How to install Postgres

Postgres is relational database with a strong SQL dialect and a large extension ecosystem. The project is developed in the open and released under its own licence.

About the project

Postgres is relational database with a strong SQL dialect and a large extension ecosystem. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

Governance sits with the project's own team. They decide what ships, how often it ships, and which platforms are supported.

How projects are distributed

Projects of this kind are usually reached through the operating system's package index, through a language-specific registry, or by building the published source tree. Which route applies depends on the platform and on the maintainers' own guidance.

Platform requirements

It is worth checking which platforms the current release targets. Support windows differ, and the newest version is not always the one that fits an older machine.

Afterwards

A version query afterwards is usually enough to confirm the environment picked it up. If the result is unexpected, the usual causes are a stale path entry or a version manager resolving to a different release.

About these pages

These pages are maintained as reading notes. No project files are stored here.