Documentation missing to use in combination with supabase for decoupled database?

[argo-uka]

Improve documentation

Describe the problem

supabase/all --> the main repo which runs everything (kong, postgrest, realtime....)
supabase/postgres --> this repo

It is not quite clear how to use this repo to use it with supabase/all for decoupled postreges db. This is the most featureful Postgres docker image, yet it is quite confusing how to connect it with supabase/all. The schema migrations files doesn't work, For example, the realtime schema has become _realtime ?

I still don't know how to merge all to decouple correctly. New to docker so it is quite a journey, I'm happy to learn. But there are a lot of moving parts and it is confusing.

Describe the improvement

• Please, provide a single docker-compose file for supabase/postgres, with the correct env vars to make it easily reachable from supabase/all compose file. In the current situation in supabase/postgres, in default branch there are 3 different docker-compose file each one ponting to different supabase/postgres. It is not quite clear which one is to run.
• Please remove the db service in the supabase/all docker-compose file.
• Please make the decoupled postgres the default getting started guide.

Hope to not sound arrogant.

[cristian-milea]

I find myself in the same situation. I've been struggling for 3 days now to have a decoupled Supabase db and it's very hard to follow instructions. It feels like some steps are missing and I have to come up with solutions.

If it is recommended to decouple the database, why is it so hard to configure it? :))

Love this project, but please make it easier to understand for newcomers.

[rienheuver]

I'm in this situation now as well. Trying to decouple the database and running the self-hosted Supabase, but so far no luck getting postgres up and running. Documentation on this repo is unclear to me to know how to get it running. I want to run it without Docker so my data is not gone when the machine is restart. How does this repo help me with that?