Crunchy Data

Crunchy is a Postgres hosting provider.

Electric and Crunchy

You can use Electric with Crunchy Bridge, their managed cloud Postgres product.

[!Tip] Need context? See the Deployment guide for more details.

Deploy Postgres

Sign up to Crunchy Bridge and go through the steps to create a cluster.

Go to the "Connection" tab, select "URL", set the role to "postgres (superuser)" and copy the connection string.

You can then run Electric with this connection string as the DATABASE_URL, e.g.:

docker run -it \
    -e "DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:****@p.YOUR_CLUSTER_ID.db.postgresbridge.com:5432/postgres" \
    electricsql/electric:latest

You can also use the postgres superuser to create other users with the REPLICATION role, e.g.:

CREATE ROLE electric WITH REPLICATION LOGIN PASSWORD '...';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE "postgres" to electric;

You can then connect as the new electric user.

[!Tip] Need somewhere to host Electric? If you need somewhere to deploy Electric then Crunchy works well with Render.