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Migrate Open WebUI from SQLite to PostgreSQL

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Migrate tool for Open WebUI - SQLite to Postgres

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Migrate from using SQLite (default) in Open WebUI to use Postgres.

Inspiration from: https://github.com/taylorwilsdon/open-webui-postgres-migration, one of the big differences is that this migration require no input, configurable with environment variables, you just run the script, no input needed.

This so you can automate the process, instead of manual input.

Install

You can copy the script to you environment and run it, or you could install it:

pip install open-webui-sqlite-migration

Configuration

Before anything else, backup you SQLite database and keep it in a safe place.

Needed environment variables:

  • SQLITE_DB_PATH - exact path to your open webui db, like: /app/backend/data/webui.db.
  • MIGRATE_DATABASE_URL - normally the same you should use for DATABASE_URL, like postgresql://user:pass@postgres:5432/openwebui

Also you need to start Open WebUI with DATABASE_URL, so needed tables are created. After that, you remove that variable so you go back to use SQLite. When using SQLite, you run the migration script, then you stop Open WebUI, and then again set DATABASE_URL. If everything now runs smoothly, you can remove the SQLite database. Keep a backup of the database until you are really sure that all things are working as they should.

While you always should have a backup of your SQLite database before starting, the migration itself is done on a copy of the SQLite database, to avoid locking etc.

/tmp needs to be writeable during the migration.

Migration

  • Make sure you backup your SQLite database, before doing anything.
  • Set SQLITE_DB_PATH and MIGRATE_DATABASE_URL
  • Start Open WebUI with SQLite if it's not running (info logs should say: Context impl SQLiteImpl).
  • Stop Open WebUI.
  • Start Open WebUI with DATABASE_URL set. Needed tables should be created.
  • Stop Open WebUI.
  • Remove ENV variable DATABASE_URL, start Open WebUI.
  • Run open-webui-migrate-sqlite --dry-run
  • Check output, if what is you expected, go to next step.
  • Have you really done a backup of your SQLite database?
  • Run open-webui-migrate-sqlite
  • If all succeeds, restart Open WebUI with DATABASE_URL set.
  • You should now be running Open WebUI with Postgres (if you have info logs from Open WebUI, you should see Context impl PostgresqlImpl).

Development

Poetry is used.

poetry install

Release:

Make sure to change version, then:

poetry build
poetry publish

Tests

export SQLITE_DB_PATH="/web.db"
export MIGRATE_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:pass@postgres:5432/openwebui
poetry run pytest

Coverage

poetry run pytest --cov

Linting

poetry run pylint $(git ls-files '*.py')

License

MIT

Copyright (c) Digitalist Open Cloud.

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