Hello,

Im planning on running a postgresql server on my k3s cluster using the bitnami/postgresql helmchart & container image. I already set it up for testing and it works really well.

But since newer versions of immich are moving to VectorChord I would like to install this extention so i can move my immich database to this postgresql server.

I already tried to search how i should/could install an extention in the bitnami/postgresql image but I haven’t found something usefull to me. Im not a postgresql expert so maybe i missed some stuff :).

Does someone have experience with this or know in which direction i should like i would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time and have a wonderfull day!

EDIT: Could someone explain me why im getting downvotes for this post? Is the way i wrote it not good? Is it a bad question? Is the software i mentioned unpopular?

  • Hercules@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thanks for your response, could you explain what the advantages of an operator are in this example?

    And what is the matter with the licensing? I never heard this issue before.

    The link that you attached looks like it is for the pgvecto.rs extention instead of vectorchord.

    • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Some operators for postgres is free for non commercial use, so its not truly open source even though its source available, one is crunchydata.

      pgvecto.rs v0.4.0 I assumed was just not renamed. They have one for vectorchord too

      Operators are good ways to support applications in CLI that aren’t easy to setup in a cluster by default. You can make these databases redundant by setting replica higher than 1 and applying it, operator copies the db data and makes a new replica. It also helps with backups and restoring too.

      • Hercules@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Oh alright, thanks a lot for your explanation. I learned a lot, im going with the operator route!

        Thank you for your help!

        • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yeah operators are extremely nice. I used bitnami images before operator in HA setup and it would fail all the time. Using operators I have like 12 postgres DBs and 0 issues for well over a year.

          Btw, self hosting communities tend to shy away from k8s due to complexity and generally enterprises use it so less selfhosters use it. I wanted redundancy and to keep me learning tech, less crazy people tend to go with proxmox for clustering in these communities.