PocketBase as a standalone database server
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The pocketbase driver no longer embeds PocketBase: Warp keeps its data as
PocketBase collections on a server of its own and reaches it only through
the REST API, the way the postgres driver reaches PostgreSQL.
database.connection_string is the server's URL, and Warp signs in as the
superuser in WARP_PB_SUPERUSER_EMAIL / WARP_PB_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD (or a
WARP_PB_SUPERUSER_FILE of the two).

Every SQL table is a superuser-only collection of the same name and
columns, created by warp migrate. Reads go through PocketBase's SQL
endpoint with the SQL drivers' queries, via a read-only database/sql
driver that inlines arguments, moves long ones into warp_params and pages
past 1000 rows. Writes are record operations in batch requests under one
write lock in the Warp process. Media is a protected file field in
warp_media, local or in the S3 bucket Warp writes into PocketBase's
settings. Search matches word prefixes with LIKE. The storage tests run
against an in-process PocketBase and pass as on SQLite.

Docker: the PocketBase stacks get a pocketbase service running
tajniak81/pocketbase-docker-root (WARP_PB_IMAGE), with a pb-data volume
and its admin UI on loopback; the AIO images run that PocketBase binary
as a process beside the homeserver, making up a superuser when none is
set. The .env examples, READMEs, docs and warp.yaml.example follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `postgres` | production | Several connections, so reads and writes run side by side. |
| `sqlite` | development, a single user, a small server | One writer. Everything is one file plus `media.base_path`. |
| `pocketbase` | an "appliance": one binary, one data directory | The sqlite driver's tables inside an embedded [PocketBase](https://pocketbase.io) app's `data.db`, written through PocketBase's own single-writer connection. Media goes into PocketBase's filesystem, which can be an S3 bucket (`database.pocketbase.s3`). |
| `pocketbase` | a [PocketBase](https://pocketbase.io) server you want to see and manage the data in | Warp's tables as PocketBase collections on a PocketBase server of its own (0.40 or later), reached only through its REST API. Media goes into PocketBase's storage, which can be an S3 bucket (`database.pocketbase.s3`). |
The pocketbase driver is the SQLite schema on the SQLite engine, so it is
at parity with sqlite by construction, and the storage tests run against
both. What it adds is PocketBase around it: its system tables in the same
database, its `auxiliary.db` for its own logs, and its filesystem
abstraction for media. Warp does not serve PocketBase's admin UI or API;
the app is reachable from Go through `pocketbase.Database.App()` for
features that want it later. Back up the whole data directory.
The pocketbase driver connects to PocketBase the way the postgres driver
connects to PostgreSQL: `database.connection_string` is the server's URL,
and Warp signs in as the superuser in `database.pocketbase`. Every table
the SQL drivers have is a superuser-only collection of the same name and
columns, so the PocketBase admin UI shows Warp's accounts, rooms and events
as records. Warp creates and updates the collections itself (`warp
migrate`), reads them through PocketBase's SQL endpoint with the same
queries the SQL drivers run, and writes them as record operations in batch
requests, each one a transaction. It turns batch requests on in
PocketBase's settings at startup.
Writes go through one lock in the Warp process, so one Warp server per
PocketBase, and every database call is an HTTP request: expect it to be
slower than PostgreSQL. Search has no full-text engine behind it; it
matches the start of words, case-insensitively. The storage tests run
against a real PocketBase. Back up PocketBase's whole `pb_data`.
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