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title: Manage PostgreSQL Clusters
description: Schedule updates, tag, relocate, fork, restore, upgrade, reconfigure, and destroy clusters.
product: Databases
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/manage-cluster/
last_updated: "2026-07-31"
---

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# Manage PostgreSQL Clusters

Generated on 1 Aug 2026

PostgreSQL is an open source, object-relational database built for extensibility, data integrity, and speed. Its concurrency support makes it fully ACID-compliant, and it supports dynamic loading and catalog-driven operations to let users customize its data types, functions, and more.

[How to Schedule Automatic Software Updates for PostgreSQL Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/schedule-updates/index.html.md): Customize the maintenance window for automatic software updates to your database cluster.

[How to Tag PostgreSQL Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/tag/index.html.md): Organize PostgreSQL databases clusters with tags to group and filter databases or create monitoring alert policies for multiple databases at once.

[How to Relocate Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/relocate/index.html.md): Change a cluster’s regional datacenter.

[How to Configure Custom CNAME Records for PostgreSQL Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/configure-custom-cnames/index.html.md): Assign custom domain names to PostgreSQL Standard Edition clusters using the DigitalOcean API.

[How to Fork a PostgreSQL Database Cluster](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/fork-clusters/index.html.md): Fork a PostgreSQL database cluster to create a new cluster from a point in time or the latest transaction.

[How to Manually Restore PostgreSQL Database Clusters from Backups](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/restore-from-backups/index.html.md): Recover from accidental data loss by manually restoring a PostgreSQL database cluster from backups.

[How to Upgrade PostgreSQL to a New Version](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/upgrade-version/index.html.md): Upgrade your PostgreSQL cluster to the latest supported version of PostgreSQL from the control panel.

[How to Reconfigure PostgreSQL Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/reconfigure/index.html.md): Edit your database engine’s configuration and parameters via the CLI or API.

[How to Migrate from Managed to Self-Managed PostgreSQL](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/migrate-to-self-managed/index.html.md): Copy databases from a DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL cluster to a PostgreSQL instance you run.

[How to Destroy PostgreSQL Database Clusters](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/destroy/index.html.md): Destroy a database cluster to permanently and irreversibly destroy the cluster, its contents, and its automated backups.