cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1374138

I’m thinking about setting up my own (bare metal) Lemmy instance to play around with it, but it seems to require PostgreSQL. Everything else on my system uses MySQL, and I don’t really want to run 2 separate database services. I guess I would also be fine with using an SQLite file, but that’s not ideal.

Has anyone managed to set up a Lemmy instance with MySQL instead of PostgreSQL? Are you aware of any PostgreSQL to MySQL or SQLite compatibility layers?

  • sinnerdotbin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Only PostgreSQL at the moment. I also don’t believe it currently supports SSL connection to Postgres so you’ll want to run it on the same machine or have a tunnel to your DB.

    There is effectively zero way you’ll get it running on anything else without significant code change.