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title: pgtapes
description: The pgtapes reference.
editUrl: https://github.com/papercomputeco/pgtapes/tree/main/docs
sourceRepo: papercomputeco/pgtapes
sourcePath: docs/
lastUpdated: 2026-08-14
---

Reference pages for pgtapes, synced at build time from
[papercomputeco/pgtapes](https://github.com/papercomputeco/pgtapes). Each page is owned by
that repo, so a behavior change and its documentation land in the same
pull request there.

- [pgtapes](/docs/pgtapes/introduction/) — The PostgreSQL image the tapes server runs on — a CloudNativePG base with pg_duckdb and pgvector built in.
- [Run the image](/docs/pgtapes/running/) — Start the image with docker run or under the CloudNativePG operator, and what each path does and does not configure for you.
- [What is in the image](/docs/pgtapes/image/) — The base image, extension versions, and the entrypoint and configuration mechanisms the build adds on top of it.
- [Image tags](/docs/pgtapes/tags/) — The tag scheme, why CloudNativePG constrains it, and which tags on the registry to use and which to avoid.
- [Build and publish](/docs/pgtapes/building/) — Build the image locally with the bundled build module, and publish multi-platform images to a registry.