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Using Airtable + Postgres together - what's your setup?

  • December 3, 2025
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I'm working on a project where we use:

- Postgres for our production app database

- Airtable for our internal team (support, ops)

 

The challenge: keeping them in sync without writing fragile scripts.
Curious what others in this situation are doing:
1. Are you using Zapier? (I find it too slow)
2. Custom scripts with webhooks? (maintenance nightmare for us)
3. Some other tool I haven't discovered?
4. Did you just pick one and stick with it?

We're syncing about 5K records and need changes to propagate in under a minute ideally. Any experiences or recommendations appreciated!

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    GCheung
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    • GCheungCommunity Manager
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    • January 16, 2026

    Hey ​@aliamer, it looks like you already have a Support Case open with our Airtable Expert Team about this! Hopefully they can help you out, but I would recommend continuing to follow this thread as new community members tend to share answers and add knowledgeable responses regularly. 

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    • dora745nevels
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    • February 19, 2026

    For a sync that needs to be both robust and fast (under a minute), most teams are moving away from Zapier or manual scripts in favor of dedicated sync engines like Whalesync or Sequin. These tools are specifically designed to treat Airtable like a database, providing two-way synchronization with Postgres while handling API rate limits and schema mapping automatically. Alternatively, if your team has the engineering capacity, using an open-source data integration tool like Airbyte or a workflow engine like n8n offers more control and lower latency than Zapier without the "fragile script" overhead. Given your 5K record volume, these purpose-built connectors are usually the sweet spot for reliability and speed.

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