Postgres supported versions

PostgreSQL is a relational database, open source, and very powerful. It has over 20 years of development and has a proved and reliable architecture. It is commonly adopted in many applications because of the following advantages:

PostgreSQL is provided on Heroku via an add-on. This add-on has a free initial plan, only for small applications such as websites or blogs and then is available at a given series of paid plans, according to your need.

Each year a new version of PostgreSQL is released and Heroku adopts the newest version as standard in a very short time. Heroku keeps the current version and the last three versions. The versions currently available are:

This means that every three years you need to upgrade the version of PostgreSQL used in your application because a new version of PostgreSQL is available and the last one is deprecated.