The CFP is now open & will close on Feb 9, 2025! The 4th annual event called POSETTE: An Event for Postgres will happen Jun 10-12, 2025 and the Call for Speakers is now open—unt ...

PGConf.dev 2025]( (May 13-16, 2025, Montreal, CA), aka [PostgreSQL Development Conference 2025]( is an event where users, developers, and community ...

We're pleased to announce that we published the schedule of the PGDay/MED 2024 taking place in Naples, Italy, on December ...

This release contains a few fixes from 17.1. For information about new features in major release 17, see Section E.3.

PostgreSQL provides various lock modes to control concurrent access to data in tables. These modes can be used for application-controlled locking in situations where MVCC does not give the desired ...

This module implements the hstore data type for storing sets of key/value pairs within a single PostgreSQL value. This can be useful in various scenarios, such as rows with many attributes that are ...

pg_upgrade (formerly called pg_migrator) allows data stored in PostgreSQL data files to be upgraded to a later PostgreSQL major version without the data dump/restore ...

CREATE FUNCTION defines a new function. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION will either create a new function, or replace an existing definition. To be able to define a function, the user must have the USAGE ...

Commercial support is available from many different companies providing professional services to the PostgreSQL community.

The first time a user-defined function in a particular loadable object file is called in a session, the dynamic loader loads that object file into memory so that the function can be called. The CREATE ...

RETURN with an expression terminates the function and returns the value of expression to the caller. This form is used for PL/pgSQL functions that do not return a set. In a function that returns a ...

If you have pattern matching needs that go beyond this, consider writing a user-defined function in Perl or Tcl. While most regular-expression searches can be executed very quickly, regular ...