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Introduction

The easiest way to get started with Realtime is to sign up to our Alpha.

If you want to host your own Realtime server, this document will help you to get set up. You have options to host using Docker, AWS, DigitalOcean, or build from source.

Prerequisites

• Postgres 10+
• Environment variables to set:
  • DB_HOST: defaults to localhost
  • DB_NAME: defaults to postgres
  • DB_USER: defaults to postgres
  • DB_PASSWORD: defaults to postgres
  • DB_PORT: defaults to 5432

Setting Up Replication

For us to receive the streaming data, we need the database to have a free replication slot:

-- set the replication to "logical"

ALTER SYSTEM SET wal_level = logical;

-- We need at least one replication slot to subscribe to

ALTER SYSTEM SET max_replication_slots = 5;

-- Set up the publication for us to listen to

CREATE PUBLICATION supabase_realtime FOR ALL TABLES;

Optional

If you want to receive the old record (previous values) on UPDATE and DELETE, you can set the REPLICA IDENTITY to FULL like this:

ALTER TABLE your_table REPLICA IDENTITY FULL;

This has to be set for each table.