sty on PIG

pig v1.8.0

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 catalog total at 575 packaged PostgreSQL extensions and embeds Pigsty 4.5.0.

Native `pig sty boot`

pig sty boot is now one native, failure-aware controller bootstrap transaction. It does not execute <PIGSTY_HOME>/bootstrap, and its HTTP download and archive extraction paths do not depend on curl, wget, tar, or gzip.

pig v1.6.2

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 locked at 4.5.0.

Highlights

pig sty grafana now accepts both legacy dashboard JSON and native dashboard.grafana.app/v2 Dashboard resources. Loading a v2 dashboard uses Grafana’s resource API so tabs and section variables survive the round trip; dumping preserves an existing v2 destination while new dumps keep the legacy format by default.
pig repo create now prefers sow create --pigsty --timeout 10m -- <dir> when SOW is available, requires the resulting repo_complete marker to exist as a regular file, and falls back to createrepo_c / dpkg-scanpackages on Linux.
Local repository creation now works on macOS through SOW, defaults to the current directory there, and does not require sudo. The Linux default remains /www/pigsty.
Release metadata is bumped to 1.6.2; the embedded Pigsty version stays at 4.5.0.

Extension Catalog

Packaged extensions: 562 -> 572, with no removals.
10 new extensions: pg_turbovec, pg_disorder, pg_mentat, plruby, jsonb_plruby, hstore_plruby, ltree_plruby, pg_describe, cat_tools, and pg_vault_tde.
12 version refreshes: timescaledb 2.29.1, q3c 2.0.5, pgmnemo 0.16.1, pg_search 0.25.1, citus 14.2.0, citus_columnar 14.2.0, provsql 1.12.0, plpgsql_check 2.10.4, pg_rational 0.0.3, pgbson 2.1.0, pg_readme 0.7.1, and pg_readme_test_extension 0.7.1.
Package metadata and availability matrices are refreshed. Run pig ext reload to replace the embedded release snapshot with the latest online catalog.

Compatibility Notes

No commands or global flags are removed in this release.
When SOW is installed, pig repo create now prefers it over the legacy Linux generators and checks that the completion marker exists before reporting success.
The catalog count is not a promise that every package is available on every PostgreSQL / OS / architecture combination; use pig ext avail NAME on the target host.
Package-manager and install-script upgrades use the newest version published by the configured Pigsty repository, which may lag GitHub. Use the GitHub assets when you need this exact release.

Checksums

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v1.6.2 · 2026-08-11

Compile, Validate, Then Commit: The Native sty conf Pipeline

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 arbitrary YAML transformation.

Decision

pig sty conf should behave like a small compiler: resolve one safe template, parse it, apply a bounded set of structural mutations, validate the complete candidate, and atomically commit the output only after every required stage succeeds.

Edit the Declaration, Preserve the Document: Lossless Pigsty Inventory

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 semantic declaration and a human-maintained source document. Semantic parsers determine what the Inventory means; the original bytes remain authoritative for how it is written. Scoped edits replace bounded source ranges and then reparse the complete candidate before an atomic write.

pig v1.4.2

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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, and pg_projection.
Update package metadata for 48 existing extensions, including timescaledb 2.28.0, timescaledb_toolkit 1.23.0, pg_task 2.1.29, pg_search 0.24.0, pg_clickhouse 0.3.2, pg_graphql 1.6.1, documentdb 0.112, toastinfo 1.7, wrappers 0.6.1, and pgclone 4.3.2. No extensions were removed or demoted.
Add PostgreSQL 19 beta install/build/config support. PG19 is accepted as an explicit installable major, while PostgreSQL 18 remains the stable default for auto-detection, catalog display, and latest-version aliases.
Add pg19 package aliases and PG19 category alias resolution. PG19 category aliases borrow the PostgreSQL 18 visibility template and limit beta package expansion to PGDG-origin entries.
Teach pig sty conf -v 19 to enable the beta repository module when the template supports it, and emit clear warnings when a template is not tuned for PG19 beta or cannot enable the beta repo automatically.
Fix Patroni cluster operations by passing the resolved CLUSTER_NAME to patronictl restart, reinit, switchover, and failover; pig pt list also accepts an optional cluster name.
Bump the default pgrx version for pig build pgrx from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1.
Bump release metadata to v1.4.2, refresh Go module checksums, and add focused tests for PG19 aliases/config generation plus Patroni cluster-scope behavior.

Checksums

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v1.4.2 · 2026-06-18

Use the CMDB Pigsty Already Has

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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, not designing another configuration database.

Decision

PIG must reuse the CMDB already provided by Pigsty. Its responsibility is a bounded adapter: validate a static Inventory, load declarations into the existing tables, dump the existing projection, check consistency, and switch Ansible between the static and dynamic sources safely.

A Bounded Grafana Client Instead of Dashboard Shell Scripts

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 provisioning.

Decision

PIG should manage the Grafana assets that ship with Pigsty through a bounded native HTTP client. It may inspect readiness, list managed assets, load or initialize dashboards, dump them, remove only owned dashboards, and adjust the supported language and style preferences.

PIG 2.0 Product Direction: A Proposal, Not a Release Contract

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 gates for a future PIG 2.0 / Pigsty 5.0 line.

Decision

The proposed direction makes PIG the stable onboarding front door from an empty controller to a validated, deployable Pigsty Inventory. PIG would own Catalog selection, resolution, plans, bounded execution orchestration, structured results, and redacted receipts. It would continue to delegate package transactions, configuration application, and infrastructure state to DNF/APT, Ansible, and future provider-specific tools.

Bootstrapping a Pigsty Controller as a Recoverable Transaction

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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, failure-aware controller bootstrap workflow. It resolves an explicit source before privilege elevation, prepares online or offline repositories, installs only the required controller packages, proves Ansible is usable, and performs bounded finishing checks.

pig v1.2.0

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 node/infra and babelfish/cloudberry, and refresh extension metadata to reduce package resolution ambiguity.
Plan preview for high-risk operations:
- Add pig install --plan with structured execution plan output.
- Align preview semantics for pig pitr and pgBackRest repack/expire under --plan / --dry-run.
- Add plan-flag consistency tests to keep subcommand behavior aligned.
Native sty configuration capability:

pig v1.1.1

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 repository modules whose names contain dots while retaining safe-path validation.
Accept safe relative symlinks when pig sty init extracts a Pigsty release archive.

Checksums

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v1.1.1 · 2026-02-14

pig sty

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

pig can also be used as a CLI tool for Pigsty, a batteries-included free PostgreSQL RDS solution. It brings HA, PITR, monitoring, infrastructure as code (IaC), and rich extension support to your PostgreSQL clusters.

pig sty - Init (Download), Bootstrap, Configure, and Deploy Pigsty

  pig sty init    [-mpfvd]        # install pigsty (~/pigsty by default)
  pig sty boot    [-rmpk]         # native controller bootstrap
  pig sty conf    [mode] [flags]  # native Inventory-aware configuration
  pig sty deploy                  # use pigsty to deploy everything (CAUTION!)
  pig sty get                     # download pigsty source tarball
  pig sty list                    # list available pigsty versions
  pig sty grafana <verb>          # manage grafana dashboards (native HTTP)

Examples:
  pig sty init                 # extract and init ~/pigsty
  pig sty boot                 # install ansible & other deps
  pig sty conf                 # generate pigsty.yml config file
  pig sty deploy               # run the deploy.yml playbook

Command	Description	Notes
`sty init`	Install Pigsty
`sty boot`	Bootstrap the Pigsty controller	Auto-elevates when needed
`sty conf`	Generate and validate Inventory	Native Go workflow
`sty deploy`	Run deployment playbook
`sty list`	List available Pigsty versions
`sty get`	Download Pigsty source tarball
`sty grafana`	Manage Grafana dashboards (alias `gf`)	New in v1.6.0

Since v1.8.0, pig sty boot and pig sty conf are native Go workflows. They no longer invoke Pigsty’s legacy bootstrap or configure shell scripts. Since v1.6.0, the former pig sty edit / validate / check commands moved to the root-level pig inventory command group, and the experimental pig sty dashboard was replaced by pig sty grafana.

pig do

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

pig do exposes common Pigsty administrative playbooks as explicit CLI operations. It uses the selected Pigsty home and Inventory, builds the corresponding playbook command, and returns the operation through PIG’s legacy structured-result adapter.

These commands change remote systems. Review the selected cluster, node, instance, and Inventory before execution. The command family does not provide a general --plan mode.

pig do pgsql-add  pg-test 10.10.10.12     # add one PostgreSQL instance
pig do pgsql-rm   pg-test 10.10.10.12     # remove one PostgreSQL instance
pig do pgsql-db   pg-meta app             # create or update a database
pig do pgsql-user pg-meta dbuser_app      # create or update a user
pig do node-pkg   pg-meta restic          # install a package on selected nodes
pig do redis-add  redis-meta              # initialize a Redis cluster

Command overview

Command	Purpose	Required arguments
`pgsql-add`	Add a PostgreSQL cluster or instances	cluster, optional IPs
`pgsql-rm`	Remove a PostgreSQL cluster or instances	cluster, optional IPs
`pgsql-db`	Create or update a database declaration	cluster, database
`pgsql-user`	Create or update a user declaration	cluster, user
`pgsql-ext`	Install extensions through Pigsty	cluster, optional extensions
`pgsql-hba`	Refresh PostgreSQL HBA rules	cluster
`pgsql-svc`	Refresh PostgreSQL service definitions	cluster
`pgmon-add` / `pgmon-rm`	Add or remove a remote monitoring target	cluster
`node-add` / `node-rm`	Add or remove selected nodes	one or more selectors
`node-repo`	Configure repository modules on selected nodes	optional selector and modules
`node-pkg`	Install or update packages on selected nodes	selector, optional packages
`repo-build`	Rebuild the Pigsty infrastructure repository	none
`redis-add` / `redis-rm`	Add or remove Redis clusters, nodes, or instances	selector, optional ports

Run pig do COMMAND --help for the aliases and exact examples of one operation.

pig inventory

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The pig inventory command group (alias pig inv), introduced in v1.6.0, provides lossless inspection, editing, validation, and readiness checks for the Pigsty inventory (pigsty.yml), plus an experimental cmdb subtree that exchanges the inventory with the PostgreSQL CMDB.

The lossless engine preserves YAML comments, formatting, key order, anchors, and line endings byte-for-byte; edit re-parses the whole document before writing and writes atomically — invalid YAML can never reach disk.

Inspect, edit, validate, check, and exchange Pigsty Inventory

Usage:
  pig inventory [command]

Aliases:
  inventory, inv

Available Commands:
  check       Check Inventory, controller, and opt-in target readiness
  cmdb        Exchange Inventory with Pigsty's existing PostgreSQL CMDB (experimental)
  diff        Compare declarations without emitting Inventory values
  edit        Edit Inventory or one selected YAML fragment
  list        List ordered Inventory topology and value kinds
  show        Show verbatim Inventory YAML (may contain secrets)
  status      Inspect the active Inventory source without executing it
  validate    Validate one complete static Pigsty Inventory

Command	Alias	Description
`inv status`		Inspect the active inventory source (without executing)
`inv list`	`ls`	List inventory topology and value kinds (`--depth`)
`inv show`		Show verbatim inventory YAML (may contain secrets)
`inv edit`	`e`	Edit the inventory or one fragment in `$EDITOR`
`inv validate`	`v`	Validate one complete static Pigsty inventory
`inv check`	`ck`	Check inventory, controller, and target readiness
`inv diff`		Compare declarations of two inventories (value-free)
`inv cmdb`		Exchange with the PostgreSQL CMDB (experimental)

The inventory path comes from pig’s config resolution (the global -i/--inventory flag or the Pigsty home directory), and every command supports -o json|yaml structured output.

pig v0.9.0

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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 in the pgsql-full package alias.

Checksums

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v0.9.0 · 2025-12-28

pig v0.5.0

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

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| File | Checksum | | --- | --- | | [pig\_0\.5\.0\-1\_amd64\.deb](https://github.com/pgsty/pig/releases/download/v0.5.0/pig_0.5.0-1_amd64.deb) | MD5 · `9ec6f3caf3edbe867caab5de0e0ccb33` | | [pig\_0\.5\.0\-1\_arm64\.deb](https://github.com/pgsty/pig/releases/download/v0.5.0/pig_0.5.0-1_arm64.deb) | MD5 · `4fbb0a42cd8a88bce50b3c9d85745d77` | | [pig\-0\.5\.0\-1\.aarch64\.rpm](https://github.com/pgsty/pig/releases/download/v0.5.0/pig-0.5.0-1.aarch64.rpm) | MD5 · `9cf8208396b068cab438f72c90d39efe` | | [pig\-0\.5\.0\-1\.x86\_64\.rpm](https://github.com/pgsty/pig/releases/download/v0.5.0/pig-0.5.0-1.x86_64.rpm) | MD5 · `d9a8d78c30f45e098b29c3d16471aa8d` | | [pig\-v0\.5\.0\.linux\-amd64\.tar\.gz](https://github.com/pgsty/pig/releases/download/v0.5.0/pig-v0.5.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz) | MD5 · `761df804ff7b83965c41492700717674` | | [pig\-v0\.5\.0\.linux\-arm64\.tar\.gz](https://github.com/pgsty/pig/releases/download/v0.5.0/pig-v0.5.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz) | MD5 · `5d1830069d98030728f08835f883ea39` |

v0.5.0 · 2025-06-30

Instantly Clone PostgreSQL Databases—No Black Magic Required

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 new file_copy_method = clone setting, you can clone a huge database in seconds without consuming additional storage.

This is a particularly good fit for AI agents. As I wrote in What Kind of Database Do AI Agents Need?, ultra-low-cost database cloning is critical for counterfactual experiments. So when Pigsty 4.0 shipped, I added this capability to its PostgreSQL database provisioning workflow.

What Is a PostgreSQL Distribution?

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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 systems.

I. Start with Linux Distributions

When most people hear “distribution,” they think of Linux distributions: Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Arch, and so on. But if Linux already exists, why do we need Linux distributions? What exactly is the relationship between the two?

sty on PIG

pig v1.8.0

Native pig sty boot

pig v1.6.2

Highlights

Extension Catalog

Compatibility Notes

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Compile, Validate, Then Commit: The Native sty conf Pipeline

Decision

Edit the Declaration, Preserve the Document: Lossless Pigsty Inventory

Decision

pig v1.4.2

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Use the CMDB Pigsty Already Has

Decision

A Bounded Grafana Client Instead of Dashboard Shell Scripts

Decision

PIG 2.0 Product Direction: A Proposal, Not a Release Contract

Decision

Bootstrapping a Pigsty Controller as a Recoverable Transaction

Decision

pig v1.2.0

pig v1.1.1

Fixes

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pig sty

pig do

Command overview

pig inventory

pig v0.9.0

Changes

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pig v0.5.0

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Instantly Clone PostgreSQL Databases—No Black Magic Required

What Is a PostgreSQL Distribution?

I. Start with Linux Distributions

Native `pig sty boot`