postgresql@16

Deprecation date: 2028-11-09

Install command: 
brew install postgresql@16

Object-relational database system

https://www.postgresql.org/

License: PostgreSQL

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		 sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
ventura ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 16.10

Other versions:

postgresql@17 17.6 Object-relational database system
postgresql@15 15.14 Object-relational database system
postgresql@14 14.19 Object-relational database system
postgresql@13 13.22 Object-relational database system
postgresql@12 12.22 Object-relational database system
postgresql@11 11.22 Object-relational database system

Keg-only

Depends on:

icu4c@77 77.1 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
krb5 1.22 Network authentication protocol
lz4 1.10.0 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
openssl@3 3.5.2 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
readline 8.3.1 Library for command-line editing
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm
gettext 0.26 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

gettext 0.26 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=C -E UTF-8 $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/postgresql@16

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
postgresql@16 6,527
postgresql@16 --HEAD 16
Installs on Request (30 days)
postgresql@16 6,516
postgresql@16 --HEAD 16
Build Errors (30 days)
postgresql@16 1
Installs (90 days)
postgresql@16 20,224
postgresql@16 --HEAD 41
Installs on Request (90 days)
postgresql@16 20,184
postgresql@16 --HEAD 41
Installs (365 days)
postgresql@16 105,184
postgresql@16 --HEAD 226
Installs on Request (365 days)
postgresql@16 104,235
postgresql@16 --HEAD 226