#heroku postgres

Jonathan Brown 14 Oct 2025 2 min read

We are thrilled to announce the next generation of Heroku Postgres to power a data foundation for the next wave of intelligent and mission-critical applications. This roadmap has been driven by listening closely to our customers, culminating in the introduction of a new Heroku Postgres Advanced tier. This revolutionary data foundation is designed to eliminate previous scaling limits, unlock unprecedented…

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Jonathan Brown 29 May 2025 4 min read

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Heroku Postgres version 17, packed with new features and enhancements to your database performance. And that’s not all – we’re also introducing a game-changing feature that streamlines your upgrade experience. This new method of version upgrade is now the default, so you can try it to upgrade […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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Kavya Premkumar 29 May 2025 7 min read

If you’ve ever deployed an app on Heroku, chances are you’ve used Heroku Postgres — our fully managed, reliable, and scalable Postgres database service. It’s the backbone for millions of applications, from weekend side projects to enterprise-grade systems running in production. But Postgres, like all software, continues to evolve. With new versions released each year, […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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Siraj Ghaffar 26 Jun 2024 5 min read

Heroku Connect makes it easy to sync data at scale between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres. You can build Heroku apps that bidirectionally share data in your Postgres database with your contacts, accounts, and other custom objects in Salesforce. Easily configured with a point-and-click UI, you can get the integration up and running in minutes without […] The post Optimizing Data…

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Jonathan Brown 21 May 2024 5 min read

We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB option. We deliver exceptional transactional query performance with Amazon Aurora as the backing infrastructure. One of our beta customers said: “The difference was noticeable right from the start. Heroku […] The post Introducing New…

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Vivek Viswanathan 10 May 2024 3 min read

Heroku Postgres is one of the world’s largest managed data stores. Our customers rely on Heroku Postgres to store valuable data, which powers a range of experiences and services they build on Heroku. Salesforce Data Cloud integrates all your company’s data into the Einstein 1 Platform, creating a comprehensive customer view for personalized engagements, analytics, […] The post Introducing the…

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Jonathan Brown 26 Oct 2023 4 min read

We’re pleased to introduce the pgvector extension on Heroku Postgres. In an era where large language models (LLMs) and AI applications are paramount, pgvector provides the essential capability for performing high-dimensional vector similarity searches. This allows Heroku Postgres to quickly find similar data points in complex data, which is great for applications like recommendation systems […] The post Enhancing Heroku…

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Scott Truitt 10 Jul 2020 2 min read

Today we are announcing a beta release of our new streaming data connector between Heroku Postgres and Apache Kafka on Heroku. Heroku runs millions of Postgres services and tens of thousands of Apache Kafka services, and we increasingly see developers choosing to start with Apache Kafka as the foundation of their data architecture. But for […] The post Streaming Data…

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Scott Truitt 22 May 2019 3 min read

Today, we’re thrilled to announce Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink, a new integration that enables customers to seamlessly and securely connect Heroku Postgres databases in Private Spaces to resources in one or more Amazon VPCs. Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink connections are secure and stable by default because traffic to and from Heroku Postgres stays on the […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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Rimas Silkaitis 8 Aug 2017 3 min read

At the core of Heroku’s data services sits Postgres, and today, we are making it even easier to bend Heroku Postgres to the very unique needs of your application’s stack. With these new features, you can easily customize Postgres, making it more powerful and configurable, while retaining all the automation and management capabilities of Heroku […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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Rimas Silkaitis 3 May 2016 2 min read

Starting today, Postgres 9.5 is now the new default version for all new Heroku Postgres databases. We’ve had hundreds of customers using early beta versions of 9.5 and the feedback has been positive. For many customers, the new UPSERT functionality was the last feature that prevented many of them from moving from other relational databases […] The post Postgres 9.5…

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Rimas Silkaitis 8 Jan 2016 3 min read

Heroku has long been committed to making PostgreSQL one of the best relational databases in the world. We’re also committed to giving you the ability to try the latest release as soon as it’s available. Today, we’re pleased to announce the public beta of Postgres 9.5 on Heroku. PostgreSQL 9.5 brings a bevy of super […] The post Here’s Postgres…

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Peter van Hardenberg 8 Jan 2015 3 min read

Each major release of PostgreSQL brings lots of great new functionality. The recent release of PostgreSQL 9.4 includes an exciting new JSON data type, improvements to window functions, materialized views, and a host of other performance improvements and enhancements. We’ll go into more depth on what’s new and exciting in this release below, but first, […] The post PostgreSQL 9.4…

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