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 Docker image to run a **PostgreSQL** database in a docker container with multiple users and databases.
 
-Image is based of the official postgres:9.6 image. It modifies the `docker-entrypoint.sh` to allow setup of multiple users and databases. Therefore there are two new environment variables that can be set `POSTGRES_USERS` and `POSTGRES_DATABASES`. The functionality of `POSTGRES_USER` and `POSTGRES_DB` is unimpeded. If set the given user and database will be created in addition to the other given users.
+Image is based of the official postgres:12 image. It modifies the `docker-entrypoint.sh` to allow setup of multiple users and databases. Therefore there are two new environment variables that can be set `POSTGRES_USERS` and `POSTGRES_DATABASES`. The functionality of `POSTGRES_USER` and `POSTGRES_DB` is unimpeded. If set the given user and database will be created in addition to the other given users.
 
 ### Usage