# Postgres

> **Preview**
> Postgres is in preview. Use it with care; the API and supported workflows may change.

Postgres gives your Applications and Jobs a managed PostgreSQL database. You can create a database yourself and connect your workloads to it.

Postgres automatically creates and manages credentials for your workloads. You can also get short-lived personal access from the Nais CLI when you need to inspect the database.

Postgres keeps backups continuously. When you need an older copy of the data, restore it to a new branch and inspect it without affecting the workloads that use your current database.

## Next steps

[🎯 Create Postgres](/persistence/postgres/how-to/create.md)

[🎯 Manage Postgres](/persistence/postgres/how-to/manage.md)

[🎯 Connect a workload](/persistence/postgres/how-to/use-in-workload.md)

[🎯 Connect as a personal user](/persistence/postgres/how-to/personal-access.md)

[🎯 Restore a database to a point in time](/persistence/postgres/how-to/restore-point-in-time.md)

[🎯 Delete Postgres](/persistence/postgres/how-to/delete.md)

[💡 Postgres branches](/persistence/postgres/explanations/branches.md)

[📚 Available extensions](/persistence/postgres/reference/extensions.md)

[📚 Postgres workload credentials](/persistence/postgres/reference/workload-credentials.md)

[📚 Postgres personal access](/persistence/postgres/reference/personal-access.md)

[📚 Postgres manifest reference](/persistence/postgres/reference/spec.md)