PostgreSQL is very attractive for developers, administrators, and architects. It has rich features that enable developers to perform tasks in an agile way. The following are some of the features that are attractive to developers:

• A new release almost every year; there have been 24 major releases until now, starting from postgres 6.0.
• Very good documentation and an active community enables developers to find and solve problems quickly. The PostgreSQL manual is over 2,500 pages.
• A rich extension repository enables developers to focus on business logic. Also, it enables developers to meet requirement changes easily.
• The source code is available free of charge. It can be customized and extended without huge effort.
• Rich clients and administrative tools enable developers to perform routine tasks such as describing database objects, exporting and importing data, and dumping and restoring databases very quickly.
• Database administration tasks do not require a lot of time and can be automated.
• PostgreSQL can be integrated easily with other database management systems giving the software architecture a good flexibility for implementing software designs.