Postgres for Team

Agno supports using PostgreSQL as a storage backend for Teams using the PostgresDb class.

Usage

Install dependencies:

uv pip install agno openai ddgs sqlalchemy psycopg

Run PgVector

Install docker desktop and run PgVector on port 5532 using:

docker run -d \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=ai \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=ai \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ai \
  -e PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql \
  -v pgvolume:/var/lib/postgresql \
  -p 5532:5432 \
  --name pgvector \
  agnohq/pgvector:18

postgres_for_team.py

"""
Run: `uv pip install agno openai ddgs sqlalchemy psycopg` to install the dependencies
"""

from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.postgres import PostgresDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.team import Team
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools
from pydantic import BaseModel

db_url = "postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai"
db = PostgresDb(db_url=db_url)

class Article(BaseModel):
    title: str
    summary: str
    reference_links: List[str]

hn_researcher = Agent(
    name="HackerNews Researcher",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    role="Gets top stories from hackernews.",
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
)

web_searcher = Agent(
    name="Web Searcher",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    role="Searches the web for information on a topic",
    tools=[WebSearchTools()],
    add_datetime_to_context=True,
)

hn_team = Team(
    name="HackerNews Team",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    members=[hn_researcher, web_searcher],
    db=db,
    instructions=[
        "First, search hackernews for what the user is asking about.",
        "Then, ask the web searcher to search for each story to get more information.",
        "Finally, provide a thoughtful and engaging summary.",
    ],
    output_schema=Article,
    markdown=True,
    show_members_responses=True,
)

hn_team.print_response("Write an article about the top 2 stories on hackernews")

Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
id	Optional[str]	-	The ID of the database instance. UUID by default.
db_url	Optional[str]	-	The database URL to connect to.
db_engine	Optional[Engine]	-	The SQLAlchemy database engine to use.
db_schema	Optional[str]	-	The database schema to use.
session_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store Agent, Team and Workflow sessions.
memory_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store memories.
metrics_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store metrics.
eval_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store evaluation runs data.
knowledge_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store knowledge content.
culture_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store cultural knowledge.
traces_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store traces.
spans_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store spans.
versions_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store schema versions.
components_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store components.
component_configs_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store component configurations.
component_links_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store links between components.
learnings_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store learnings.
schedules_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store cron schedules.
schedule_runs_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store schedule run history.
approvals_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store human approval requests.
auth_tokens_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store OAuth tokens for external services.
service_accounts_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store service accounts.
mcp_oauth_clients_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store MCP OAuth client registrations.
mcp_oauth_transactions_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store MCP OAuth transactions.
mcp_oauth_codes_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store MCP OAuth authorization codes.
mcp_oauth_refresh_tokens_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store MCP OAuth refresh tokens.
mcp_oauth_keys_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store MCP OAuth signing keys.
create_schema	bool	True	Whether to create the database schema if it doesn't exist. Set to False when the schema is managed externally.