Looks super snazzy:
Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support?
How's it work under the hood? Custom extensions?
Retool Database
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#12Looks super snazzy: Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support? How's it work under the hood? Custom extensions?
Just helping OP keep up: https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-database-self-hosted
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#13Are there good video resources for Retool in general, I looked at some youtube videos and found mostly creating a basic database view with a form. Any more substantial examples?
Hey there! We are actually working on a video course for Retool that covers more of the breadth of the platform. Definitely more to come. One more substantial example we released recently is this bookstore application, which uses about every part of the platform [1]. It's the app demoed at this virtual event, Retool Developer Day [2].
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#14Looks super snazzy: Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support? How's it work under the hood? Custom extensions?
Curious to know your use case. Were you hoping to use Retool Database with your existing Postgres as a schema builder or as a data editor via their spreadsheet UI?
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#15I think Retool is awesome - though last time I think I didn't see a way to allow clients to have access to certain views. We have some databases we'd love to generate views for client access, but we don't need them to have full blown accounts. Is that something on the horizon?
I wish retool had two things, more granular permissions for users on team plan. right now this is reserved for enterprise. I can not simply share only specific apps to certain users.
I wish to be able to pay yearly. We are on a hosted solution.
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#16Looks super snazzy: Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support? How's it work under the hood? Custom extensions?
(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.
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#17I think Retool is awesome - though last time I think I didn't see a way to allow clients to have access to certain views. We have some databases we'd love to generate views for client access, but we don't need them to have full blown accounts. Is that something on the horizon?
I wish retool had two things, more granular permissions for users on team plan. right now this is reserved for enterprise. I can not simply share only specific apps to certain users. I wish to be able to pay yearly. We are on a hosted solution.
(Retool employee here.) Based on how we see companies using the different plans, we have a couple of delineations between the monthly and yearly plans. Happy to chat with you about your specific use case and discuss pricing/plan options! I’m tommy@retool.com
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#18Looks cool, I'm just wondering how this compares to Google Tables?
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#19Looks cool, I'm just wondering how this compares to Google Tables?
Google tables is similar to Airtable, they are proprietary databases. You cannot query them and interface with them easily from another application like a regular database.
Retool Database has that friendly table UI but also give you the full query capability via SQL (we even give you the Postgres connection string that let you connect to it externally with your favorite tool).
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#20I've been using Retool Database inside a Retool Workflow and I find my update queries don't seem to resolve in the workflow, although I can see the updates in the table. I've just chalked it up to beta status, but since y'all are here I thought I might ask if this is a known issue or if I should reach out to support.
Edit to add: really killer addition to the product, keep up the great work