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Nice read. I run 5-6 projects on Supabase currently. I have also run into the local development / migration obstacles. It's otherwise been pretty great for our needs

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The CLI could use some love for sure. I think the migrations experience is also where I’ve felt the most pain. I will say, the CLI very heavily assumes that you are using the cloud product as the remote, which I guess is absolutely intentional (it’s a path to get users onto the product) but it was kind of annoying to figure that out halfway into a POC like I did. Don’t go in expecting you can point the CLI at some self hosted remote. It’s not possible without forking, making significant changes and rebuilding the CLI, at least at the time I was doing this a few months ago.

Hello, I work on CLI full time. Things have certainly improved over the last few months on using this tool for migrating self-hosted databases.

Currently all supabase db and migration commands support --db-url flag [1] which allows you to point the CLI to any Postgres database by a connection string.

If there's any use case I missed, please feel free to open a GitHub issue and I will look into it promptly.

[1] https://supabase.com/docs/reference/cli/supabase-db

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