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Jun 30 - Jul 06, 2025

Contents / Optimization

• pgassistant (⭐1.4k) - A DB optimization dashboard for PostgreSQL with LLM and pgTune integration.

Jun 09 - Jun 15, 2025

Contents / High-Availability

• pgrwl (⭐47) - Stream write-ahead logs (WAL) from a PostgreSQL server in real time. A drop-in, container-friendly alternative to pg_receivewal.

Contents / Backups

• pg-backups-to-s3 (⭐16) - Docker-first solution on top of pg_dump with support for environment-based configuration for scheduled PostgreSQL backups with optional compression, GPG encryption, webhooks, automatic upload to Amazon S3.

Resources / Blogs

• Digoal's PostgreSQL and Technical blog(Chinese Language) (⭐8.3k)

May 26 - Jun 01, 2025

Contents / CLI

• pdot - Visualize and explore database structures in your shell, from high-context views of the foreign key graph to trigger cascades, role inheritance and permissions, and many more

Contents / Docker images

• paradedb/paradedb - ParadeDB is Postgres for Search and Analytics. Based on the Bitnami Postgres container with pg_search and pg_analytics Postgres extensions.

May 12 - May 18, 2025

Contents / Backups

• pgbackweb (⭐1.7k) - A Complete Docker-based Postgres backup and maintenance tool with Web UI.

Contents / Server

• Apache Cloudberry (⭐986) - And MPP PostgreSQL fork. Open source alternative to Greenplum Database.

Contents / Extensions

• pgcat (⭐384) - Enhanced PostgreSQL logical replication

Contents / Work Queues

• BeanQueue (⭐17) - A Python work queue framework based on SKIP LOCKED, LISTEN and NOTIFY

• pgmq (⭐3.3k) - A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres.

• river (⭐4.2k) - A high-performance job processing system for Go and Postgres.

Contents / Optimization

• aqo (⭐465) - Adaptive query optimization for PostgreSQL.

Contents / Utilities

• NServiceBus.Transport.PostgreSql (⭐43) - The NServiceBus.Transport.PostgreSql library allows .NET developers to use a PostgreSQL database as a message broker. (Commerical Software)

• planter (⭐553) - Generate PlantUML ER diagram textual description from PostgreSQL tables

May 05 - May 11, 2025

Contents / High-Availability

• autobase (⭐2.7k) - Autobase for PostgreSQL® is an open-source DBaaS that automates the deployment and management of highly available PostgreSQL clusters.

• pg_auto_failover (⭐1.2k) - Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability.

Contents / Backups

• pgbackup-sidecar (⭐4) - pgbackup-sidecar is a lightweight Docker sidecar container designed to automate regular backups of a PostgreSQL database using pg_dump, cron, and bash scripts while also sending output to a webhook.

Contents / GUI

• DBConvert Streams - A cloud-native platform for real-time data migration and CDC replication between PostgreSQL and MySQL databases across various cloud environments. (Commercial Software).

• DbVisualizer - Cross-platform database client for developers, DBAs, and analysts (Commercial Software).

• Luna Modeler - Cross-platform desktop data modeling tool (Commercial Software).

• Mathesar - Web application providing an intuitive user experience to databases.

• pgMagic🪄 - Chat to Postgres in Natural Language (Commercial Software).

• Redash (⭐27k) - Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data.

• Teable (⭐19k) - A Super fast, Real-time, Professional, Developer friendly, No code database.

• WebDB – Efficient Database IDE.

Contents / Distributions

• Pigsty (⭐4k) - Battery-Included Open-Source Distribution for PostgreSQL with ultimate observability & Database-as-Code toolbox for developers.

Contents / CLI

• pg-schema-diff (⭐517) - CLI (and Golang library) for diffing Postgres schemas and generating SQL migrations with minimal locking.

Contents / Server

• FerretDB - A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative on top of PostgreSQL.

Contents / Security

• Acra (⭐1.4k) - SQL database security suite: proxy for data protection with transparent "on the fly" data encryption, SQL firewall (SQL injections prevention), intrusion detection system.

Contents / Monitoring

• coroot (⭐6.6k) - Coroot is an open-source APM & Observability tool, a DataDog and NewRelic alternative. Powered by eBPF for rapid insights into system performance.

• Datadog - SaaS monitoring that collects and visualizes metrics, queries, and explain plans, and sends alerts when problems are encountered (Commercial Software).

• pg_exporter (⭐248) - Fully customizable Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL & Pgbouncer with fine-grained execution control.

• postgres_exporter (⭐3.1k) - Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics.

Contents / Extensions

• AGE (⭐3.6k) - Adds fully-functional graph database support including Cypher queries.

• OrioleDB - The cloud-native storage engine for PostgreSQL. OrioleDB is a PostgreSQL extension that combines the advantages of both on-disk and in-memory engines.

• pg_analytics (⭐522) - pg_analytics is an extension that accelerates analytical query processing inside Postgres to a performance level comparable to dedicated OLAP databases.

• pg_barcode (⭐1) - PostgreSQL SVG QRcode & Datamatrix generator.

• pg_stat_monitor (⭐515) - Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL.

• pg_squeeze (⭐561) - An extension for automatic bloat cleanup with minimal locking.

• ParadeDB (⭐7.2k) - Postgres for Search and Analytics

Contents / Optimization

• EverSQL - Automated query optimization tool, monitoring and analysis tool, indexing recommendation tool. (Commercial Software)

• PEV2 (⭐3k) - Online Postgres Explain Visualizer.

Contents / Utilities

• bemi (⭐356) - Automatic data change tracking for PostgreSQL

• flyway - Schema migration tool for Postgres and others.

• GatewayD (⭐262) - Cloud-native database gateway and framework for building data-driven applications. Like API gateways, for databases.

• migra (⭐3k) - Like diff but for Postgres schemas.

• pg-spot-operator (⭐56) - A daemon to run stateful Postgres on cheap AWS Spot VMs

• pg_timetable (⭐1.2k) - Advanced job scheduler for PostgreSQL.

• Pyrseas (⭐403) - Postgres database schema versioning.

• pgroll (⭐5.1k) - Zero-downtime, reversible, schema migrations for Postgres

• RegreSQL (⭐283) - Tool to build, maintain and execute a regression testing suite for SQL queries.

Contents / Language bindings

• R: RPostgres (⭐338), RPostgreSQL (⭐66)

• TypeScript: zapatos (⭐1.4k)

• Zig: pg.zig (⭐381)

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• ScaleGrid PostgreSQL DBaaS - Fully managed PostgreSQL hosting with high availability, dedicated servers, and superuser control on the #1 multi-cloud Amazon RDS alternative.

• Nile - Fully managed PostgreSQL . Nile decouples storage from compute and virtualizes tenants to ship multi-tenant AI applications fast, safe, and with limitless scale. Free tier provides unlimited databases.

Contents / Kubernetes

• Crunchy Operator (⭐4.2k) - Production PostgreSQL for Kubernetes, from high availability Postgres clusters to full-scale database-as-a-service.

• Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres for Kubernetes - Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL on OpenShift Container Platform (Commercial Software).

• Kubegres Operator (⭐1.3k) - Kubegres is a Kubernetes operator allowing to deploy one or many clusters of PostgreSql instances and manage databases replication, failover and backup.

• StackGres Operator (⭐1.2k) - Full Stack PostgreSQL on Kubernetes.

• Zalando Operator (⭐4.8k) - Creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes.

• CloudNativePG operator (⭐6.2k) - A comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments.

• KubeDB operator - Run Production-Grade Databases on Kubernetes (Commercial Software).

Resources / Tutorials

• Operations cheat sheet - Operations cheat sheet from PostgreSQL Wiki.

• pagila (⭐64) - Pagila, Postgres Sample Database

Resources / Blogs

• Percona's PostgreSQL blog posts

Resources / Books

• The Internals of PostgreSQL - A free e-book by Hironobu Suzuki

• PostgreSQL 14 Internals - A free e-book by Egor Rogov

Resources / Newsletters

• pgMustard newsletter - Monthly newsletter that contains Postgres performance articles and videos.

Resources / Podcasts

• PostgresFM - Weekly discussions about Postgres topics.

• Path to Citus Con - Monthly interviews with people in the Postgres world.

Resources / Videos

• PostgresTV Youtube channel - Postgres talks, hacking sessions, interviews, and podcast episodes

Resources / Community

• Slack - Slack workspace for Postgres with over 20k members

• Discord - A Discord server for Postgres with over 6k members

Resources / External lists

• Wikipedia admin tools list - Comparison of database administration tools on Wikipedia

• PostgreSQL Wiki GUI tools list - Community Guide to PostgreSQL GUI Tools

• PostgreSQL Wiki Foreign Data Wrappers list - Foreign data wrappers

Apr 28 - May 04, 2025

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• OVHcloud Cloud Databases - Highly available, scalable, and secured PostgreSQL. Daily backups with point-in-time recovery, no lock-in, free incoming and outgoing traffic.

Sep 16 - Sep 22, 2024

Contents / Utilities

• pgspot (⭐110) - Spot vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL extension scripts.

Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2024

Resources / Documentation

• pgPedia - An encyclopedia of things related to postgreSQL.

May 13 - May 19, 2024

Contents / Extensions

• pg_lakehouse (⭐7.2k) - pg_lakehouse is an extension that transforms Postgres into an analytical query engine over object stores like AWS S3/GCS and table formats like Delta Lake/Iceberg.

Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2024

Contents / Extensions

• pg_search (⭐7.2k) - pg_search is a PostgreSQL extension that enables full-text search over SQL tables using the BM25 algorithm, the state-of-the-art ranking function for full-text search.

Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2024

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Supabase - Fully managed Postgres with read replicas, point-in-time-recovery, support packages, browser based GUI, and a generous free tier.

Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2024

Contents / Optimization

• Metis - Metis provides observability and performance tuning for SQL databases including PostgreSQL. (Commercial Software)

Resources / Blogs

• Metis Blog - Set of posts on PostgreSQL, SQL databases, performance, and tuning.

Resources / Books

• PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2023

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Neon - Fully managed serverless PostgreSQL. Neon separates storage and compute to offer modern developer features such as serverless, branching, bottomless storage, and more.

May 29 - Jun 04, 2023

Contents / CLI

• atlas (⭐7k) - Atlas is a tool for managing and migrating database schemas using modern DevOps principles.

Contents / Server

• YugabyteDB - Open Source Distributed SQL using a fork of PostgreSQL on top of distributed storage and transaction

Contents / Extensions

• PostgresML - Machine learning and AI inside your database, including vectors, LLMs, and classic ML. Train, predict and manage the entire lifecycle of machine learning models using only SQL.

Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2023

Resources / Roadmaps

• PostgreSQL Roadmap - A roadmap providing step wise guide to PostgreSQL.

Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Render Managed PostgreSQL - Secure, reliable, and completely hands-off managed PostgreSQL. Encryption at rest, automated backups, and expandable SSD storage included in all plans. Plans start at $7 per month for 256MB RAM and 1GB storage (free for first 90 days).

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2022

Contents / Backups

• wal-e (⭐3.5k) (obsolete) - Simple Continuous Archiving for PostgreSQL to S3, Azure, or Swift by Heroku.

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2022

Resources / Articles

• Tricking Postgres into using an insane – but 200x faster – query plan

Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2021

Contents / Utilities

• pgMonitor (⭐657) - Postgres metrics collection and visualization that can be deployed to bare metal, virtual machines, or Kubernetes.

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Crunchy Bridge - Fully managed Postgres from the Postgres experts. Available across all major cloud providers: Amazon AWS, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure. No lock-in with full super-user support.

Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2021

Contents / GUI

• Beekeeper Studio - Free and open source SQL client with a modern UI and great Postgres support. Cross platform.

Jul 12 - Jul 18, 2021

Contents / GUI

• Chartbrew - Create live dashboards, charts, and client reports from PostgreSQL data. Features a query tool that works with SQL.

Jun 28 - Jul 04, 2021

Contents / GUI

• DbGate - The Smartest (no)SQL Database Client

Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2021

Contents / GUI

• Count - Web-based analytics platform with a notebook interface which connects to PostgreSQL (Commercial Software).

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Scaleway Managed Database - Fully managed PostgreSQL databases with HA, scaling, and automated backups, hosted in the EU. Starting at €10 per month.

Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020

Resources / Tutorials

• PostgreSQL Primer for Busy People - A collection of the most common commands used in PostgreSQL

Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020

Contents / Monitoring

• dexter (⭐2k) - The automatic indexer for Postgres. Detects slow queries and creates indexes if configured to do so.

Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020

Contents / Extensions

• pg_cron (⭐3.4k) - Run periodic jobs in PostgreSQL.

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL - Fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer your PostgreSQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform.

Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2020

Contents / Extensions

• PGAudit - The PostgreSQL Audit Extension (or pgaudit) provides detailed session and/or object audit logging via the standard logging facility provided by PostgreSQL.

Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2020

Contents / GUI

• DataRow - Cross-platform SQL Client for Amazon Redshift: Simple, Effortless, Extensible.

• PostgresCompare - Cross-platform database comparison and deployment tool (Commercial Software).

May 25 - May 31, 2020

Contents / High-Availability

• Slony-I - "Master to multiple slaves" replication system with cascading and failover.

Contents / Utilities

• pg_docs_bot (⭐18) - Browser extension to redirect PostgreSQL docs links to the current version.

• pg-differ (⭐38) - Tool for easy initialization / updating of the structure of PostgreSQL tables, migration alternative (Node.js).

Resources / Blogs

• Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL blog

May 04 - May 10, 2020

Contents / Utilities

• ScaffoldHub.io - Generate fullstack PostgreSQL apps with Angular, Vue or React (Commercial Software).

Apr 27 - May 03, 2020

Contents / Backups

• wal-g (⭐3.6k) - The successor of WAL-E rewritten in Go. Currently supports cloud object storage services by AWS (S3), Google Cloud (GCS), Azure, as well as OpenStack Swift, MinIO, and file system storages. Supports block-level incremental backups, offloading backup tasks to a standby server, provides parallelization and throttling options. In addition to Postgres, WAL-G can be used for MySQL and MongoDB databases.

Contents / CLI

• pgsh (⭐588) - Branch your PostgreSQL Database like Git

• schemaspy (⭐3.4k) - SchemaSpy is a JAVA JDBC-compliant tool for generating your database to HTML documentation, including Entity Relationship diagrams

Contents / Monitoring

• PMM (⭐792) - Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a Free and Open Source platform for monitoring and managing PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.

• pgmetrics - pgmetrics is an open-source, zero-dependency, single-binary tool that can collect a lot of information and statistics from a running PostgreSQL server and display it in easy-to-read text format or export it as JSON and CSV for scripting.

• okmeter.io - Commercial SaaS agent-based monitoring with a very detailed PostgreSQL plugin. It automatically gathers 100s of stats, displays dashboards on every aspect and sends alerts when something goes wrong (Commercial Software).

Contents / Extensions

• PipelineDB - A PostgreSQL extension that runs SQL queries continuously on streams, incrementally storing results in tables.

Contents / Optimization

• pg_flame (⭐1.6k) - A flamegraph generator for query plans.

• TimescaleDB Tune (⭐472) - a program for tuning a TimescaleDB database to perform its best based on the host's resources such as memory and number of CPUs.

Contents / Utilities

• Hasura GraphQL Engine (⭐32k) - Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

• pg_activity (⭐2.6k) - top like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring.

• PgBouncer - Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL.

• pgpool-II - Middleware that provides connection pooling, replication, load balancing and limiting exceeding connections.

Contents / Language bindings

• Go: pq (⭐9.5k), pgx (⭐12k), go-pg (⭐5.7k)

• Node: node-postgres (⭐13k), pg-promise (⭐3.5k), pogi (⭐140), slonik (⭐4.8k), postgres (⭐8.1k)

• Python: psycopg2, asyncpg, pg8000

• Ruby: pg (⭐821)

Resources / Articles

• the ultimate postgres vs mysql blog post

• Superfast CSV imports using PostgreSQL's COPY command

Resources / Videos

• Postgres Conference Youtube channel - Conference videos

Resources / Community

• Mailing lists - Official mailing lists for Postgres for support, outreach, and more. One of the primary channels of communication in the Postgres community.

• Reddit - A reddit community for PostgreSQL users with over 12000 users

• Telegram - Several groups for PostgreSQL in different languages: Russian >4200 people, Brazilian Portuguese >2300 people, Indonesian ~1000 people, English >750 people

• #postgresql on Freenode - The most popular IRC channel about Postgres on Freenode with over 1000 users

Nov 25 - Dec 01, 2019

Contents / Extensions

• PGroonga - PGroonga provides a new index access method that uses Groonga allowing super fast full text search feature against all languages.

Sep 09 - Sep 15, 2019

Contents / GUI

• TablePlus - Native App which let you edit database and structure. High-end security ensured (Commercial Software).

Contents / Optimization

• pgMustard - A modern user interface for EXPLAIN, that also provides performance tips (Commercial Software).

Contents / Utilities

• postgres-checkup - a new-generation diagnostics tool that allows users to collect deep analysis of the health of a Postgres database.

Resources / Videos

• Scaling Postgres - Postgres video blog series by Creston Jamison

Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2019

Contents / Utilities

• pg_insights (⭐303) - Convenient SQL for monitoring Postgres database health.

May 13 - May 19, 2019

Contents / Extensions

• Citus (⭐12k) - Scalable PostgreSQL cluster for real-time workloads.

Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019

Contents / Extensions

• TimescaleDB - Open-source time-series database fully compatible with Postgres, distributed as extension

Resources / Tutorials

• pg-utils (⭐1.1k) - Useful DBA tools by Data Egret

Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2019

Contents / PaaS (PostgreSQL as a Service)

• Aiven PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL as a service in AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud and UpCloud; plans range from $19/month single node instances to large highly-available setups, free trial for two weeks.

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. It provides builtin HA, elastic scaling and native integration with Azure ecosystem.

• Database Labs - Get a production-ready cloud PostgreSQL server in minutes, from $20 a month Backups, monitoring, patches, and 24/7 tech support all included.

• DigitalOcean Managed Databases - Fully managed PostgreSQL databases. No free plan. Starting at $15/mo. Daily backups with point-in-time recovery. Standby nodes with auto-failover.

• Heroku Postgres - Plans from free to huge, operated by PostgreSQL experts. Does not require running your app on Heroku. Free plan includes 10,000 rows, 20 connections, up to two backups, and has PostGIS support.

Contents / Docker images

• citusdata/citus - Citus official images with citus extensions. Based on the official Postgres container.

• mdillon/postgis - PostGIS 2.3 on Postgres 9. Based on the official Postgres container.

• postgres - Official postgres container (from Docker)

Resources / Documentation

• Wiki - user documentation, how-tos, and tips 'n' tricks

Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2019

Contents / Extensions

• pgRouting (⭐1.3k) - pgRouting extends the PostGIS/PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality.

Contents / Language bindings

• Haskell: postgresql-simple

Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019

Contents / Language bindings

• Clojure: clj-postgresql (⭐161)

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Contents / Server

• AgensGraph - Powerful graph database based on the PostgreSQL.

Contents / Utilities

• PGXN client (⭐149) - Command line tool to interact with the PostgreSQL Extension Network

Dec 03 - Dec 09, 2018

Contents / High-Availability

• pglookout (⭐184) - Replication monitoring and failover daemon.

Contents / Backups

• Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL by 2ndQuadrant.

• pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore.

• pghoard (⭐1.3k) - Backup and restore tool for cloud object stores (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack Swift).

Contents / GUI

• DBeaver - Universal Database Manager with excellent support for PostgreSQL.

Contents / Distributions

• Postgres.app - The Easiest Way to Get Started with PostgreSQL on macOS.

Contents / Extensions

• pg_partman (⭐2.3k) - Partition management extension for PostgreSQL.

• pgTAP - Database testing framework for Postgres

Contents / Optimization

• PoWA - PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer gathers performance stats and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your PostgreSQL servers.

Contents / Utilities

• PostgREST (⭐25k) - Serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database.

• sqitch (⭐3k) - Tool for managing versioned schema deployment

Contents / Language bindings

• Perl: DBD-Pg

Resources / Blogs

• Andrew Dunstan's PostgreSQL and Technical blog

• Michael Paquier's blog

• Robert Haas' blog

Resources / Videos

• Citus Data Youtube channel - Citus related videos

• EnterpriseDB Youtube channel - EnterpriseDB related videos

Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2018

Contents / GUI

• Numeracy - Fast SQL editor with charts and dashboards for PostgreSQL (Commercial Software).

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018

Contents / GUI

• pgModeler - pgModeler is an open-source PostgreSQL Database Modeler.

Contents / Utilities

• pgbadger (⭐3.7k) - Fast PostgreSQL Log Analyzer.

• sqlcheck (⭐2.5k) - Automatically detects common SQL anti-patterns. Such anti-patterns often slow down queries. Addressing them will, therefore, help accelerate queries.

Jul 23 - Jul 29, 2018

Contents / Backups

• pg_back (⭐554) - pg_back is a simple backup script

Contents / Utilities

• pg_chameleon (⭐404) - Real time replica from MySQL to PostgreSQL with optional type override migration and migration capabilities.

• pg_bulkload - It's a high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL.

Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018

Contents / High-Availability

• PAF (⭐348) - PostgreSQL Automatic Failover: High-Availibility for Postgres, based on Pacemaker and Corosync.

Contents / Extensions

• HypoPG (⭐1.5k) - HypoPG provides hypothetical/virtual indexes feature.

Mar 26 - Apr 01, 2018

Contents / Utilities

• PostGraphile (⭐13k) - Instant GraphQL API or GraphQL schema for your PostgreSQL database

Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018

Contents / Utilities

• ldap2pg (⭐218) - Synchronize roles and privileges from YML and LDAP.

Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018

Contents / Optimization

• pg_web_stats (⭐94) - Web UI to view pg_stat_statements.

Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2017

Contents / Monitoring

• pgwatch2 (⭐1.8k) - Flexible and easy to get started PostgreSQL metrics monitor focusing on Grafana dashboards.

Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2017

Contents / GUI

• Metabase - Simple dashboards, charts and query tool for PostgreSQL.

• Valentina Studio - Cross-platform database administration tool (Free/Commercial)

Contents / Monitoring

• opm.io - Open PostgreSQL Monitoring is a free software suite designed to help you manage your PostgreSQL servers. It can gather stats, display dashboards and send warnings when something goes wrong.

Contents / Utilities

• pREST (⭐4.4k) - Serve a RESTful API from any PostgreSQL database (Golang)

Contents / Language bindings

• Lua: luapgsql (⭐115)

Resources / Tutorials

• postgresDBSamples (⭐528) - A collection of sample postgres schemas

Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2017

Contents / Extensions

• pgMemento (⭐389) - Provides an audit trail for your data inside a PostgreSQL database using triggers and server-side functions written in PL/pgSQL.

Contents / Optimization

• pgtune (⭐2.4k) - Online version of PostgreSQL configuration wizard.

• pgconfig.org (⭐88) - PostgreSQL Online Configuration Tool (also based on pgtune).

Aug 28 - Sep 03, 2017

Contents / Server

• Postgres-XL - Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster.

Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2017

Contents / GUI

• Holistics - Online cross platform database management tool and SQL query reporting GUI with strong PostgreSQL support (Commercial Software).

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2017

Contents / Utilities

• pg-formatter (⭐81) - A PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier (Node.js).

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017

Contents / GUI

• temBoard (⭐487) - Web-based PostgreSQL GUI and monitoring.

Resources / Articles

• Why use Postgres?

Resources / Newsletters

• Postgres Weekly - Weekly newsletter that contains articles, news, and repos relevant to PostgreSQL.

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2017

Contents / Language bindings

• .Net/.Net Core: Npgsql (⭐3.5k)

Apr 03 - Apr 09, 2017

Contents / Utilities

• pg_migrate (⭐32) - Manage PostgreSQL codebases and make VCS simple.

Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2017

Contents / Monitoring

• Instrumental (⭐15) - Real-time performance monitoring, including pre-made graphs for ease of setup (Commercial Software)

Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2017

Contents / Backups

• pg_probackup (⭐741) – A fork of pg_arman, improved by @PostgresPro, supports incremental backups, backups from replica, multithreaded backup and restore, and anonymous backup without archive command.

Contents / Extensions

• cyanaudit - Cyan Audit provides in-database logging of all DML activity on a column-by-column basis.

• pgxn PostgreSQL Extension Network - central distribution point for many open-source PostgreSQL extensions

• PG_Themis (⭐33) - Postgres binding as extension for crypto library Themis, providing various security services on PgSQL's side.

Contents / Utilities

• apgdiff - Compares two database dump files and creates output with DDL statements that can be used to update old database schema to new one.

• ZSON (⭐552) - PostgreSQL extension for transparent JSONB compression

Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2017

Contents / High-Availability

• SkyTools (⭐246) - Replication tools, including PgQ, a queuing system, and Londiste, a replication system a bit simpler to manage than Slony.

Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2017

Contents / Monitoring

• pgbench - Run a benchmark test on PostgreSQL.

Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2016

Resources / Blogs

• Planet PostgreSQL - Blog aggregation service for PostgreSQL.

Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2016

Contents / Utilities

• pglistend (⭐29) - A lightweight PostgresSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY daemon built on top of node-postgres.

Nov 07 - Nov 13, 2016

Contents / High-Availability

• Patroni (⭐7.4k) - Template for PostgreSQL HA with ZooKeeper or etcd.

• Stolon (⭐4.7k) - PostgreSQL HA based on Consul or etcd, with Kubernetes integration.

• repmgr (⭐1.6k) - Open-source tool suite to manage replication and failover in a cluster of PostgreSQL servers.

Contents / Backups

• OmniPITR (⭐180) - Advanced WAL File Management Tools for PostgreSQL.

Contents / GUI

• Adminer - Full-featured database management tool written in PHP.

• DataGrip - IDE with advanced tool sets and good cross-platform experience (Commercial Software).

• Datazenit - Web-based PostgreSQL GUI (Commercial Software).

• JackDB - Web-based SQL query interface (Commercial Software).

• pgAdmin - PostgreSQL Administration and Management GUI.

• pgweb (⭐8.9k) - Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go.

• phpPgAdmin (⭐825) - The Premier Web Based Administration Tool for PostgreSQL.

• Postbird (⭐1.6k) - PostgreSQL Client for macOS.

• Postico - Modern PostgreSQL Client for macOS (Commercial Software).

• PSequel - Clean and simple interface to perform common PostgreSQL tasks quickly (Commercial Software).

• SQL Tabs - Cross Platform Desktop Client for PostgreSQL written in JS.

• SQLPro for Postgres - Simple, powerful PostgreSQL manager for macOS (Commercial Software).

Contents / Monitoring

• check_pgactivity (⭐177) - check_pgactivity is designed to monitor PostgreSQL clusters from Nagios. It offers many options to measure and monitor useful performance metrics.

• Check_postgres (⭐578) - Nagios check_postgres plugin for checking status of PostgreSQL databases.

• libzbxpgsql (⭐156) - Comprehensive PostgreSQL monitoring module for Zabbix.

• Pome (⭐1.1k) - Pome stands for PostgreSQL Metrics. Pome is a PostgreSQL Metrics Dashboard to keep track of the health of your database.

• pg_view (⭐501) - Open-source command-line tool that shows global system stats, per-partition information, memory stats and other information.

Contents / Extensions

• cstore_fdw (⭐1.8k) - Columnar store for analytics with PostgreSQL.

• pglogical (⭐1.1k) - Extension that provides logical streaming replication.

• pg_paxos (⭐305) - Basic implementation of Paxos and Paxos-based table replication for a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes.

• pg_shard (⭐1.1k) - Extension to scale out real-time reads and writes.

• PGStrom - Extension to offload CPU intensive workloads to GPU.

• plpgsql_check (⭐690) - Extension that allows to check plpgsql source code.

• PostGIS - Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL.

• zomboDB (⭐4.7k) - Extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch.

Contents / Optimization

• PgHero (⭐8.5k) - PostgreSQL insights made easy.

• pgtune (⭐1.1k) - PostgreSQL configuration wizard.

Contents / Utilities

• ERAlchemy (⭐1.2k) - ERAlchemy generates Entity Relation (ER) diagram from databases.

• mysql-postgresql-converter (⭐1.3k) - Lanyrd's MySQL to PostgreSQL conversion script.

• ora2pg - Perl module to export an Oracle database schema to a PostgreSQL compatible schema.

• pganalyze - PostgreSQL Performance Monitoring (Commercial Software).

• pgCenter (⭐1.6k) - Provides convenient interface to various statistics, management task, reloading services, viewing log files and canceling or terminating database backends.

• pgclimb (⭐391) - Export data from PostgreSQL into different data formats.

• pgfutter (⭐1.3k) - Import CSV and JSON into PostgreSQL the easy way.

• PGInsight - CLI tool to easily dig deep inside your PostgreSQL database.

• pgloader (⭐5.9k) - Loads data into PostgreSQL using the COPY streaming protocol, and does so with separate threads for reading and writing data.

• pgsync (⭐3.3k) - Tool to sync PostgreSQL data to your local machine.

• postgresql-metrics (⭐596) - Tool that extracts and provides metrics for your PostgreSQL database.

• yoke (⭐1.3k) - PostgreSQL high-availability cluster with auto-failover and automated cluster recovery.

Resources / Tutorials

• Backup and recover a PostgreSQL DB using wal-e - Tutorial about setting up continuous archiving in PostgreSQL using wal-e.

• PG Casts - Free weekly PostgreSQL screencasts by Hashrocket.

• Postgres Guide - Guide designed as an aid for beginners and experienced users to find specific tips and explore tools available within PostgreSQL.

• PostgreSQL Exercises - Site to make it easy to learn PostgreSQL by doing exercises.

• tutorialspoint PostgreSQL tutorial - Very extensive collection of tutorials on PostgreSQL

Resources / Blogs

• Craig Kerstiens PostgreSQL posts - Set of posts on PostgreSQL cool features, tips and tricks.

• Database Soup - Josh Berkus' blog.

• select * from depesz; - Hubert Lubaczewski's blog.

Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2016

Contents / High-Availability

• BDR (⭐358) - BiDirectional Replication - a multimaster replication system for PostgreSQL

Contents / CLI

• psql - The built-in PostgreSQL CLI client

Contents / Utilities

• pgcmp (⭐45) - Tool to compare database schemas, with capability to accept some persistent differences

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2016

Contents / Utilities

• pgmigrate (⭐649) - CLI tool to evolve schema migrations, developed by Yandex.

Oct 03 - Oct 09, 2016

Resources / Articles

• Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way

Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2016

Contents / Backups

• pitrery - pitrery is a set of Bash scripts to manage Point In Time Recovery (PITR) backups for PostgreSQL.

Sep 05 - Sep 11, 2016

Contents / Language bindings

• Common Lisp: Postmodern (⭐409)

• Elixir: postgrex (⭐1.2k)

• Rust: rust-postgresql (⭐3.7k), pgx (⭐4.1k), wtx (⭐301)

Mar 07 - Mar 13, 2016

Contents / Language bindings

• PHP: Pomm, pecl/pq (⭐38)

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2016

Contents / Language bindings

• Java: PostgreSQL JDBC Driver, Vert.x PostgreSQL Client

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2015

Contents / CLI

• psql2csv (⭐185) - Run a query in psql and output the result as CSV

Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2015

Contents / CLI

• pgcli (⭐13k) - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting