Docker Postgres 8

This is a docker image used to run a Postgres version 8 docker image for local testing. Ideally to be used with docker-compose.

This image is not production-ready. It is for local testing purposes only. Use at your own risk.

The initial use case for this was to test connecting to an Amazon AWS Redshift cluster. Redshift runs Postgres version 8.0.2 with some modifications, so images tagged 8.0.2 and redshift are provided (latest currently pulls 8.0.2).

Environment Variable	Default
POSTGRES_USER	postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD
POSTGRES_DATABASE	postgres
PGDATA	/usr/local/pgsql/data (volume)

Copy this snippet into your docker-compose.yml file:

db:
  image: foundryai/postgres8
  environment:
    POSTGRES_USER: docker
    POSTGRES_PASSWORD: docker
    POSTGRES_DATABASE: docker
  ports:
    - 5432:5432
  volumes:
    - ./data:/usr/local/psql/data

Alternatively, run this command to run the container:

docker run -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_USER=docker -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=docker -e POSTGRES_DATABASE=docker foundryai/postgres8

Credits

This image is based on Patrick Menlove's docker-postgres8