# Error when attempting install **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-attempting-install/94850 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [August 16, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-attempting-install/94850 "2018-08-16T06:05:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma) #### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-attempting-install/94850/6 "2018-08-16T09:30:14Z")
There is an article about using external postgres which may fit your usecase. > [@Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-discourse-with-a-separate-postgresql-server/46375): > > 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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/main/image/base/Dockerfile#L37); 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-attempting-install/94850)._