zalando/postgres-operator

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Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes

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Indexed issues: 460
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Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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460 open issues indexed

Logical backup webhook on success (or failure) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3184 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Logical backups cannot use virtual-hosted S3 addressing (no way to set addressing_style) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3183 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
`AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION` to fix Ceph/S3 multipart upload crashes Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3182 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
moveMasterPodsOffNode gives up after one failed retry instead of retrying Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3176 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
postgres-operator-ui chart >= 2.0.0 published without values.yaml (nil pointer panics) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3175 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Protect operator CRDs from accidental deletion via metadata finalizer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3168 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
API server starting only after all databases are reconciled while upgrading from 1.15.1 to 2.0.1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3163 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Credentials exposed as env vars instead of mounted read-only volumes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3161 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Issue: Add Pod Security Standards (PSA) Support to PostgreSQL CR Spec Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3158 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 3, 2026
UI does not allow selecting namespace for a new cluster and clusters from other namespaces are not displayed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3157 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Operator skips cluster update when changing controller ID Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3151 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
UI: Migrate from backoff to backon - drop-in replacement, archived upstream Open

dependencies good first issue ui

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3132 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Feature Request: separate settings for the replica connection pooler Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3113 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2026
inplace upgrade skipping major version upgrade, replica pod is not streaming from primary Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3103 · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Race-condition when doing syncRoles() Open

enhancement good first issue technical issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3099 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 27, 2026
Using workload identity to make backups on Azure Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3097 · Opened May 19, 2026
Feature request: Read CronJob secrets from different namespace than the cluster's Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3067 · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Feature Request: Add Helm values for PgBouncer directory permissions customization Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3066 · Opened Apr 7, 2026
Patroni config params are not reverting to their default values upon removal from PostgreSQL configuration Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3061 · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Operator cache obsolete IP address during cluster migration Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3059 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2026
Request: Review and minimize postgres-pod RBAC permissions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3057 · Opened Mar 23, 2026
Operator warning - warnings.go:70] v1 Endpoints is deprecated in v1.33+; use discovery.k8s.io/v1 EndpointSlice Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3056 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Bug in failsafe_mode ? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3055 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
can't create new database user Open

duplicate

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3022 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 25, 2025
Delete of postgres resource is ignored when finalizer is used Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3014 · Opened Dec 14, 2025
Enable "Quorum commit mode" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#3012 · Opened Dec 11, 2025
WAL-G S3 Endpoint Ignored when using `s3://<endpoint>/<bucket>/<prefix>` in `WALG_S3_PREFIX` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2992 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2025
How to disable BACKUP_NUM_TO_RETAIN while keeping scheduled base backups? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2990 · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Fix PDB Behavior for Single-Instance PostgreSQL Deployments Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2988 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2025
Postgres Operator UI does not reload Kubernetes tokens Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2981 · Opened Nov 12, 2025
Reduced privileges for human users until elevation requested Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2980 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 12, 2025
Operator taking 10-30 minutes to create new cluster/existing cluster change Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2976 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Default postgres instances don't reject connections without ssl Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2975 · Opened Nov 4, 2025
CVE-2024-56171 on pgbouncer image Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2974 · Opened Oct 31, 2025
EndpointSlices not cleaned up after replica service deletion (orphaned resources) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2973 · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Support EKS Pod identity Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2972 · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Configure a standby and primary for S3 WAL streaming Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2968 · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Sidecar without image specification causes all PostgreSQL pods to shutdown Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2966 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Replica in archive recovery mode Open

discussion enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2964 · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Allow user specify exact resources requests and limits Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2959 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2025
PostgreSQL Replica Fails to Start After Major Version Upgrade (WAL-G Issue) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2957 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 24, 2025
SSL S3 connection failing for clone and standby cluster Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2935 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2025
Add named containerPorts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2933 · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Multiple labels in node_readiness_label & empty postgresql spec nodeAffinity triggers a perma-diff in cluster statefulset Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2931 · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Bug Report: enable_pod_antiaffinity not applied to pooler Deployment Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2930 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 1, 2025
Standby cluster is in archive recovery state Open

question

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zalando/postgres-operator#2929 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 27, 2025
It is possible to add IvorySQL support to the operator Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2928 · Opened Jun 23, 2025
allow option to not install extensions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2927 · Opened Jun 21, 2025
Is there a way to enable verbose logging for pgbouncer ? Open

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zalando/postgres-operator#2924 · Opened Jun 18, 2025
inplace upgrade fails - member is not streaming from primary Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

zalando/postgres-operator#2923 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2025

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