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Looks super snazzy: Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support? How's it work under the hood
by sa46 4y ago
Looks super snazzy:
Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support?
How's it work under the hood? Custom extensions?
- stronglikedan 4y agoJust helping OP keep up: https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-database-self-hosted https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-database-self-hosted
- jimmyechan 4y agoCurious to know your use case. Were you hoping to use Retool Database with your existing Postgres as a schema builder or as a data editor via their spreadsheet UI?
- tjsavage511 4y ago(PM at Retool) For self-hosted deployments, you can point an existing Postgres DB (v14.3 or later) to Retool Database - though it’s more specifically designed to quickly evolve a new database. For cloud customers, we currently don’t support pointing your own database but it’s something we’re thinking about! No custom extensions - we wanted to make it a lightweight and effective layer on top of Postgres. So it’s just a vanilla Postgres database under the hood. The UI gives you access to a lot of the power of Postgres, and for anything that you can’t do via the UI you can use the connection string directly: e.g. create triggers, create compound unique keys, etc.