Recently, maintainers of the APT repository from the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) announced that apt.postgresql.org has added support for the loong64 architecture, marking the official inclusion of LoongArch into the PostgreSQL official repository. LoongArch becomes the fourth CPU architecture officially supported by the PGDG APT repository, following AMD64, ARM64 and PPC64EL. This represents a milestone breakthrough from zero to one for the independent instruction set architecture entering the ecosystem of world-class open-source databases.

The build host for this port is powered by the Loongson 3B6000 processor. Bootstrapping of the software packages was completed in early July, and the repository is now officially available. The LoongArch PostgreSQL packages are integrated into the identical package system as other mainstream architectures, sharing the same repository, package names, signing mechanisms and update cadence, backed by the credibility of the official repository. For users with Loongson devices running Debian, simply configuring the PGDG APT source enables access, deployment and utilization of officially signed PostgreSQL packages and extension ecosystem. This eliminates historical operation and maintenance challenges for independent architectures, such as manual source compilation and delayed updates of third-party ported versions, greatly cutting the overall costs of database deployment, operation, maintenance and upgrades.

As a world-renowned open-source relational database, PostgreSQL has ranked first in Stack Overflow’s developer usage survey for three consecutive years. It boasts a mature and stable database kernel, and its standout advantage lies in the rich ecosystem built upon powerful plugin extensions, including PostGIS for geospatial data, TimescaleDB for time-series data and pgvector for vector databases. It remains one of the most favored databases among developers worldwide.