PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 was released yesterday by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, containing previews of all features that will be available when PostgreSQL 19 is made generally available.

The CloudNativePG community has made available the operand container images for PostgreSQL 19 beta 1 in our postgres-containers image registry to be used with the CloudNativePG operator. The images follow our current naming convention — for example 19beta1-minimal-trixie — and are not intended for production use.

Please join us in testing the new features of PostgreSQL 19 with CloudNativePG, and help us diagnose and fix bugs in Postgres before the final launch.

Here follows a quick example of a 3 instance Postgres 19 Cluster manifest to be deployed in your Kubernetes cluster.

apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
 name: pg19

spec:
 imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:19beta1-minimal-trixie
 instances: 3
 storage:
  size: 1Gi

Once deployed, you can easily verify the version with:

kubectl exec -ti pg19-1 -c postgres -- psql -qAt -c 'SELECT version()'

Returning something similar to:

PostgreSQL 19beta1 (Debian 19~beta1-1.pgdg13+1) on aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu,
  compiled by gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, 64-bit

If you are interested in trying CloudNativePG on your laptop with kind (Kubernetes in Docker), follow the instructions you find in the Quickstart.