dbdev

dbdev is a package manager for Postgres trusted language extensions (TLE).

• Search for packages on database.dev.
• Documentation: supabase.github.io/dbdev/
• Publish your own Extension: supabase.github.io/dbdev/publish-extension/
• Read the dbdev release blog post

Warning

Restoring a logical backup of a database with a TLE installed can fail. For this reason, dbdev should only be used with databases with physical backups enabled.

Usage

Users primarily interact with the registry using the dbdev SQL client. Once present, packages can be installed as follows:

-- Load the package from the package index
select dbdev.install('olirice-index_advisor');

Where olirice is the handle of the publisher and index_advisor is the name of the package.

Once installed, packages are visible in PostgreSQL as extensions. At that point they can be enabled with standard Postgres commands i.e. the create extension

To improve reproducibility, we recommend always specifying the package version in your create extension statements.

For example:

-- Enable the extension
create extension "olirice-index_advisor"
    version '0.1.0';

Which creates all tables/indexes/functions/etc specified by the extension.

Install the Client in Postgres

The in-database SQL client for the package registry is named dbdev. You can bootstrap the client with:

/*---------------------
---- install dbdev ----
----------------------
Requires:
  - pg_tle: https://github.com/aws/pg_tle
  - pgsql-http: https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-http
*/
create extension if not exists http with schema extensions;
create extension if not exists pg_tle;
drop extension if exists "supabase-dbdev";
select pgtle.uninstall_extension_if_exists('supabase-dbdev');
select
    pgtle.install_extension(
        'supabase-dbdev',
        resp.contents ->> 'version',
        'PostgreSQL package manager',
        resp.contents ->> 'sql'
    )
from http(
    (
        'GET',
        'https://api.database.dev/rest/v1/'
        || 'package_versions?select=sql,version'
        || '&package_name=eq.supabase-dbdev'
        || '&order=version.desc'
        || '&limit=1',
        array[
            ('apiKey', 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJzdXBhYmFzZSIsInJlZiI6InhtdXB0cHBsZnZpaWZyYndtbXR2Iiwicm9sZSI6ImFub24iLCJpYXQiOjE2ODAxMDczNzIsImV4cCI6MTk5NTY4MzM3Mn0.z2CN0mvO2No8wSi46Gw59DFGCTJrzM0AQKsu_5k134s')::http_header
        ],
        null,
        null
    )
) x,
lateral (
    select
        ((row_to_json(x) -> 'content') #>> '{}')::json -> 0
) resp(contents);
create extension "supabase-dbdev";
select dbdev.install('supabase-dbdev');
drop extension if exists "supabase-dbdev";
create extension "supabase-dbdev";

With the client ready, search for packages on database.dev and install them

select dbdev.install('handle-package_name');
create extension "handle-package_name"
    schema 'public'
    version '1.2.3';

Developers

The supabase/dbdev repository hosts the source code for both the database.dev package registry and its accompanying website. It also hosts the work-in-progress CLI for authors manage their packages.

Package Registry

The package registry supabase/, is a Supabase project where accounts, organizations, and packages are normalized into database tables. For more info of the registry, see the architecture section

Requires:

• Supabase CLI
• docker

supabase start

which returns a set of endpoints for each service

supabase local development setup is running.

         API URL: http://localhost:54321
     GraphQL URL: http://localhost:54321/graphql/v1
          DB URL: postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:54322/postgres
      Studio URL: http://localhost:54323
    Inbucket URL: http://localhost:54324
      JWT secret: SECRET
        anon key: KEY
service_role key: KEY

The API URL and anon key values will be used in the next section to setup environment variables.

Website (database.dev)

The website/ directory contains a Next.js project, which serves as the visual interface for users to interact with the registry.

Requires:

• node 14+

Copy .env.example file to .env.local:

cp .env.example .env.local

Edit the .env.local file with your favourite text editor to set the environment variables NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL="<Value of API URL>"
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY="<Value of anon key>"

Start the development environment:

cd website
npm install
npm run dev

Navigate to http://localhost:3000

CLI

Coming soon in the cli/ directory

Architecture

• The core tables are located in the app schema.
• The public API is located in the public schema.