Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
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Fix deletion timestamp handling for clusters with finalizers (#3015)
When a Postgres cluster has a finalizer, deleting it sets a DeletionTimestamp
but doesn't remove the object until the finalizer is cleared. The operator
was not properly handling these DeletionTimestamp changes:

1. postgresqlUpdate() was filtering out events where only DeletionTimestamp
   changed (it only checked Spec and Annotations), causing the delete to
   never be processed.

2. EventUpdate case in processEvent() didn't check for DeletionTimestamp,
   so even if the event reached the processor, it would run Update() instead
   of Delete().

3. removeFinalizer() used a cached object with stale resourceVersion,
   causing "object has been modified" errors.

Fixes:
- Add explicit DeletionTimestamp check in postgresqlUpdate() to queue the event
- Add DeletionTimestamp check in EventUpdate to call Delete() when set
- Fetch latest object from API before removing finalizer to avoid conflicts

Co-authored-by: Felix Kunde <felix-kunde@gmx.de>
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README.md

Postgres Operator

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The Postgres Operator delivers an easy to run highly-available PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes (K8s) powered by Patroni. It is configured only through Postgres manifests (CRDs) to ease integration into automated CI/CD pipelines with no access to Kubernetes API directly, promoting infrastructure as code vs manual operations.

Operator features

  • Rolling updates on Postgres cluster changes, incl. quick minor version updates
  • Live volume resize without pod restarts (AWS EBS, PVC)
  • Database connection pooling with PGBouncer
  • Support fast in place major version upgrade. Supports global upgrade of all clusters.
  • Pod protection during bootstrap phase and configurable maintenance windows
  • Restore and cloning Postgres clusters on AWS, GCS and Azure
  • Additionally logical backups to S3 or GCS bucket can be configured
  • Standby cluster from S3 or GCS WAL archive
  • Configurable for non-cloud environments
  • Basic credential and user management on K8s, eases application deployments
  • Support for custom TLS certificates
  • UI to create and edit Postgres cluster manifests
  • Compatible with OpenShift

PostgreSQL features

The Postgres Operator has been developed at Zalando and is being used in production for over five years.

Supported Postgres & K8s versions

Release Postgres versions K8s versions Golang
v1.15.1 13 → 17 1.27+ 1.25.3
v1.14.0 13 → 17 1.27+ 1.23.4
v1.13.0 12 → 16 1.27+ 1.22.5
v1.12.0 11 → 16 1.27+ 1.22.3
v1.11.0 11 → 16 1.27+ 1.21.7
v1.10.1 10 → 15 1.21+ 1.19.8

Getting started

For a quick first impression follow the instructions of this tutorial.

Supported setups of Postgres and Applications

Features Features

Documentation

There is a browser-friendly version of this documentation at postgres-operator.readthedocs.io