Linux Postgres version is out of date (v10 vs v16)

[spa5k]

What were you trying to install (or what else went wrong)?

Postgres

What exactly did you do?

Installed postgres, found out that it installs v10 for stable, and higest possible version is 12.3 from here - https://webinstall.dev/api/releases/postgres

What went wrong?

It should be v16.2

Which OS did you try on?

• Mac
• Windows
• Linux

What type of computer (i.e. laptop, desktop, Raspberry Pi)?

• Laptop or Desktop (amd64 / x86-64)
• Raspberry Pi (ARM-64)
• Other (please specify, if you know)

[coolaj86]

EnterpriseDB (the PostgreSQL company) does not provide Linux binaries

The problem here is that EnterpriseDB (the PostgreSQL company) stopped supporting Linux around v10.x:

• https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
• https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/#generic

It's now up to individual maintainers to roll their own packages, and I don't have the resources to do that.

There's probably a way to extract the binaries from the .deb or .rpm and they're probably built in a way that they'll install on any Linux. However, dependency management may become an issue.

Alpine Linux doesn't support recent PostgreSQL in recent releases:

• https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.14/main/x86_64/postgresql

[coolaj86]

I'm open to finding a solution, but I need help - probably from someone who has built PostgreSQL binaries before.

[spa5k]

That is indeed a problem, I think we can just mark Postgres as deprecated for now.