For my company I need to develop some features against our Discourse instance’s REST API. For local development and testing I’ve been following Install Discourse for development using Docker successfully for quite some time now. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve last been developing. Yesterday I wan…

If your staging/production site is already updated to PG 15, you can pull a backup from there. Alternatively, you could try to manually update your local data files. This might help: cd discourse mkdir data/postgres_new docker run --rm \ --entrypoint=/bin/bash \ -v "$(pwd)/data/postgres":/var/li…

Postgres doesn't seem to be running when running Discourse locally using Docker

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 21, 2025, 1:53pm 4

Don’t use that guide. It needs to be updated or deleted.

Use this one: Developing Discourse using a Dev Container

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Postgres doesn't seem to be running when running Discourse locally using Docker

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