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Pig v1.8.1 is a safety, correctness, and maintenance release on top of v1.8.0. It hardens command initialization, privileged log access, repository and build workflows, release integrity, and structured-output redaction. It also refreshes the …

Decision date: 2026-08-14 Status: Implemented and released in pig v1.8.0. Current reference: pig sty boot Scope: Preparing a Pigsty controller and its package sources; not deploying a database cluster. Decision pig sty boot should be one native, …

Pig v1.8.0 makes Pigsty controller setup native. The two core setup commands, pig sty boot and pig sty conf, are now failure-aware Go workflows instead of wrappers around the legacy bootstrap and configure shell scripts. The release keeps the public …

Decision date: 2026-08-13 Status: Pre-implementation proposal; security mechanism, overlay scope, packaging, and path ADRs remain open. Current reference: pig ext and pig repo describe the v1 Catalog behavior. Scope: A candidate PIG 2.0 publication …

Decision date: 2026-08-13 Status: Proposal for owner review; it is not implemented and is not a PIG 2.0 release commitment. Current reference: PIG documentation and the current v1.8.1 release Scope: Candidate product boundaries and verification …

Pig v1.7.0 is a repository compatibility and catalog release on top of v1.6.2. It makes China-mirror selection explicit, preserves native DNF module filtering by default, restores a streamlined EL7 repository catalog, and grows the bundled extension …

Today, let’s talk about Postpartum Care for Sows—a Chinese meme for the sort of absurdly specialized practical topic nobody expects to discuss. This time, the sow in question is my new open-source project, SOW. When you maintain a PostgreSQL …

Pig v1.6.2 is a feature and catalog release on top of v1.6.1. It grows the packaged extension catalog from 562 to 572, adds native Grafana dashboard schema v2 support, and improves local repository generation. The embedded Pigsty version remains …

I was updating the Redis module in Pigsty recently, adding Valkey as an alternative engine, and hit an upstream bug while packaging it. If your Valkey runs on Debian or Ubuntu, and one day the disk fills up or the data directory permissions go wrong …

pig v1.6.1 is a maintenance release on top of v1.6.0. It carries no new commands and no flag changes — the point of the release is the catalog that ships inside the binary. What changed Extension catalog refreshed. The embedded extension.csv is …

Pig v1.6.0 is a major release: pig pt becomes a transparent patronictl launcher, the new root-level pig inventory command group brings lossless editing and validation of pigsty.yml (with an experimental PostgreSQL CMDB bridge), pig sty grafana adds …

Decision date: 2026-07-21 Status: Implemented and released in pig v1.6.0. Current reference: pig pt Scope: Patronictl-backed cluster commands plus PIG-owned configuration selection, settings sugar, service, status, and log helpers. Decision pig pt …

Decision date: 2026-07-18 Status: Implemented in v1.6.0; Grafana dashboard schema v2 support followed in v1.6.2. Current reference: pig sty grafana Scope: Pigsty-owned dashboard folders, dashboards, and UI preferences; not general Grafana …

Decision date: 2026-07-18 Status: The greenfield revision store is superseded; the thin existing-CMDB adapter is implemented and remains experimental. Current reference: pig inventory cmdb Scope: Exchanging declarations with Pigsty’s existing CMDB, …

Decision date: 2026-07-18 Status: Implemented and released in pig v1.6.0. Current reference: pig inventory Scope: Static Pigsty Inventory inspection, scoped editing, validation, comparison, and safe writes. Decision PIG treats pigsty.yml as both a …

Pig v1.5.1 updates PG kernel forks to the latest package names. Highlights Add mirror/proxy mode to repo, build, sty, update, and extension update workflows; pig build rust -m also configures Cargo mirror settings with rsproxy.cn. Add explicit …

Six months ago, on January 8, 2026, I wrote Git for Data: Instant PostgreSQL Database and Instance Cloning, introducing a new feature in PostgreSQL 18 and Pigsty v4.0: instant database cloning. With filesystem copy-on-write (CoW) and PostgreSQL 18’s …

People often ask me: what exactly is Pigsty? My usual answer is: a PostgreSQL distribution. The next question is usually: what, then, is a “PostgreSQL distribution”? That is a good question. And the best place to begin is not databases, but operating …

Pig v1.5.0 is a PostgreSQL operations release for day-to-day DBA work. It adds local database clone/fork workflows, clarifies the boundaries between pg, pt, pb, and pitr, and tightens preview, confirmation, and structured-output behavior for …

Decision date: 2026-07-02 Status: Released for pg, pb, pt, and pitr by v1.5.0; the 2026-08-29 do and build proxy refinements were released in v1.8.1. Current reference: pig pg, pig pb, pig pitr, pig do, and pig build Scope: PIG-owned operational …

Decision date: 2026-06-30 Status: Active repository architecture. Current reference: pig command overview and the source repository Scope: Go source ownership and command registration, not the public command taxonomy itself. Decision The cmd package …

Refresh the built-in extension catalog from 510 to 524 available extensions. This adds 14 extensions: pg_stl, pgmnemo, psql_bm25s, pg_orca, pg_sorted_heap, graph, pgrdf, fsm_core, jsonschema, pg_durable, pg_mockable, pg_uuid_v8, pg_stat_backtrace, …

Slide deck: Extensions for Everyone Part I. Introduction 0. Extensions for Everyone 00. Extensions for Everyone Hi everyone. This talk is called Extensions for Everyone. It is about delivering PostgreSQL extensions, and about how a shared delivery …

510 extensions, 3 new extensions, 20 updated. Ubuntu 26.04 resolute support, drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 focal. Bump el9.aarch64 ad hoc patroni to 4.1.2. Bump pgEdge to PostgreSQL 18. Calibrate upstream repo definition. Checksums Copy all …

Refresh the extension catalog and increase the total available extensions to 510, with version bumps such as timescaledb 2.26.3, decoderbufs 3.5.0, pgclone 4.0.0, and nominatim_fdw 1.3. Bump the default pgrx version from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 and align …

Bump total available extensions to 504. Checksums Copy all checksums Download asset FileChecksum pig-1.3.4-1.aarch64.rpm Linuxarm64SHA-256 dc78def9…05fd pig-1.3.4-1.x86_64.rpm Linuxamd64SHA-256 998fcbda…e696 pig-v1.3.4.darwin-amd64.tar.gz …

A GitHub issue turned into an extension sprint. 32 new additions say a lot about where PostgreSQL is headed. It Started with a Chemistry Extension Two days ago, a user opened a GitHub issue: he was using RDKit, the de facto standard library in …

Refresh extension catalog and increase total available extensions to 481. Bump Go toolchain from 1.26.0 to 1.26.2. Extension Updates Extension Old New Notes timescaledb 2.25.2 2.26.2 available, PG15-18 pg_background 1.8 1.9.2 DEB only, PG14-18 …

Routine maintenance release. Refresh a batch of extension version metadata and catalog entries. Add the pig pg tune subcommand to generate PostgreSQL tuning parameters from hardware resources and workload profiles. Add pdu and pgdog source package …

Decision date: 2026-03-21 Status: Implemented on 2026-03-23 and released in pig v1.3.2. Current reference: pig pg tune Scope: A deterministic first-pass configuration for one local PostgreSQL instance, not a complete production design service. …

Directory: Chinese · English Extensions are the soul of PostgreSQL. Without them, PostgreSQL is just a very good relational database. With them, it becomes a platform that can swallow entire categories of database workloads. The problem is that the …

Today I put Claude Code to work on another genuinely useful project: a completely new PostgreSQL extension catalog. You can find it at pigsty.io/ext. This is already the catalog’s fifth incarnation. After a long detour, it has returned to the Hugo + …

This is a small maintenance release from v1.3.0 to v1.3.1. PG13 install/build support is removed because PGDG upstream has dropped PG13 archive/distribution. Active supported PostgreSQL major versions are now 14-18. Refresh extension catalog (461 -> …

This release is a focused engineering update from v1.2.0 to v1.3.0: 15 commits, 74 files changed, +1184 / -236 LOC. It hardens the pig build pipeline and extends catalog/alias coverage, increasing total extensions from 451 to 461. Highlights Build …

Extension catalog and alias resolution enhancements: Introduce dynamic PG category alias resolution by PG major version. Add OS-level alias overrides (ansible/bootstrap) and converge unknown distro fallback to PGDG-only. Add aliases such as …

Decision date: 2026-02-18; the production contract was finalized on 2026-08-14. Status: Implemented and released in pig v1.8.0. Current reference: pig sty conf Scope: Generating one validated static Inventory from a trusted Pigsty template; not …

Fixes Preserve symlink semantics during build-tree migration and support cross-device moves. Handle a PostgreSQL log directory configured as the filesystem root without resolving files outside the intended directory. Allow pig repo rm to remove …

This version is a planned architecture-level upgrade from v1.0.0 to v1.1.0 (79 commits, 193 files changed), with the core goal of moving pig from a “human-friendly CLI” to an “agent-native orchestratable CLI”. Seven new extensions are added, bringing …

Decision date: 2026-02-12 Status: Implemented in pig v1.1.0 and refined by later command-layer work. Current reference: pig command overview Scope: PIG-owned commands and their machine-consumption contract; opaque passthrough commands keep their …

This release introduces three major new subcommand groups (pig pg, pig pt, pig pb) for managing PostgreSQL, Patroni, and pgBackRest, along with an orchestrated PITR command and enhanced extension availability display. New Commands pig pg - PostgreSQL …

Changes Rename pig sty install to pig sty deploy so the command name reflects that it runs the Pigsty deployment playbook. Add the -g, -p, and -o options to pig sty conf, aligning it with the configure script available in this release. Keep llvmjit …

Fix Restore llvmjit to the pgsql-full package alias after it was removed in v0.8.0. Bump the release version to v0.8.1. Checksums Copy all checksums Download asset FileChecksum pig-0.8.1-1.aarch64.rpm Linuxarm64SHA-256 fd9291b1…258c …

Extension Updates Total extensions reached 440 New extension: pg_ai_query 0.1.1 New extension: pg_textsearch 0.1.0 New extension: pg_clickhouse 0.1.0 pg_biscuit upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0.1 (switched to new repo, renamed to biscuit) pg_search upgraded …

Extension Updates timescaledb 2.23.1 -> 2.24.0 pg_search 0.20.0 -> 0.20.3 convert 0.0.4 -> 0.0.5 pglinter 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1 pgdd 0.6.0 -> 0.6.1 pg_session_jwt 0.3.3 -> 0.4.0 pg_anon 2.4.1 -> 2.5.1 pg_enigma 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0 wrappers 0.5.6 -> 0.5.7 …

Update extension metadata: pg_search, pgmq, pg_stat_monitor Update pgdg repo URL, the extras now move to parent directory Bump ivorysql to 5.0 (compatible with PG 18.0) Bump Percona Postgres TDE Kernel to 18.1 Checksums Copy all checksums Download …

Hi, I’m Feng Ruohang, author of Pigsty and an independent open-source contributor. Let’s talk about how to build a PostgreSQL distribution that is rooted in China and useful to the whole world. The question isn’t whether PG will win—it already has. …

Add new command: pig repo reload to update repo metadata Fix EL PGDG sysupdate aarch64 repo issue (now aarch64 repo ready) Fix EL10.aarch64 PGDG repo renaming issue Update extension versions Bump Pigsty version to 3.7.0 Checksums Copy all checksums …

Yesterday’s post “PG ‘Export Controls’ and Supply-Chain Trust” drew a comment from someone claiming to be an admin at a university mirror site (Tsinghua TUNA): “As a university mirror admin, calling us ‘lying flat’ or ‘irresponsible’ is unfair and …

Extension list update, + 6 new extensions, 437 total Add PGDG EL10 Sysupdate repo Add LLVM APT repo Use local extension.csv catalog in pig build sub command Updated extensions: vchord pg_later pgvectorscale pglite_fusion pgx_ulid pg_search citus …

WeChat link PostgreSQL’s killer feature is extensibility. PostGIS, pgvector, pg_duckdb, pg_search—extensions turn PG into GIS engine, vector DB, analytics warehouse, search cluster. But compiling and shipping them reliably across distros is a …

The brand-new website: /ext/ Remove unnecessary sudo usage, now can be used inside docker Allow using pg18, pg17 arg format in pig ext link command Add environment var PIG_NO_SUDO to force not using sudo RPM Changelog: Add PG 18 support to almost …

Add support for Debian 13 and EL 10 distributions Massive extension updates to the latest versions with PostgreSQL 18 support Almost all Rust extensions now support PG 18 via pgrx 0.16.1 pig build command overhaul pig build pkg <pkg> will now …

Use official PG 18 repo instead of testing repo Add v prefix when specifying pigsty version string Improved network connectivity check Checksums Copy all checksums Download asset FileChecksum pig_0.6.2-1_amd64.deb Linuxamd64MD5 01f5b7dc…8347 …

I was recently chatting with my friend Yurii, the founder of Omnigres. He wants to hire a PostgreSQL packaging expert and has even coined a title for the role: EEE, or Extension Ecosystem Engineer. It is an interesting idea. The job description is …

This month saw a high-profile “open source supply cut” incident — KubeSphere deleting images and running away, but there’s another slightly more subtle “chokepoint case” I mentioned last month — “Chokepoint: PGDG Cuts Mirror Sync Channels”. This …

Add el10 and debian 13 trixie support stub Dedicated website: /docs/pig/ Rebuild with go 1.25 and CI/CD pipeline Use PIGSTY PGDG mirror in mainland China Remove unused pgdg-el10fix repo Use Pigsty WiltonDB mirror Add EL 10 dedicated epel repo pig …

New extension catalog: https://ext.pgsty.com New subcommand: pig install to simplify pig ext install Add new kernel support: percona with pg_tde Add new package: Google GenAI MCP toolbox for databases Add new repo: percona repo and clickhouse repo …

Recently, while building Pigsty offline packages, I discovered that the PostgreSQL version installed during local testing wasn’t quite right - 17.4 was behind the latest 17.5 by one minor version. Also, when testing on EL10, I found several …

Update the extension list to 422 New extension: pgactive from AWS Bump timescaledb to 2.20.3 Bump citus to 13.1.0 Bump vchord to 0.4.3 Bug fix pgvectorscale debian/ubuntu pg17 failure Bump kubernetes repo to 1.33 Bump default pigsty version to 3.5.0 …

Update the extension list to 421 Add openhalo/orioledb support for Debian / Ubuntu pgdd 0.6.0 (pgrx 0.14.1) convert 0.0.4 (pgrx 0.14.1) pg_idkit 0.3.0 (pgrx 0.14.1) pg_tokenizer.rs 0.1.0 (pgrx 0.13.1) pg_render 0.1.2 (pgrx 0.12.8) pgx_ulid 0.2.0 …