Stephen
(Stephen)
January 13, 2023, 3:28pm
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Did you check the documentation on running external PostgreSQL? It’s here on Meta, not github. All of the documentation is visible at Documentation - Discourse Meta
Let’s say you’re using AWS RDS, or an existing PostgreSQL server managed elsewhere. It’s fairly straightforward to get Discourse to use such a setup, without needing to grant superuser privileges to anything that Discourse itself runs. Here’s how.
Prerequisites
Discourse requires PostgreSQL’s major version to match what we ship with in our docker images ; if you try to run on a newer or older version, it might work, but we don’t guarantee it, and if something breaks in the future, you get to …