innovesys/postgresql-windows repository overview

⁠PostgreSQL on Windows

This repository contains the Dockerfile and entrypoint script to build a Docker image for PostgreSQL running on Windows containers.

⁠Links

• GitHub⁠
• License⁠

⁠Supported Tags

• 18, 18-nanoserver-ltsc2025, latest⁠
• 18-servercore-ltsc2025⁠
• 17, 17-servercore-ltsc2025⁠

⁠Usage

To build and run the Docker image, follow these steps:

1. Build the Image:

   docker build -t postgres-windows -f Dockerfile.nanoserver-ltsc2025 .
   

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2. Run the Container:

   docker run -d -p 5432:5432 --isolation process postgres-windows
   

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⁠Environment Variables

• POSTGRES_DB: The name of the default database to create. Defaults to postgres.
• POSTGRES_USER: The username for the PostgreSQL database. Defaults to postgres.
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD: The password for the PostgreSQL database. Defaults to POSTGRES_USER's value.

⁠Volumes

To persist data, you can mount a volume to the PostgreSQL data directory:

docker run -d -p 5432:5432 -v "$(pwd)/data:c:/pgsql/data" --isolation process postgres-windows