables permissions",
+                            )),
+                        },
+                        Operation {
+                            query: format!(
+                                "GRANT ALL ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA anon TO {}",
+                                db_owner,
+                            ),
+                            comment: Some(String::from(
+                                "granting anon extension sequences permissions",
+                            )),
+                        },
+                    ]
+                    .into_iter();
+
                    Ok(Box::new(operations))
                }
            }
@@ -1027,25 +700,6 @@ async fn get_operations<'a>(
            }
            Ok(Box::new(empty()))
        }
-        ApplySpecPhase::CreatePgauditExtension => Ok(Box::new(once(Operation {
-            query: String::from("CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pgaudit"),
-            comment: Some(String::from("create pgaudit extensions")),
-        }))),
-        ApplySpecPhase::CreatePgauditlogtofileExtension => Ok(Box::new(once(Operation {
-            query: String::from("CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pgauditlogtofile"),
-            comment: Some(String::from("create pgauditlogtofile extensions")),
-        }))),
-        // Disable pgaudit logging for postgres database.
-        // Postgres is neon system database used by monitors
-        // and compute_ctl tuning functions and thus generates a lot of noise.
-        // We do not consider data stored in this database as sensitive.
-        ApplySpecPhase::DisablePostgresDBPgAudit => {
-            let query = "ALTER DATABASE postgres SET pgaudit.log to 'none'";
-            Ok(Box::new(once(Operation {
-                query: query.to_string(),
-                comment: Some(query.to_string()),
-            })))
-        }
        ApplySpecPhase::HandleNeonExtension => {
            let operations = vec![
                Operation {
--- a/compute_tools/src/sql/create_neon_superuser.sql
+++ b/compute_tools/src/sql/create_neon_superuser.sql
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-DO $$
-    BEGIN
-        IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles WHERE rolname = 'neon_superuser')
-        THEN
-            CREATE ROLE neon_superuser CREATEDB CREATEROLE NOLOGIN REPLICATION BYPASSRLS IN ROLE pg_read_all_data, pg_write_all_data;
-        END IF;
-    END
-$$;
--- a/compute_tools/src/sql/drop_subscriptions.sql
+++ b/compute_tools/src/sql/drop_subscriptions.sql
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DO ${outer_tag}$
+DO $$
 DECLARE
    subname TEXT;
 BEGIN
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ BEGIN
        EXECUTE format('DROP SUBSCRIPTION %I;', subname);
    END LOOP;
 END;
-${outer_tag}$;
+$$;
--- a/compute_tools/src/sql/pre_drop_role_revoke_privileges.sql
+++ b/compute_tools/src/sql/pre_drop_role_revoke_privileges.sql
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-DO ${outer_tag}$
+SET SESSION ROLE neon_superuser;
+
+DO $$
 DECLARE
    schema TEXT;
-    grantor TEXT;
    revoke_query TEXT;
 BEGIN
    FOR schema IN
@@ -14,25 +15,14 @@ BEGIN
        -- ii) it's easy to add more schemas to the list if needed.
        WHERE schema_name IN ('public')
    LOOP
-        FOR grantor IN EXECUTE
-            format(
-                'SELECT DISTINCT rtg.grantor FROM information_schema.role_table_grants AS rtg WHERE grantee = %s',
-                -- N.B. this has to be properly dollar-escaped with `pg_quote_dollar()`
-                quote_literal({role_name})
-            )
-        LOOP
-            EXECUTE format('SET LOCAL ROLE %I', grantor);
+        revoke_query := format(
+            'REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA %I FROM {role_name} GRANTED BY neon_superuser;',
+            schema
+        );

-            revoke_query := format(
-                'REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA %I FROM %I GRANTED BY %I',
-                schema,
-                -- N.B. this has to be properly dollar-escaped with `pg_quote_dollar()`
-                {role_name},
-                grantor
-            );
-
-            EXECUTE revoke_query;
-        END LOOP;
+        EXECUTE revoke_query;
    END LOOP;
 END;
-${outer_tag}$;
+$$;
+
+RESET ROLE;
--- a/compute_tools/src/sql/set_public_schema_owner.sql
+++ b/compute_tools/src/sql/set_public_schema_owner.sql
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-DO ${outer_tag}$
+DO
+$$
    DECLARE
        schema_owner TEXT;
    BEGIN
@@ -15,8 +16,8 @@ DO ${outer_tag}$

            IF schema_owner = 'cloud_admin' OR schema_owner = 'zenith_admin'
            THEN
-                EXECUTE format('ALTER SCHEMA public OWNER TO %I', {db_owner});
+                ALTER SCHEMA public OWNER TO {db_owner};
            END IF;
        END IF;
    END
-${outer_tag}$;
+$$;
--- a/compute_tools/src/sql/unset_template_for_drop_dbs.sql
+++ b/compute_tools/src/sql/unset_template_for_drop_dbs.sql
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-DO ${outer_tag}$
+DO $$
    BEGIN
        IF EXISTS(
            SELECT 1
            FROM pg_catalog.pg_database
-            WHERE datname = {datname}
+            WHERE datname = {datname_str}
        )
        THEN
-            EXECUTE format('ALTER DATABASE %I is_template false', {datname});
+            ALTER DATABASE {datname} is_template false;
        END IF;
    END
-${outer_tag}$;
+$$;
--- a/compute_tools/src/tls.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/tls.rs
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-use std::{io::Write, os::unix::fs::OpenOptionsExt, path::Path, time::Duration};
-
-use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
-use compute_api::responses::TlsConfig;
-use ring::digest;
-use spki::der::{Decode, PemReader};
-use x509_cert::Certificate;
-
-#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
-pub struct CertDigest(digest::Digest);
-
-pub async fn watch_cert_for_changes(cert_path: String) -> tokio::sync::watch::Receiver<CertDigest> {
-    let mut digest = compute_digest(&cert_path).await;
-    let (tx, rx) = tokio::sync::watch::channel(digest);
-    tokio::spawn(async move {
-        while !tx.is_closed() {
-            let new_digest = compute_digest(&cert_path).await;
-            if digest.0.as_ref() != new_digest.0.as_ref() {
-                digest = new_digest;
-                _ = tx.send(digest);
-            }
-
-            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(60)).await
-        }
-    });
-    rx
-}
-
-async fn compute_digest(cert_path: &str) -> CertDigest {
-    loop {
-        match try_compute_digest(cert_path).await {
-            Ok(d) => break d,
-            Err(e) => {
-                tracing::error!("could not read cert file {e:?}");
-                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1)).await
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-async fn try_compute_digest(cert_path: &str) -> Result<CertDigest> {
-    let data = tokio::fs::read(cert_path).await?;
-    // sha256 is extremely collision resistent. can safely assume the digest to be unique
-    Ok(CertDigest(digest::digest(&digest::SHA256, &data)))
-}
-
-pub const SERVER_CRT: &str = "server.crt";
-pub const SERVER_KEY: &str = "server.key";
-
-pub fn update_key_path_blocking(pg_data: &Path, tls_config: &TlsConfig) {
-    loop {
-        match try_update_key_path_blocking(pg_data, tls_config) {
-            Ok(()) => break,
-            Err(e) => {
-                tracing::error!("could not create key file {e:?}");
-                std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1))
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-// Postgres requires the keypath be "secure". This means
-// 1. Owned by the postgres user.
-// 2. Have permission 600.
-fn try_update_key_path_blocking(pg_data: &Path, tls_config: &TlsConfig) -> Result<()> {
-    let key = std::fs::read_to_string(&tls_config.key_path)?;
-    let crt = std::fs::read_to_string(&tls_config.cert_path)?;
-
-    // to mitigate a race condition during renewal.
-    verify_key_cert(&key, &crt)?;
-
-    let mut key_file = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
-        .write(true)
-        .create(true)
-        .truncate(true)
-        .mode(0o600)
-        .open(pg_data.join(SERVER_KEY))?;
-
-    let mut crt_file = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
-        .write(true)
-        .create(true)
-        .truncate(true)
-        .mode(0o600)
-        .open(pg_data.join(SERVER_CRT))?;
-
-    key_file.write_all(key.as_bytes())?;
-    crt_file.write_all(crt.as_bytes())?;
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-fn verify_key_cert(key: &str, cert: &str) -> Result<()> {
-    use x509_cert::der::oid::db::rfc5912::ECDSA_WITH_SHA_256;
-
-    let cert = Certificate::decode(&mut PemReader::new(cert.as_bytes()).context("pem reader")?)
-        .context("decode cert")?;
-
-    match cert.signature_algorithm.oid {
-        ECDSA_WITH_SHA_256 => {
-            let key = p256::SecretKey::from_sec1_pem(key).context("parse key")?;
-
-            let a = key.public_key().to_sec1_bytes();
-            let b = cert
-                .tbs_certificate
-                .subject_public_key_info
-                .subject_public_key
-                .raw_bytes();
-
-            if *a != *b {
-                bail!("private key file does not match certificate")
-            }
-        }
-        _ => bail!("unknown TLS key type"),
-    }
-
-    Ok(())
-}
--- a/compute_tools/tests/pg_helpers_tests.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/tests/pg_helpers_tests.rs
@@ -61,24 +61,6 @@ test.escaping = 'here''s a backslash \\ and a quote '' and a double-quote " hoor
        assert_eq!(ident.pg_quote(), "\"\"\"name\"\";\\n select 1;\"");
    }

-    #[test]
-    fn ident_pg_quote_dollar() {
-        let test_cases = vec![
-            ("name", ("$x$name$x$", "xx")),
-            ("name$", ("$x$name$$x$", "xx")),
-            ("name$$", ("$x$name$$$x$", "xx")),
-            ("name$$$", ("$x$name$$$$x$", "xx")),
-            ("name$$$$", ("$x$name$$$$$x$", "xx")),
-            ("name$x$", ("$xx$name$x$$xx$", "xxx")),
-        ];
-
-        for (input, expected) in test_cases {
-            let (escaped, tag) = PgIdent::from(input).pg_quote_dollar();
-            assert_eq!(escaped, expected.0);
-            assert_eq!(tag, expected.1);
-        }
-    }
-
    #[test]
    fn generic_options_search() {
        let generic_options: GenericOptions = Some(vec![
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
				`@@ -1 +0,0 @@`
				`SELECT lfc_value AS lfc_chunk_size_pages FROM neon.neon_lfc_stats WHERE lfc_key = 'file_cache_chunk_size_pages';`
				`@@ -1 +0,0 @@`
				`SELECT lfc_value AS lfc_used_pages FROM neon.neon_lfc_stats WHERE lfc_key = 'file_cache_used_pages';`