Postgres:12 container is not starting anymore

[daheile]

Hello,

Since around 1 week, postgres container with tag 12 is not starting anymore.
It fails with

popen failure: Cannot allocate memory
initdb: error: The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as "/usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin/initdb".
Check your installation.

This was working before.

Workaround: All ok using postgres container with tag "12-bullseye".

What has changed?

[yosifkit]

The change was adding Debian Bookworm based images as the default. The postgres:*bullseye images will continue to be maintained/updated until the respective PostgreSQL end of life or the next Debian release, Debian Trixie.

Likely the same issue as #1100. So, #1100 (comment).

[wey-gu]

for those who reached out here, in compose, add this to the service

    security_opt:
      - seccomp=unconfined

[tianon]

See also docker-library/official-images#16829