Install TimescaleDB on Linux

URL: llms-txt#install-timescaledb-on-linux

Contents:

• Install and configure TimescaleDB on Postgres
• Add the TimescaleDB extension to your database
• Supported platforms
• Where to next

TimescaleDB is a Postgres extension for time series and demanding workloads that ingest and query high volumes of data.

This section shows you how to:

• Install and configure TimescaleDB on Postgres - set up a self-hosted Postgres instance to efficiently run TimescaleDB.
• Add the TimescaleDB extension to your database - enable TimescaleDB features and performance improvements on a database.

The following instructions are for development and testing installations. For a production environment, we strongly recommend that you implement the following, many of which you can achieve using Postgres tooling:

• Incremental backup and database snapshots, with efficient point-in-time recovery.
• High availability replication, ideally with nodes across multiple availability zones.
• Automatic failure detection with fast restarts, for both non-replicated and replicated deployments.
• Asynchronous replicas for scaling reads when needed.
• Connection poolers for scaling client connections.
• Zero-down-time minor version and extension upgrades.
• Forking workflows for major version upgrades and other feature testing.
• Monitoring and observability.

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