PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting
almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and
user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source
database available anywhere. Commercial Support is also available.
The original Postgres code was the effort of many graduate students,
undergraduate students, and staff programmers working under the direction of
Professor Michael Stonebraker at the University of California, Berkeley. In
1995, Andrew Yu and Jolly Chen took on the task of converting the DBMS query
language to SQL and created a new database system which came to known as
Postgres95. Many others contributed to the porting, testing, debugging and
enhancement of the Postgres95 code. As the code improved, and 1995 faded into
memory, PostgreSQL was born.
PostgreSQL development is presently being performed by a team of Internet
developers who are now responsible for all current and future development. The
development team coordinator is Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@PostgreSQL.ORG).
Support is available from the PostgreSQL developer/user community through the
support mailing list (questions@PostgreSQL.ORG).
PostgreSQL is free and the complete source is available.
===> The following configuration options are available for postgresql17-server-17.11:
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
DTRACE=off: Build with DTrace probes
GSSAPI=off: Build with GSSAPI from base (security/krb5)
LDAP=off: Build with LDAP authentication support
LLVM=on: Build with support for JIT-compiling expressions
LZ4=on: Build with LZ4 compression support
NLS=on: Use internationalized messages
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=off: Builds with compiler optimizations (-O3)
PAM=off: Build with PAM Support
SSL=on: Build with OpenSSL support
TZDATA=off: Use internal timezone database
XML=on: Build with XML data type
ZSTD=on: Build with ZSTD compression support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Affects: users of databases/postgresql* and other software using PostgreSQL to run
Author: kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
The default version of PostgreSQL has been switched from 17 to 18.
The upgrade procedure can use up twice the space the databases
currently needs. If you have a big amount of stored data take a
closer look at the manpage of pg_upgrade for avoidance and/or
speedup of the upgrade.
The upgrade instructions consider a basic usage and do not match
complex scenarios like replication, sharding, or similar.
Upgrade instructions:
First stop your PostgreSQL, create PostgreSQL-binaries and backup your data.
If you have another Version of PostgreSQL installed, for example 17, your
files are named according to this.
# service postgresql stop
# pkg create postgresql17-server postgresql17-contrib
# mkdir /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql17-server-17.9.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql17-contrib-17.9.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# pkg delete -f databases/postgresql17-server databases/postgresql17-contrib databases/postgresql17-client
Now update PostgreSQL:
pkg user:
# pkg install databases/postgresql18-server databases/postgresql18-contrib
# pkg upgrade
Portmaster users:
# portmaster databases/postgresql18-server databases/postgresql18-contrib
# portmaster -a
Portupgrade users:
# portinstall databases/postgresql18-server databases/postgresql18-contrib
# portupgrade -a
After installing the new PostgreSQL version you need to convert
all your databases to new version:
# su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/bin/initdb --encoding=utf-8 --lc-collate=C --no-data-checksums -D /var/db/postgres/data18 -U postgres"
# su -l postgres -c "pg_upgrade -b /tmp/pg-upgrade/usr/local/bin/ -d /var/db/postgres/data17/ -B /usr/local/bin/ -D /var/db/postgres/data18/ -U postgres "
Now the migration is finished. You can start PostgreSQL again with:
# service postgresql start
ATTENTION:
1) If you use non-default initdb options, you have to adjust the initdb-command accordingly
2) The initdb in the upgrade procedure uses '--no-data-checksums' to enable
pg_upgrade from before this change. You should review the documentation and
decide whether you want to then enable checksums with pg_checksums. Future
upgrade instructions for PostgreSQL 19 and later will assume a default
initdb, and therefore that checksums are enabled.
Affects: users of databases/postgresql* and other software using PostgreSQL to run
Author: kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
The default version of PostgreSQL has been switched from 16 to 17.
The upgrade procedure can use up twice the space the databases
currently needs. If you have a big amount of stored data take a
closer look at the manpage of pg_upgrade for avoidance and/or
speedup of the upgrade.
The upgrade instructions consider a basic usage and do not match
complex scenarios like replication, sharding, or similar.
Upgrade instructions:
First stop your PostgreSQL, create PostgreSQL-binaries and backup your data.
If you have another Version of PostgreSQL installed, for example 16, your
files are named according to this.
# service postgresql stop
# pkg create postgresql16-server postgresql16-contrib
# mkdir /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql16-server-16.8.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql16-contrib-16.8.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# pkg delete -f databases/postgresql16-server databases/postgresql16-contrib databases/postgresql16-client
Now update PostgreSQL:
pkg user:
# pkg install databases/postgresql17-server databases/postgresql17-contrib
# pkg upgrade
Portmaster users:
# portmaster databases/postgresql17-server databases/postgresql17-contrib
# portmaster -a
Portupgrade users:
# portinstall databases/postgresql17-server databases/postgresql17-contrib
# portupgrade -a
After installing the new PostgreSQL version you need to convert
all your databases to new version:
# su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/bin/initdb --encoding=utf-8 --lc-collate=C -D /var/db/postgres/data17 -U postgres"
# su -l postgres -c "pg_upgrade -b /tmp/pg-upgrade/usr/local/bin/ -d /var/db/postgres/data16/ -B /usr/local/bin/ -D /var/db/postgres/data17/ -U postgres "
Now the migration is finished. You can start PostgreSQL again with:
# service postgresql start
ATTENTION:
1) If you use non-default initdb options, you have to adjust the initdb-command accordingly
2024-07-23
Affects: users of databases/postgresql* and other software using PostgreSQL to run
Author: kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
The default version of PostgreSQL has been switched from 15 to 16.
The upgrade procedure can use up twice the space the databases
currently needs. If you have a big amount of stored data take a
closer look at the manpage of pg_upgrade for avoidance and/or
speedup of the upgrade.
The upgrade instructions consider a basic usage and do not match
complex scenarios like replication, sharding, or similar.
Upgrade instructions:
First stop your PostgreSQL, create PostgreSQL-binaries and backup your data.
If you have another Version of PostgreSQL installed, for example 15, your
files are named according to this.
# service postgresql stop
# pkg create postgresql15-server postgresql15-contrib
# mkdir /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql15-server-15.7.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql15-contrib-15.7.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# pkg delete -f databases/postgresql15-server databases/postgresql15-contrib databases/postgresql15-client
Now update PostgreSQL:
pkg user:
# pkg install databases/postgresql16-server databases/postgresql16-contrib
# pkg upgrade
Portmaster users:
# portmaster databases/postgresql16-server databases/postgresql16-contrib
# portmaster -a
Portupgrade users:
# portinstall databases/postgresql16-server databases/postgresql16-contrib
# portupgrade -a
After installing the new PostgreSQL version you need to convert
all your databases to new version:
# su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/bin/initdb --encoding=utf-8 --lc-collate=C -D /var/db/postgres/data16 -U postgres"
# su -l postgres -c "pg_upgrade -b /tmp/pg-upgrade/usr/local/bin/ -d /var/db/postgres/data15/ -B /usr/local/bin/ -D /var/db/postgres/data16/ -U postgres "
Now the migration is finished. You can start PostgreSQL again with:
# service postgresql start
ATTENTION:
1) If you use non-default initdb options, you have to adjust the initdb-command accordingly
2023-09-08
Affects: users of databases/postgresql* and other software using PostgreSQL to run
Author: kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
The default version of PostgreSQL has been switched from 13 to 15.
The upgrade procedure can use up twice the space the databases
currently needs. If you have a big amount of stored data take a
closer look at the manpage of pg_upgrade for avoidance and/or
speedup of the upgrade.
The upgrade instructions consider a basic usage and do not match
complex scenarios like replication, sharding, or similar.
Upgrade instructions:
First stop your PostgreSQL, create PostgreSQL-binaries and backup your data.
If you have another Version of PostgreSQL installed, for example 13, your
files are named according to this.
# service postgresql stop
# pkg create postgresql13-server postgresql13-contrib
# mkdir /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql13-server-13.12.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql13-contrib-13.12.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# pkg delete -f databases/postgresql13-server databases/postgresql13-contrib databases/postgresql13-client
Now update PostgreSQL:
pkg user:
# pkg install databases/postgresql15-server databases/postgresql15-contrib
# pkg upgrade
Portmaster users:
# portmaster databases/postgresql15-server databases/postgresql15-contrib
# portmaster -a
Portupgrade users:
# portinstall databases/postgresql15-server databases/postgresql15-contrib
# portupgrade -a
After installing the new PostgreSQL version you need to convert
all your databases to new version:
# su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/bin/initdb --encoding=utf-8 --lc-collate=C -D /var/db/postgres/data15 -U postgres"
# su -l postgres -c "pg_upgrade -b /tmp/pg-upgrade/usr/local/bin/ -d /var/db/postgres/data13/ -B /usr/local/bin/ -D /var/db/postgres/data15/ -U postgres "
Now the migration is finished. You can start PostgreSQL again with:
# service postgresql start
ATTENTION:
1) The default user changed from "pgsql" to "postgres" in 11. The migration steps above now assume
the "postgres" database user and FreeBSD user.
2) If you use non-default initdb options, you have to adjust the initdb-command accordingly
2021-10-24
Affects: users of databases/postgresql* and other software using PostgreSQL to run
Author: kbowling@FreeBSD.org
Reason:
The default version of PostgreSQL has been switched from 12 to 13.
The upgrade procedure can use up twice the space the databases
currently needs. If you have a big amount of stored data take a
closer look at the manpage of pg_upgrade for avoidance and/or
speedup of the upgrade.
The upgrade instructions consider a basic usage and do not match
complex scenarios like replication, sharding, or similar.
Upgrade instructions:
First stop your PostgreSQL, create PostgreSQL-binaries and backup your data.
If you have another Version of PostgreSQL installed, for example 12.8, your
files are named according to this.
# service postgresql stop
# pkg create postgresql12-server postgresql12-contrib
# mkdir /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql12-server-12.8.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# tar xf postgresql12-contrib-12.8.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
# pkg delete -f databases/postgresql12-server databases/postgresql12-contrib databases/postgresql12-client
Now update PostgreSQL:
pkg user:
# pkg install databases/postgresql13-server databases/postgresql13-contrib
# pkg upgrade
Portmaster users:
# portmaster databases/postgresql13-server databases/postgresql13-contrib
# portmaster -a
Portupgrade users:
# portinstall databases/postgresql13-server databases/postgresql13-contrib
# portupgrade -a
After installing the new PostgreSQL version you need to convert
all your databases to new version:
# su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/bin/initdb --encoding=utf-8 --lc-collate=C -D /var/db/postgres/data13 -U postgres"
# su -l postgres -c "pg_upgrade -b /tmp/pg-upgrade/usr/local/bin/ -d /var/db/postgres/data12/ -B /usr/local/bin/ -D /var/db/postgres/data13/ -U postgres "
Now the migration is finished. You can start PostgreSQL again with:
# service postgresql start
ATTENTION:
1) The default user changed from "pgsql" to "postgres" in 11. The migration steps above now assume
the "postgres" database user and FreeBSD user.
2) If you use non-default initdb options, you have to adjust the initdb-command accordingly
databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest versions
Update to 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19 and 14.24.
This release fixes 28 security vulnerabilities and over 110 bugs
reported over the last several months.
Welcome postgresql19 to the ports tree with 19-beta3.
Note: PostgreSQL 18.5 was skipped due to a regression; the fix
version is 18.6.
PostgreSQL 14 will stop receiving fixes on 2026-11-12.
Changes: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-186-1711-1615-1519-1424-and-19-beta-3-released-3365/
Security: 05d311bc-9991-11f1-bc50-6cc21735f730
databases/postgresql??-*: Upgrade to latest version
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18,
and 14.23. This release fixes 11 security vulnerabilities and over 60
bugs reported over the last several months.
Release notes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
PostgreSQL 14 EOL Notice
PostgreSQL 14 will stop receiving fixes on November 12, 2026. If you are
running PostgreSQL 14 in a production environment, we suggest that you
make plans to upgrade to a newer, supported version of PostgreSQL.
Please see our versioning policy for more information.
Security: 7185ecc9-4fb7-11f1-bc50-6cc21735f730
CVE-2026-6472, CVE-2026-6473, CVE-2026-6474,
CVE-2026-6475, CVE-2026-6476, CVE-2026-6477,
CVE-2026-6478, CVE-2026-6479, CVE-2026-6575,
CVE-2026-6637, CVE-2026-6638.
databases/postgresql*-*: Update to latest version
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 18.2, 17.8, 16.12, 15.16,
and 14.21. This release fixes 5 security vulnerabilities and over 65
bugs reported over the last several months.
Release notes:
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-182-178-1612-1516-and-1421-released-3235/https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
Security:
CVE-2026-2003: PostgreSQL oidvector discloses a few bytes of memory
CVE-2026-2004: PostgreSQL intarray missing validation of type of input to
selectivity estimator executes arbitrary code
CVE-2026-2005: PostgreSQL pgcrypto heap buffer overflow executes arbitrary code
CVE-2026-2006: PostgreSQL missing validation of multibyte character length
executes arbitrary code
CVE-2026-2007: PostgreSQL pg_trgm heap buffer overflow writes pattern onto
server memory
Remove postgresql13* since it is now EoL.
databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest versions
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15,
14.20, and 13.23. This release fixes 2 security vulnerabilities and over
50 bugs reported over the last several months.
This is the final release of PostgreSQL 13. PostgreSQL 13 is now
end-of-life and will no longer receive security and bug fixes.
Release
notes: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-181-177-1611-1515-1420-and-1323-released-3171/
databases/postgresql{13,14,15,16,17,18}-*: Multiple fixes
- Strip shared library and binary executable
- Fix stage-qa
- Bump PORTREVISION for package change
postgresql{13,14,15,16,17,18}-server:
- Clean up Makefile: Remove unnecessary ";\"
- Sort PLIST: share/locale comes before DATADIR (share/postgresql)
postgresql{17,18}-plperl:
- Remove duplicate USES=perl5
- Add missing USE_PERL5=run
from postgresql{17,18}-plperl build log:
====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa)
Error: /usr/local/lib/postgresql/bool_plperl.so is linked to
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.40/mach/CORE/libperl.so.5.40 from lang/perl5.40 but it is
not declared as a dependency
PR: 290587
Approved by: girgen
databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest versions
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19,
and 13.22, as well as the third beta release of PostgreSQL 18. This
release fixes 3 security vulnerabilities and over 55 bugs reported over
the last several months.
If you previously created a BRIN index using the
numeric_minmax_multi_ops operator class, please see the "Updating"
section for additional instructions after upgrading your instance.
For the full list of changes, please review the release notes.
Build client with ZSTD default [1].
Support promote and logrotate commans in RC-script. [2]
PR: 287225 [1], 288836 [2]
Security: fc048b51-7909-11f0-90a2-6cc21735f730
Release
notes: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-176-1610-1514-1419-1322-and-18-beta-3-released-3118/
databases/postgresql1?-contrib: Fix plist issue for openssl=off
When OPENSSL=off, pgcrypto was not built but existed unconditionally in
the plist.
Noted by: Andrea Venturoli
databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest version
PostgreSQL 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21 Released!
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18,
and 13.21. This release fixes 1 security vulnerability and over 60 bugs
reported over the last several months.
Security: 78b8e808-2c45-11f0-9a65-6cc21735f730
Release
notes: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-175-169-1513-1418-and-1321-released-3072/
databases/postgresql??-*: Upgrade to latest versions
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17,
and 13.20.
The issues listed below affect PostgreSQL 17. Some of these issues may
also affect other supported versions of PostgreSQL.
Improve behavior of quoting functions in libpq. The fix for
CVE-2025-1094 caused the quoting functions to not honor their string
length parameters and, in some cases, cause crashes. This problem could
be noticeable from a PostgreSQL client library, based on how it is
integrated with libpq.
Fix small memory leak in pg_createsubscriber.
Also fix a problem in the FreeBSD port, where the rc script wouldn't
return properly, messing up orchestration tools like ansible. [1]
PR: 272502 [1]
Release notes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest versions
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16,
and 13.19. This release fixes 1 security vulnerability and over 70 bugs
reported over the last several months.
For the full list of changes, please review the release notes.
This commit also removes the broken support for Heimdal and fixes the
build when using MIT Kerberos. [1]
PR: 220325 suggested by Cullum Smith and many others. [1]
Release notes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
Security: fadf3b41-ea19-11ef-a540-6cc21735f730
databases/postgresql1{3,4,5,6,7}-client: Recommend py-psycopg over py-psycopg2
Upstream Python package maintainers recommend using the psycopg 3.x over
psycopg2 for new projects since the latter is in maintenance mode only.
Approved by: girgen (pgsql)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48493
databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest version
The issues listed below affect PostgreSQL 17. Some of these issues may
also affect other supported versions of PostgreSQL.
- Restore functionality of ALTER ROLE .. SET ROLE and ALTER DATABASE ..
SET ROLE. The fix for CVE-2024-10978 accidentally caused settings for
role to not be applied if they came from non-interactive sources,
including previous ALTER {ROLE|DATABASE} commands and the PGOPTIONS
environment variable.
- Restore compatibility for the timescaledb and other PostgreSQL
extensions built using PostgreSQL prior to the 2024-11-14 release
(17.0, 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, 12.20, and earlier). This fix restores
struct ResultRelInfo to its previous size, so that affected extensions
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databases/postgresql??-*: Update to latest versions
PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 Released!
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all
supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14,
13.17, and 12.21. This release fixes 4 security vulnerabilities and over
35 bugs reported over the last several months.
Also add XML back as an active default option due to popular demand. [1]
Clean up the ports a bit.
PR: 269115 [1]
Release notes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
Security: a03636f4-a29f-11ef-af48-6cc21735f730
Security: 12e3feab-a29f-11ef-af48-6cc21735f730
Security: a61ef21b-a29e-11ef-af48-6cc21735f730
Security: 3831292b-a29d-11ef-af48-6cc21735f730
