Modern data teams want reliable, incremental, near real-time ingestion from PostgreSQL into Databricks Unity Catalog without building costly and fragile CDC jobs, custom pipelines, or manual ETL orchestration. That’s where Lakeflow Connect solves the issue by providing developers with a unified, low-overhead ingestion framework that handles extraction, CDC, schema syncing, and table creation inside Unity Catalog automatically.

This post walks through how I have set up Lakeflow Connect with PostgreSQL, including: