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PRODUCTION READINESS
A production-readiness checklist for PostgreSQL
The questions teams should answer before a PostgreSQL database becomes responsible for important product workflows.
8 min readUpdated 2026-08-19
Production readiness is a set of answered questions about access, recovery, observability, capacity, and change management.
Access and security
Who can connect? Which credentials are used? How are secrets rotated? Are private connections and least-privilege roles part of the normal operating model?
Recovery and change
Can the team identify a recovery point? Has a restore been tested? Is there a safe path for schema changes, migrations, and rollback decisions?
Visibility and ownership
Does someone know when the database is unhealthy, and is it clear who responds? A production system needs both technical signals and human ownership.