postgresql@14 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2026-11-12

Install command:
brew install postgresql@14

Object-relational database system

https://www.postgresql.org/

License: PostgreSQL

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/postgresql@14.json

Formula code: postgresql@14.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 14.23

Other versions:

postgresql@18 18.4 Object-relational database system
postgresql@17 17.10 Object-relational database system
postgresql@16 16.14 Object-relational database system
postgresql@15 15.18 Object-relational database system
postgresql@13 13.23 Object-relational database system
postgresql@12 12.22 Object-relational database system

Depends on:

icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
krb5 1.22.2 Network authentication protocol
lz4 1.10.0 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
openssl@3 3.6.3 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
readline 8.3.3 Library for command-line editing

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.5 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
If an old PostgreSQL data directory ($HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/postgres) still exists,
you can migrate to a versioned data directory by running:
    mv -v "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/postgres" "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/postgresql@14"

(Make sure PostgreSQL is stopped before executing this command)

This formula has created a default database cluster with:
    initdb --locale=en_US.UTF-8 -E UTF-8 $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/postgresql@14

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Installs (--HEAD)335572
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Build Errors7