Redgate Launches pgNow and pgCompare, Empowering Developers to Deploy and Maintain PostgreSQL Environments

CAMBRIDGE, England, July 18, 2025 — Redgate Software has announced the launch of Redgate pgNow Community and Redgate pgCompare Community, two new tools that bring Redgate’s trusted database DevOps capabilities to PostgreSQL. Available immediately and free* to use, the tools further extend Redgate’s multi-database support for PostgreSQL, reflecting the growing adoption of PostgreSQL in modern data environments.

The relentless increase in the volume and variety of data that organizations need to collect, store, and analyze is driving a shift in how database platforms are used. PostgreSQL continues to gain ground in this landscape, according to the latest figures from the DB-Engines Index, which ranks it among the top four most popular database systems globally. It remains one of the few major platforms to record consistent month-over-month growth over the past year.

The trend is also reflected in recent research by Redgate’s State of the Database Landscape report, which found that nearly three quarters (74%) of organizations now use more than one database platform, with a quarter (25%) operating across four or more. The findings suggest that PostgreSQL is increasingly favoured for its open-source flexibility, particularly in environments that demand scalability and cross-platform integration.

“PostgreSQL has rapidly moved from a niche option to a critical part of modern data stacks, especially as teams race to build cloud-native and AI-driven applications,” said Grant Fritchey, Redgate Advocate. “At the same time, the pressure to move faster and reduce risk has never been higher. With pgNow and pgCompare, Redgate is responding to a clear and urgent need for trusted, developer-friendly tools that make it easier to monitor, manage, and support smooth deployments across PostgreSQL environments at scale.”

Redgate pgNow Community

Designed to offer fast, focused diagnostics for PostgreSQL, Redgate pgNow gives DBAs and developers instant visibility into what’s really happening inside their databases. Both experienced and new-to-PostgreSQL users will save time by diagnosing issues, tuning configurations, and fixing slowdowns – fast. With no setup, no agents, and only minimal permissions required, PostgreSQL users on every level get a purpose-built tool that delivers actionable insights when they’re needed most. Benefits include:

• Stay in control of your PostgreSQL performance – Triage fast and troubleshoot smarter with query snapshots and workload deltas, track live sessions and wait states in real time, blocking process detection and insight, and gleaning immediate powerful and valuable internal PostgreSQL performance data.
• Get straight to answers – Understand what’s wrong and what to do next without the need to dig through raw metrics or leverage deep expertise, thanks to clear answers including configuration health checks and tuning suggestions, index usage and duplication insights, and vacuum effectiveness summaries.
• Purpose-built for PostgreSQL with no clutter or setup – Use a lightweight desktop app developed for Windows, macOS, Linux, with no required setup, storage, or agents, and minimal permissions: pg_monitor-level access only.

Redgate pgNow is available as a free download here.

Redgate pgCompare Community

Supporting users who need to deploy changes to PostgreSQL databases or compare two databases, Redgate pgCompare is the fastest way to deploy and compare PostgreSQL schemas. It helps users do these jobs quickly, simply, and with zero errors, including the following features:

• Compare PostgreSQL databases – From dev to test to production, Redgate pgCompare enables PostgreSQL schema change comparisons, so teams can explore what’s changed in each database object, down to individual lines of code.
• Find and fix problems in production – Teams can find and fix errors by using comparisons against another database, then deploy single objects to fix issues fast, or create an error-free deployment script in minutes.
• Speed up releases – Validate and deploy schema changes in minutes to keep shipping features without firefighting.
• Deploy with zero errors – Redgate pgCompare scripts database dependencies in the right order to make sure deployment is successful. Notifications about any issues, such as data loss, are delivered before deployment begins.

*pgCompare is free as part of the Community edition, available to students, educators, small businesses, and non-commercial open-source projects. Users can download Redgate pgCompare here.

Redgate Advocate, Kellyn Gorman comments: “As AI and machine learning become core to application architectures, database environments must evolve. With these launches, Redgate is empowering teams to deliver PostgreSQL changes faster and with confidence – so they can focus on innovation, not fire-fighting.”

About Redgate Software

Redgate offers end-to-end database DevOps to help organizations streamline software development and get value from their data faster. Redgate’s portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, anywhere. We make life easier for IT leaders, development and operations teams, increasing efficiency, reducing errors and protecting business-critical data.

Source: Redgate Software