# Render Postgres — Deploy fully managed, enterprise-grade databases that scale to any workload.

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- [Create & Connect](/docs/postgresql-creating-connecting): Spinning up a new database on Render? Start here.
- [Recovery & Backups](/docs/postgresql-backups): Restore your database to a previous state in the event of data loss.
- [Read Replicas](/docs/postgresql-read-replicas): Offload expensive read operations to separate instances.
- [High Availability](/docs/postgresql-high-availability): Automatically swap to a standby database when your primary encounters an issue.
- [Admin Apps](/docs/postgresql-apps): Connect apps to manage your schemas, view query plans, and monitor connections.
- [Extensions](/docs/postgresql-extensions): Store AI embeddings with pgvector, geospatial data with PostGIS, and much more.

### Plan details

*Flexible plans*

Set your database's storage and compute independently.

*Legacy instance types*

View specs for legacy Starter, Standard, Pro, and Pro Plus instances.

### Advanced topics

*Connection pooling*

Control the volume of connections to your database.

*Upgrading your version*

Move to a more recent version of PostgreSQL.

*Troubleshooting performance*

Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks.

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