PostgreSQL Container Images by EnterpriseDB

Maintenance scripts to generate Immutable Application Containers for all available PostgreSQL versions (12 to 17) based on Red Hat Universal Base Images (UBI) 8 and 9:

• Standard minimal image - amd64/arm64
  • multilang version (all Locales installed) - amd64/arm64
  • multiarch version (all Locales installed) - amd64/arm64/ppc64le/s390x
• with the PostGIS extension - amd64/arm64
  • PostGIS + multilang (all Locales installed) - amd64/arm64
  • PostGIS + multiarch (all Locales installed) - amd64/arm64/ppc64le/s390x

Multilang images (-multilang) are container images enhanced with the full list of Locales. Multiarch images (-multiarch) are container images built for amd64/arm64/ppc64le/s390x architectures and enhanced with the full list of Locales.

These images are customised to work with EDB Postgres for Kubernetes by EDB for Kubernetes and Red Hat Openshift.

It is also possible to run them directly with Docker, for PostgreSQL evaluation and testing purposes only.

The images include:

• PostgreSQL
• Barman Cloud
• PostGIS 3 (optional)
• PGAudit
• pgRouting (on PostGIS images only)
• pgvector
• Postgres Failover Slots
• pg_squeeze
• All language packs for glibc (optional)

PostgreSQL is distributed by the PGDG under the PostgreSQL License.

Barman Cloud is distributed by EnterpriseDB under the GNU GPL 3 License.

PostGIS is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 License.

PGAudit is distributed under the PostgreSQL License.

pgvector is distributed under the PostgreSQL License.

pgRouting is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 License, with the same Boost extensions available under Boost Software License.

Postgres Failover Slots is distributed by EnterpriseDB under the PostgreSQL License.

The Docker entry point is based on Docker Postgres distributed by the PostgreSQL Docker Community under MIT license.

Where to get them

Images are available via GitHub Container Registry and Quay.io.

How to pull the image

The image can be pulled with the docker pull command, following the instructions you find in the GitHub Container Registy (GHCR) or Quay.io.

For example you can pull the latest minor version of the latest major version of PostgreSQL based on RedHat UBI from GHCR with the following command:

docker pull ghcr.io/enterprisedb/postgresql

Note: replace ghcr.io with quay.io to download from Quay.io.

If you want to use the latest minor version of a particular major version of PostgreSQL, for example 15, on UBI you can type:

docker pull ghcr.io/enterprisedb/postgresql:15

IMPORTANT: in the examples below we assume that the latest minor of the latest major version is used.

How to use this image with Docker

Start a PostgreSQL instance in background

$ docker run -d \
   --name some-postgres \
   -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword \
   ghcr.io/enterprisedb/postgresql

The default postgres user and database are created in the entrypoint with initdb.

The postgres database is a default database meant for use by users, utilities and third party applications.

postgresql.org/docs

Disposable environment to run SQL commands via psql

You can spin up a disposable PostgreSQL database and run queries using the psql command line client utility with:

$ docker run -it --rm \
   --network some-network \
   ghcr.io/enterprisedb/postgresql \
   psql -h some-postgres -U postgres
psql (15.1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# SELECT 1;
 ?column?
----------
        1
(1 row)