OLoliverrice·Aug 13, 2024
At Supabase we also recently switched to Nix for packaging our Postgres+extensions bundle
https://github.com/supabase/postgres/blob/develop/flake.nix
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Unmodified Postgres with some useful extensions
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16 sourcesCongrats on the launch!
Here's our experience with Supabase at https://automark.io (Next.js + Supabase).
- First of all, Supabase let us launch fast which was amazing. Super powerful Postgres features without the pain of self-hosting (or so we thought).
- We started out using their hosted product for both our DB, storage, auth, and functions.
- Functions have a critical bug that prevent us from using in development so we decided to move to our own API servers: https://github.com/supabase/edge-runtime/issues/212
- Now, the connection between our API servers and the database was slow (a few hundred ms per query), so we moved to self-hosting Postgres which was pretty painful. We tried to use https://github.com/supabase/postgres, but the documentation was very lacking and we had to make a bunch of modifications to get it to work. After we got
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it working, it was pretty smooth though - pretty easy to implement backups, etc.
- Our latest issue has been around auth where the cookie name options change. We've spent hours debugging random cookie issues deep in the auth framework (they finally released `@supabase/ssr` which is pretty decent, but we're still thinking about moving to handling auth on our side so we know and can debug the logic).
One thing to mention: although our requirements didn't quite fit Supabase and we ran into these issues, we weren't locked into their hosting. We were able to completely move off of it over the course of a few weeks, but continue using the self-hosted version. This is a huge benefit over something like Firebase or Amplify. We're pretty satisfied with Supabase as an open source project, but not as satisfied with Supabase hosting.
I think Supabase generally does good work, but I don't think they can be given credit for pgvector, if that's what you're indicating (I might have misread).
As I understand, Andrew Kane is the principal author of pgvector, and has worked on it for almost two years before Supabase added support for it.
See also https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/54 and https://github.com/supabase/postgres/pull/472.
In Vector support in PostgreSQL services to power AI-enabled applications(supabase ceo)
Supabase gives you a full Postgres database, we position ourselves as a Firebase alternative because we offer a few other bells-and-whistles. The database is just postgres[0] and so it has more compatibility than bit.io offered[1]
[0] https://github.com/supabase/postgres
[1] bit.io compatability: https://docs.bit.io/docs/supported-sql
In Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.iowe merged the pgvector PR about 2 weeks ago (https://github.com/supabase/postgres/pull/472). If you're missing anything for your CLI don't hesitate to reach out and we'll see if we can integrate it into the product (my email is in my profile)
as an aside, Pinecone looks great
In Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvectorHey HN, this one has a cool back story with it that shows the power of open source.
The author, Greg[0], wanted to use pgvector in a Postgres services, so he created a PR[1] in our Postgres repo. He then reached out and we decided it would be fun to collaborate on a project together, so he helped us build a "ChatGPT" interface for the supabase docs (which we will release tomorrow).
This article explains all the steps you'd take to implement the same functionality yourself.
I want to give a shout-out to pgvector too, it's a great extension [2]
[0] Greg: https://twitter.com/ggrdson
[1] pgvector PR: https://github.com/supabase/postgres/pull/472
[2] pgvector: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector
In Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector> entire solution from docker
We PR'd this into our docker-compose today [0]. We're always a bit slammed during Launch Week, so if you spot any problems let use know and we'll patch it up asap.
The extension is also deployed directly into our PG bundle [1] which is available in docker [2]
> The Gui for adding roles and tying them to postgres access is very slick with hasura. Is this done manually via SQL commands with supabase?
pg_graphql works with Postgres Row Level Security - we provide a GUI for this in our Dashboard, but they are also just native PG Policies, so you can write them in raw SQL. (I haven't tried Hasura so I don't know if this is a direct comparison.)
[0] https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/6138/files#diff-41...
[1] https://github.com/supabase/postgres
[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/supabase/postgres
In GraphQL is now available on SupabaseHi! I'm one of the contributors to the repo. Just to clarify, our Docker image [0] only contains the latest version of Postgres (13) and the common extensions listed out here [1]. All the other features such as this [2] and this [3] are only available in the AWS EC2 or DO droplet images. We've since updated our README to make that clearer :-)
You can still connect the DB with a PgBouncer image spun up in another container however. Unfortunately, I can't really recommend you which one since there doesn't seem to be an official Docker image for PgBouncer and I myself have never tried any of the existing ones out there. If you're looking to use PostgREST however, they do have an official Docker image that you can use over here [4].
[0]: https://hub.docker.com/r/supabase/postgres
[1]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres#extensions
[2]: https
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Hi! I'm one of the contributors to the repo. Just to clarify, our Docker image [0] only contains the latest version of Postgres (13) and the common extensions listed out here [1]. All the other features such as this [2] and this [3] are only available in the AWS EC2 or DO droplet images. We're currently updating the README to make that clearer :-)
[0]: https://hub.docker.com/r/supabase/postgres
[1]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres#extensions
[2]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres#enhanced-security
[3]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres#additional-goodies
In Show HN: Postgres Docker image with common extensionsHi! I'm one of the contributors to the repo. Primary reason was for uniformity. Initially, we built our EC2 and DO Droplet images with Ansible and our Docker image with a Dockerfile [0]. It became tedious over time as adding a new extension meant double the work since we had to write separate instructions for Ansible and the Dockerfile. Also, the Dockerfile itself started to become long-winded and cluttered with the amount of extensions that we were pumping in.
[0]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres/blob/0c5178588791d9472c...
In Show HN: Postgres Docker image with common extensionsI’m not accustomed to seeing a Docker image configured with Ansible. Can someone who is familiar with this pattern of using Ansible to configure a Docker image and commit the result [0] explain why this approach might be useful? Preference? Power of Ansible? Uniformity with non-Docker approach?
[0]: https://github.com/supabase/postgres/blob/de88f3dc1c80fbf7d1...
In Show HN: Postgres Docker image with common extensionsShow HN: Postgres Docker image with common extensions
130 points · Open discussionI switched to docker for most of my local dev these days, using this image for “pure Postgres with extensions” (PostGIS, pgRouting, pgTAP, plv8, wal2json):
https://github.com/supabase/postgres
It’s also bundled as an AWS image with pgbouncer
In Postgres.appUnder the hood we are just postgres. At the moment every user is on their own Postgres database with some additional plugins and defaults: https://github.com/supabase/postgres
We are already working on High Availability, and we'll give a very simple point-and-click for replication too (so you can create multiple DB's close to your customers/audiences)
In Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternativeWe[1] were a bit surprised that there wasn't a standard Postgres droplet on the Digital Ocean marketplace, so we decided support one. It's quite a long process, happy to explain it if anyone is thinking of doing something similar
This droplet comes pre-installed with a few useful plugins:
- Postgres 12
- PostGIS
- pgTAP
- pgAudit
- plv8 - Write in Javascript functions in Postgres.
- plpython3u - Python3 enabled by default. Write in Python functions in Postgres.
More info in the repo: https://github.com/supabase/postgres
[1] https://supabase.io
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