PostgreSQL的核心开发工作由全球开发组(英語:PostgreSQL Global Development Group)负责,他们专注于数据库引擎及其核心组件的研发与优化。在这个核心团队之外,还活跃着一个生机勃勃的开发者社区和生态系统,他们为PostgreSQL提供了众多增强功能,填补了通常由商业数据库供应商所提供的功能空缺。这些扩展涵盖了地理空间数据处理[9]、时序数据库[10]支持等特殊领域,以及模拟其他数据库产品的兼容层。[11][12][13][14]
同时,第三方开发者也贡献了各种用户和机器接口功能,包括图形用户界面[15][16][17]、负载均衡和高可用性工具集等。[18]
尽管这个庞大的支持网络(涵盖个人、企业、产品和项目)并非PostgreSQL开发组的一部分,但它们共同促进了PostgreSQL生态系统的繁荣发展,对数据库的推广与应用起到了至关重要的作用。[19]
尽管Postgres计划正式的终止了,BSD许可证(Postgres遵守BSD许可证发行)却使开发者们得以获取源代码并进一步开发系统。1994年,两个加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的研究生 Andrew Yu和Jolly Chen 增加了一个SQL语言解释器来替代早先的基于Ingres的QUEL系统,建立了Postgres95。代码随后被发布到互联网上供全世界使用。Postgres95在1996年被重命名为PostgreSQL以便突出该数据库全新的SQL查询语言。
^PostGIS. postgis.net. 2023-12-18 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-02-07). PostGIS extends the capabilities of the PostgreSQL relational database by adding support for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data.
^Temporal Extensions. PostgreSQL Wiki. 2023-12-18 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2024-12-06). Postgres can be extended to become a Temporal Database. Such databases track the history of database content over time, automatically retaining said history and allowing it to be altered and queried.
^pg_dbms_job. GitHub.com. 2023-11-08 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2024-11-05). PostgreSQL extension to schedules and manages jobs in a job queue similar to Oracle DBMS_JOB package.
^WiltonDB. WiltonDB. 2023 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-08). WiltonDB [is] packaged for Windows. It strives to be usable as a drop-in replacement to Microsoft SQL Server.
^Babelfish for PostgreSQL. babelfishpg.org. [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-16). Babelfish for PostgreSQL ... provides the capability for PostgreSQL to understand queries from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server.
^PostgreSQL Clients. wiki.postgresql.org. 2023-10-18 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-02-07). This page is a partial list of interactive SQL clients (GUI or otherwise) ... that you can type SQL in to and get results from them.
^Design Tools. wiki.postgresql.org. 2023-10-23 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-14). Tools to help with designing a schema, via creating Entity-Relationship diagrams and similar. Most are GUI.
^Community Guide to PostgreSQL GUI Tools. wiki.postgresql.org. 2023-12-01 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-16). This page is a list of miscellaneous utilities that work with Postgres (ex: data loaders, comparators etc.).
^Replication, Clustering, and Connection Pooling. wiki.postgresql.org. 2020-07-13 [2023-12-18]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-28). There are many approaches available to scale PostgreSQL beyond running on a single server. ... There is no one-size fits all...
^This is recognized by the liberal permission to use the PostgreSQL name, as approved (for fair use, when not confusing people about a legal relationship with the actual PostgreSQL project) when used in support of PostgreSQL, subject to the PostgreSQL Trademark Policy:
Trademark Policy. PostgreSQL.org. 2020-12-08 [2023-12-17]. (原始内容存档于2025-01-29). We will try to work with you to permit uses [of the PostgreSQL name] that support the PostgreSQL project and our Community.