[Enhancement] Remove postgres from GVM.

[rudnypc]

It would be nice to have a separate postgres and GVM container.

[austinsonger]

@rudnypc please describe the use case and how this would benefit the community.

[rudnypc]

Some companies have a cluster of databases or databases as services. We also have a number of other benefits.

[Dexus]

I think we can make it happen, but the main problem will be that the binaries will only get the headers for the current supported postgres of the container, so if you run different postgres versions you can run into truble.

So all in all, we can make the postgres optional, but then we will not support anything that will have todo with postgres and DB at all.

Is this worth it?

[schewara]

Hi. To add some additional info from my perspective.

We are running a standardized PostgreSQL Container Setup which includes all the monitoring, backup, restore scripts and utilities. For example, we're using pgBackRest backing up the DB to S3 and getting this functionality into the current setup would be quite cumbersome. For us it would also be a big benefit to be able to reuse this setup, instead of reinventing the wheel for some services.

The limitations on a specific PostgreSQL Version should be less of a problem (at least in our case) as long as it is documented somewhere.