A docker compose file to quickly run a Postgresql instance on localhost, using tmpfs (ram) as main data storage. Optionally loads *.sql files in docker-entrypoint-initdb.d into newly created database. This is meant for fast development and NOT production.

postgres-db-on-tmpfs.yml

version: "3"
services:
  db:
    image: postgres:10
    restart: "no"
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    volumes:
      - ./docker/db/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d:ro
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: some-user
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: some-passowrd
      POSTGRES_DB: some-db-name