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<h1>Initializing a Database Backend<a class="headerlink" href="#initializing-a-database-backend" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>If you want to take a real test drive of Airflow, you should consider
setting up a real database backend and switching to the LocalExecutor.</p>
<p>As Airflow was built to interact with its metadata using the great SqlAlchemy
library, you should be able to use any database backend supported as a
SqlAlchemy backend. We recommend using <strong>MySQL</strong> or <strong>Postgres</strong>.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>We rely on more strict ANSI SQL settings for MySQL in order to have
sane defaults. Make sure to have specified <cite>explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1</cite>
in your my.cnf under <cite>[mysqld]</cite></p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>If you decide to use <strong>Postgres</strong>, we recommend using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">psycopg2</span></code>
driver and specifying it in your SqlAlchemy connection string.
Also note that since SqlAlchemy does not expose a way to target a
specific schema in the Postgres connection URI, you may
want to set a default schema for your role with a
command similar to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ALTER</span> <span class="pre">ROLE</span> <span class="pre">username</span> <span class="pre">SET</span> <span class="pre">search_path</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">airflow,</span> <span class="pre">foobar;</span></code></p>
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<p>Once you’ve setup your database to host Airflow, you’ll need to alter the
SqlAlchemy connection string located in your configuration file
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow.cfg</span></code>. You should then also change the “executor”
setting to use “LocalExecutor”, an executor that can parallelize task
instances locally.</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># initialize the database</span>
airflow initdb
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