EDB is a leading contributor to Postgres®
Open source is at the core of everything we do. EDB contributes code, features, and fixes to the Postgres project, but our support for the community doesn’t stop there.
Building the future of Postgres, together
PostgreSQL’s strength comes from its community—engineers, contributors, and organizations that have helped it become the world’s most loved, used, and wanted database. EDB is a leading contributor to the PostgreSQL community, helping to advance new capabilities, maintain key projects, and mentor the next generation of open-source developers.
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community organizers
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PostgreSQL patch authors in 2025
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sponsored community conferences in 2025
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Additional open source projects we help build and support
Our commitment to open source doesn’t stop at the Postgres core. EDB maintains and contributes to other projects that make Postgres stronger, more reliable, and easier to use in collaboration with the community.
CloudNativePG™
CloudNativePg is the most popular Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL, fully open source, and community-driven. Originally created by EDB, CloudNativePG is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project, with all components available under the Apache 2 license on GitHub.
Contribute on GitHub
WarehousePG
WarehousePG is an open source data warehouse, that is an Apache 2 licensed fork of Greenplum® Database and PostgreSQL created by EDB. This is a strong alternative for Greenplum customers following the Broadcom acquisition and close-sourcing of the software.
Contribute on GitHub
Barman
Backup and Recovery Manager (barman) is an open-source administration tool for remote backups and disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers in business-critical environments. EDB actively maintains Barman which is distributed under GNU General Public License version 3 (GNU GPL 3).
Contribute on GitHub
pgAdmin
pgAdmin is the leading open source management tool for Postgres, that is actively maintained by EDB. pgAdmin provides a powerful graphical interface that simplifies the creation, maintenance and use of database objects, helping both novices and advanced users.
Contribute on GitHub
pgBouncer
PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooling tool for PostgreSQL. It sits between client applications and the database server, managing a pool of pre-existing database connections. EDB contributes heavily to pgBouncer and uses it in its own products.
Contribute on GitHub
Trusted Postgres Architect (TPA)
Trusted Postgres Architect (TPA) is an orchestration tool developed by EDB that uses Ansible to deploy Postgres clusters according to EDB's recommendations. With TPA, you can deploy highly available Postgres nodes, including those in Kubernetes.
Contribute on GitHub
Replication Manager (repmgr)
Replication Manager is a suite of open-source tools to manage replication and failover within a cluster of PostgreSQL servers. It is distributed under the GNU GPL 3 and maintained by EDB.
Contribute on GitHub
PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers
Meet the people behind the code
EDB engineers contribute code, lead releases, and mentor new developers who want to join the project. You can subscribe to the EDB Engineering Newsletter to follow their work, or join the PostgreSQL hacker mentoring program to start contributing yourself.
“PostgreSQL is more than the sum of its parts contributed by individuals and companies. We understand what running PostgreSQL at scale looks like, and are happy to contribute features that make the project even more mature.”
Jozef de Vries, Chief Product Engineering Officer
“At EDB, we are moving PostgreSQL forward in the community and for our customers. We have a great team contributing to open source development of PostgreSQL and supporting the community in many other ways. I'm happy to be among many smart and dedicated colleagues and building sustainable open source development.”
Peter Eisentraut, PostgreSQL committer and core team member; VP, Chief Architect, Database Servers
“EDB has made an exceptional commitment to allowing me, and many others, to contribute to PostgreSQL. I came to work here in 2010, and continue to work here now, because of that commitment—not only by allowing me to develop great features to support the open source project, but also providing me with the opportunity to work with so many brilliant colleagues doing similar work.”
Robert Haas, PostgreSQL major contributor and committer; VP, Chief Architect, Database Servers
"I'm extremely pleased that EDB supports me to continue my work on open source PostgreSQL. I thoroughly enjoy collaborating with Postgres hackers both at EDB and the PostgreSQL community at large—I have learned a lot from them over the years on all sorts of topics."
Álvaro Herrera, PostgreSQL contributor and committer
"EDB supports my contributions to PostgreSQL, allowing me to participate in community work during my regular hours. This means I can bring valuable insights back to the company and help us show up even stronger in the community and at events. I get to work with some of the smartest people in our community, delivering real project impact I'm proud of."
Floor Drees, Principal Program Manager
EDB perspectives on Postgres
The future of Postgres is written not just in commits, but in conversations, experiments, and shared experience. Explore insights from EDB engineers and the wider community who are building that future together.
EDB Technical Blog
EDB’s developers are among the most active contributors to PostgreSQL, designing and maintaining the features that power enterprise workloads worldwide. Explore their technical blogs for hands-on guidance, code examples, and the engineering stories behind every major release.
The Evolution of PostgreSQL
From a university research project to the foundation of modern, AI-driven applications, PostgreSQL’s story spans nearly 40 years of open innovation and community collaboration.
Connecting with the global Postgres community
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