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by tjsavage511 1171 days ago
(PM at Retool) For self-hosted deployments, you can point an existing Postgres DB (v14.3 or later) to Retool Database - though it’s more specifically designed to quickly evolve a new database. For cloud customers, we currently don’t support pointing your own database but it’s something we’re thinking about!

No custom extensions - we wanted to make it a lightweight and effective layer on top of Postgres. So it’s just a vanilla Postgres database under the hood. The UI gives you access to a lot of the power of Postgres, and for anything that you can’t do via the UI you can use the connection string directly: e.g. create triggers, create compound unique keys, etc.