postgresql@16

Deprecation date: 2028-11-09

Install command: 
brew install postgresql@16

Object-relational database system

https://www.postgresql.org/

License: PostgreSQL

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/postgresql@16.json

Formula code: postgresql@16.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 ✅ 16.13

Other versions:

postgresql@18 18.3 Object-relational database system
postgresql@17 17.9 Object-relational database system
postgresql@15 15.17 Object-relational database system
postgresql@14 14.22 Object-relational database system
postgresql@13 13.23 Object-relational database system
postgresql@12 12.22 Object-relational database system

Keg-only

Depends on:

icu4c@78 78.2 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 3.6.1 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
readline 8.3.3 Library for command-line editing
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
This formula has created a default database cluster with:
    initdb --locale=en_US.UTF-8 -E UTF-8 $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/postgresql@16

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
postgresql@16 16,606
postgresql@16 --HEAD 25
Installs on Request (30 days)
postgresql@16 16,589
postgresql@16 --HEAD 25
Build Errors (30 days)
postgresql@16 25
Installs (90 days)
postgresql@16 37,037
postgresql@16 --HEAD 68
Installs on Request (90 days)
postgresql@16 37,014
postgresql@16 --HEAD 68
Installs (365 days)
postgresql@16 110,122
postgresql@16 --HEAD 250
Installs on Request (365 days)
postgresql@16 109,968
postgresql@16 --HEAD 250