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Thomas

06/13/2023, 9:45 AM
Hi all, I have read on the documentation that "lakeFS requires a PostgreSQL database to synchronise actions on your repositories". What type of actions are we talking about? I thought that actions relating to data (like commit, merge, rollback...) were stored in the form of metadata directly on the s3?
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Robin Moffatt

06/13/2023, 10:26 AM
you can read about the KV store here: https://docs.lakefs.io/understand/how/kv.html
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Barak Amar

06/13/2023, 10:44 AM
Committed metadata information and the data you upload through lakeFS will be kept in the object-store. Uncommitted metadata information and repository information will be kept in the database - any KV as @Robin Moffatt referenced should work.
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Thomas

06/13/2023, 11:22 AM
Thanks for the clarification.