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Docker Official Image packaging for Postgres

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2017-02-06 · latest 2025-09-25

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  1. …against adding major version upgrade. I (well, a lot of people judging from votes and comments in https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37 and stars in https://github.com/tianon/docker-postgres-upgrade ) would love that, and…
    comment by ktosobcy · 2025-09-25 · in PostgreSQL 18 Released
  2. Yeah, we've offered to make that happen but there's been zero response: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37#issueco... Btw, what do you find convoluted about our project (pgautoupgrade)? It started out as super simple like…
    comment by justinclift · 2024-10-01 · in PostgreSQL 17
  3. …potential problems. See: "Docker Hub image for version 12.4 contains a cryptominer [Confirmed!]" https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/770
    comment by pella · 2024-01-14 · in The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet
  4. Weak password + Open ports ---> Malware attack ( kinsing , etc ) so use "-p 127.0.0.1:5432:5432" - https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/770 - https://sysdig.com/blog/zoom-into-kinsing-kdevtmpfsi -…
    comment by pella · 2023-12-21 · in How to Escape a Container
  5. …downside with the Postgres container though... no automatic upgrade path between major versions: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37 So, if you want to keep on a supported version of PostgreSQL then every few years you'll…
    comment by justinclift · 2023-07-07 · in Cloud Backed SQLite
  6. …reminded me of official Postgres Docker image running a cryptominer in the background [1] [1] - https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/770
    comment by tzhenghao · 2023-05-20 · in PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended
  7. …a number of Docker Official Images: https://github.com/docker-library/bashbrew/blob/master/scrip... https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/apply... https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/Docke...
    comment by xenophonf · 2023-01-15 · in Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)
  8. …to see issues. there's a new PR merged into the github repo to fix a bug caused by the above merge: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/commit/41bd7bf3f4... I bet they'll be pushing out new containers shortly.
    comment by stimnw · 2022-12-22 · in Anyone seeing issues with containers in GitHub Actions (despite no code change)?
  9. …examples would seem to suggest that's the norm. Example, here's the official postgres Dockerfile: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/3bb48045b4dc... . Do you work in an environment that maintains custom copies of every…
    comment by Volundr · 2021-11-30 · in Will Nix Overtake Docker?
  10. Well I use the official Postgresql docker image ;) Also it looks like this is not new https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37
    comment by conradfr · 2021-05-22 · in An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring Improvements
  11. In the simple case, yes it is, but it scales poorly; consider ex. https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/b9c080857b88... which is 112 lines run together like that to keep things in a single layer. This is pretty bad for…
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2020-12-06 · in Docker's Second Death
  12. It looks like you didn't accept the answers in the previous github issue https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/767 and opened a new one with the same claim adding '[confirmed]' without further proof.
    comment by mtmail · 2020-10-06 · in Docker hub image for PostgreSQL version 12.4 contains cryptominer
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    Docker hub image for PostgreSQL version 12.4 contains cryptominer
    story by antender · 2020-10-06 · 7 comments
  14. …a package manager jumps major versions, and also doesn't work when running postgres in Docker ( https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37 ).
    comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2020-04-04 · in PostgreSQL's Imperfections
  15. …official, not in the sense of "the upstream provides these". This is the repo for the Dockerfiles https://github.com/docker-library/postgres and it begins with: > This is the Git repo of the Docker "Official Image" for postgres (not to be…
    comment by Xylakant · 2019-05-09 · in PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
  16. …major version updates)? There is an issue about this (from 2014), but it has yet to be resolved: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37
    comment by chdsbd · 2017-09-05 · in Run your own OAuth2 server
  17. …RDS, firebase or mongo. Before docker became popular, I basically have to do something like [this]( https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/master/9.6/D... ), which I don't think I have mastered till this day.
    comment by bulldoa · 2017-08-29 · in The Marketing Behind MongoDB
  18. …in the article, but is pretty much a show stopper at the moment for some databases. e.g. Postgres ( https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/37 )
    comment by snowwolf · 2017-02-06 · in Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers