README.rst

# PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch sync

• [PGSync](https://pgsync.com) is a middleware for syncing data from [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org) to [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack).
• It allows you to keep [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org) as your source of truth data source and

expose structured denormalized documents in [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack).

### Requirements

• [Python](https://www.python.org) 3.7+
• [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org) 9.6+
• [Redis](https://redis.io) 3.1.0
• [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack) 6.3.1+
• [SQlAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org) 1.3.4+

### Postgres setup

Enable [logical decoding](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logicaldecoding.html) in your Postgres setting.

• You also need to set up two parameters in your Postgres config postgresql.conf

  `wal_level = logical`

  `max_replication_slots = 1`

### Installation

You can install PGSync from [PyPI](https://pypi.org):

$ pip install pgsync

### Config

Create a schema for the application named e.g schema.json

[Example schema](https://github.com/toluaina/pgsync/blob/main/examples/airbnb/schema.json)

Example spec

[
    {
        "database": "[database name]",
        "index": "[elasticsearch index]",
        "nodes": {
            "table": "[table A]",
            "schema": "[table A schema]",
            "columns": [
                "column 1 from table A",
                "column 2 from table A",
                ... additional columns
            ],
            "children": [
                {
                    "table": "[table B with relationship to table A]",
                    "schema": "[table B schema]",
                    "columns": [
                      "column 1 from table B",
                      "column 2 from table B",
                      ... additional columns
                    ],
                    "relationship": {
                        "variant": "object",
                        "type": "one_to_many"
                    },
                    ...
                },
                {
                    ... additional children
                }
            ]
        }
    }
]

### Environment variables

Setup environment variables required for the application

SCHEMA='/path/to/schema.json'

ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=localhost ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9200

PG_HOST=localhost PG_USER=i-am-root # this must be a postgres superuser or replication user PG_PORT=5432 PG_PASSWORD=*****

REDIS_HOST=redis REDIS_PORT=6379 REDIS_DB=0 REDIS_AUTH=*****

### Running

Bootstrap the database (one time only)

• $ bootstrap --config schema.json

Run pgsync as a daemon

• $ pgsync --config schema.json --daemon