Migrating from the Cloudera Manager Embedded PostgreSQL Database Server to an External PostgreSQL Database

If you have already used the embedded PostgreSQL database and you are unable to redeploy a fresh cluster, you must migrate the embedded PostgreSQL database sever to an external PostgreSQL database.

Cloudera Manager provides an embedded PostgreSQL database server for trial and proof of concept deployments when creating a cluster. To remind users that this embedded database is not suitable for production, Cloudera Manager displays the banner text: "You are running Cloudera Manager in non-production mode, which uses an embedded PostgreSQL database. Switch to using a supported external database before moving into production."

If, however, you have already used the embedded database, and you are unable to redeploy a fresh cluster, then you must migrate to an external PostgreSQL database.