Create & Connect

Spinning up a new database on Render? Start here.

Recovery & Backups

Restore your database to a previous state in the event of data loss.

Read Replicas

Offload expensive read operations to separate instances.

High Availability

Automatically swap to a standby database when your primary encounters an issue.

Admin Apps

Connect apps to manage your schemas, view query plans, and monitor connections.

Extensions

Store AI embeddings with pgvector, geospatial data with PostGIS, and much more.

Flexible plans

Set your database's storage and compute independently.

Legacy instance types

View specs for legacy Starter, Standard, Pro, and Pro Plus instances.

Connection pooling

Control the volume of connections to your database.

Upgrading your version

Move to a more recent version of PostgreSQL.

Troubleshooting performance

Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks.

A simple query with a big problem

From slow query to fast —via stats

Taking random samples from big tables

Fix a top cause of slow queries in PostgreSQL