Install Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

We recommend that you install Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL from Percona repositories using the package manager of your operating system. Find the list of supported Linux distributions on the Percona Software and Platform Lifecycle page page.

Installing Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL from Percona repositories means to subscribe to these repositories. Percona provides the percona-release repository management tool for this purpose. It simplifies operating repositories and enables to install and update both Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL packages and required dependencies smoothly.

Package contents

In addition to individual packages for its components, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL also includes two meta-packages: percona-ppg-server and percona-ppg-server-ha.

Using a meta-package, you can install all components it contains in one go.

percona-ppg-server

Package name on Debian/UbuntuPackage name on RHEL/derivatives

percona-ppg-server-12

percona-ppg-server12

The percona-ppg-server meta-package installs the PostgreSQL server with the following packages:

Package contents	Description
percona-postgresql%{pgmajorversion}-server	The PostgreSQL server package.
percona-postgresql-common	PostgreSQL database-cluster manager. It provides a structure under which multiple versions of PostgreSQL may be installed and/or multiple clusters maintained at one time.
percona-postgresql%{pgmajorversion}-contrib	A collection of additional PostgreSQLcontrib extensions
percona-pg-stat-monitor%{pgmajorversion}	A Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL.
percona-pgaudit	Provides detailed session or object audit logging via the standard PostgreSQL logging facility.
percona-pg_repack%{pgmajorversion}	rebuilds PostgreSQL database objects.
percona-wal2json%{pgmajorversion}	a PostgreSQL logical decoding JSON output plugin.

The %{pgmajorversion} variable stands for the major version of PostgreSQL.

percona-ppg-server-ha

Package name on Debian/UbuntuPackage name on RHEL/derivatives

percona-ppg-server-ha-12

percona-ppg-server-ha12

The percona-ppg-server-ha meta-package installs high-availability components that are recommended by Percona:

Package contents	Description
percona-patroni	A high-availability solution for PostgreSQL.
percona-haproxy	A high-availability and load-balancing solution
etcd	A consistent, distributed key-value store
python3-python-etcd	A Python client for ETCD.1
etcd-client, etcd-server	The client/server of the distributed key-value store. 2

To install Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, refer to the following tutorials:

• On Debian and Ubuntu
• On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives

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1. Is included in repositories for RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 operating systems ↩

2. Are included in repositories for Debian 12 operating system ↩

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Last update: August 30, 2023
Created: June 4, 2021