diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index e3f9200..ddd138e 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,55 @@
 services:
+  postgres:
+    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg16
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_DB: "${POSTGRES_DB:-duriin}"
+      POSTGRES_USER: "${POSTGRES_USER:-duriin}"
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:?Set POSTGRES_PASSWORD in .env before starting PostgreSQL}"
+    command:
+      - postgres
+      - -c
+      - shared_buffers=128MB
+      - -c
+      - work_mem=4MB
+      - -c
+      - maintenance_work_mem=64MB
+      - -c
+      - effective_cache_size=256MB
+      - -c
+      - max_connections=40
+    volumes:
+      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+    mem_limit: 512m
+    cpus: "0.50"
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U $$POSTGRES_USER -d $$POSTGRES_DB"]
+      interval: 10s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 12
+    networks:
+      - nginx_proxy_manager_default
+
+  postgres-migrate:
+    profiles: [migration]
+    build:
+      context: .
+      provenance: false
+    command: node scripts/migrate-sqlite-to-postgres.js
+    env_file: .env
+    volumes:
+      - ./config.json:/app/config.json:ro
+      - ./data:/data:ro
+    environment:
+      DATABASE_URL: "postgresql://${POSTGRES_USER:-duriin}:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}@postgres:5432/${POSTGRES_DB:-duriin}"
+      SQLITE_ARCHIVE_PATH: /data/archive.sqlite
+      SQLITE_INTELLIGENCE_PATH: /data/intelligence.sqlite
+    depends_on:
+      postgres:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    networks:
+      - nginx_proxy_manager_default
+
   api:
     build:
       context: .
@@ -155,3 +206,6 @@ services:
 networks:
   nginx_proxy_manager_default:
     external: true
+
+volumes:
+  postgres_data:
diff --git a/docs/postgres-migration.md b/docs/postgres-migration.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..18e0954
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/postgres-migration.md
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# PostgreSQL migration
+
+The Compose stack includes PostgreSQL with a hard 512 MB container limit and
+conservative in-server memory settings. Set `POSTGRES_PASSWORD` in the server
+`.env`, then start it with `docker compose up -d postgres`.
+
+Run the resumable logical copy with:
+
+```sh
+docker compose --profile migration run --rm postgres-migrate
+```
+
+It copies archive data to the `archive` schema and autonomy/intelligence data
+to the `intelligence` schema. Each table is count-verified and progress is
+persisted in each schema's `_migration_progress` table, so restarting resumes
+at the last committed batch. SQLite vec0 internal tables are derived indexes;
+their canonical embedding data is migrated from `article_embedding_store`.
+
+The application is intentionally not switched by this migration alone: it has
+SQLite-specific synchronous query and transaction code in the autonomy workers
+and admin routes. Pointing those processes at PostgreSQL before that code is
+ported would make the live system unreliable. Keep SQLite mounted until a
+separate verified runtime cutover is complete.
diff --git a/scripts/migrate-sqlite-to-postgres.js b/scripts/migrate-sqlite-to-postgres.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21a7fd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/migrate-sqlite-to-postgres.js
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/*
+ * Resumable logical migration for Duriin's two SQLite databases.
+ *
+ * It deliberately copies tables, not SQLite files: PostgreSQL receives usable
+ * relational data in `archive` and `intelligence` schemas.  SQLite vec0
+ * implementation tables are indexes, not source-of-truth data; the canonical
+ * article_embedding_store is copied and can be used to rebuild pgvector later.
+ */
+const Database = require('better-sqlite3');
+const { Pool } = require('pg');
+
+const archivePath = process.env.SQLITE_ARCHIVE_PATH || '/data/archive.sqlite';
+const intelligencePath = process.env.SQLITE_INTELLIGENCE_PATH || '/data/intelligence.sqlite';
+const connectionString = process.env.DATABASE_URL;
+if (!connectionString) throw new Error('DATABASE_URL is required');
+
+const pool = new Pool({ connectionString, max: 2 });
+const BATCH_SIZE = Math.max(1, Number(process.env.POSTGRES_MIGRATION_BATCH_SIZE) || 200);
+const DERIVED_SQLITE_TABLES = new Set([
+  'article_embeddings', 'article_embeddings_chunks', 'article_embeddings_info',
+  'article_embeddings_rowids', 'article_embeddings_vector_chunks00',
+]);
+
+function quote(name) { return `"${String(name).replaceAll('"', '""')}"`; }
+function pgType(sqliteType) {
+  const type = String(sqliteType || '').toUpperCase();
+  if (type.includes('INT')) return 'BIGINT';
+  if (type.includes('REAL') || type.includes('FLOA') || type.includes('DOUB')) return 'DOUBLE PRECISION';
+  if (type.includes('BLOB')) return 'BYTEA';
+  return 'TEXT';
+}
+
+async function ensureSchema(client, schema) {
+  await client.query(`CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS ${quote(schema)}`);
+  await client.query(`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ${quote(schema)}.${quote('_migration_progress')} (
+    table_name TEXT PRIMARY KEY, source_rows BIGINT NOT NULL, copied_rows BIGINT NOT NULL,
+    completed_at TIMESTAMPTZ, updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
+  )`);
+}
+
+function sourceTables(sqlite) {
+  return sqlite.prepare(`SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name NOT LIKE 'sqlite_%' ORDER BY name`).all()
+    .map((row) => row.name).filter((name) => !DERIVED_SQLITE_TABLES.has(name));
+}
+
+async function createTable(client, schema, sqlite, table) {
+  const columns = sqlite.prepare(`PRAGMA table_info(${quote(table)})`).all();
+  if (!columns.length) return null;
+  const primary = columns.filter((column) => column.pk).sort((a, b) => a.pk - b.pk).map((column) => quote(column.name));
+  const definitions = columns.map((column) => `${quote(column.name)} ${pgType(column.type)}${column.notnull ? ' NOT NULL' : ''}`);
+  if (primary.length) definitions.push(`PRIMARY KEY (${primary.join(', ')})`);
+  await client.query(`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ${quote(schema)}.${quote(table)} (${definitions.join(', ')})`);
+  return columns;
+}
+
+async function copyTable(client, schema, sqlite, table, columns) {
+  const sourceRows = Number(sqlite.prepare(`SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM ${quote(table)}`).get().count);
+  const progress = await client.query(`SELECT copied_rows, source_rows, completed_at FROM ${quote(schema)}.${quote('_migration_progress')} WHERE table_name=$1`, [table]);
+  const prior = progress.rows[0];
+  if (prior?.completed_at && Number(prior.source_rows) === sourceRows) {
+    console.log(`[migrate] ${schema}.${table}: already verified (${sourceRows})`);
+    return;
+  }
+  // Tables with an integer primary key are copied by key. Other tables use a
+  // deterministic row offset and are still restartable at batch boundaries.
+  const key = columns.find((column) => column.pk === 1 && /INT/i.test(column.type));
+  let cursor = key ? Number(prior?.copied_rows || 0) : 0;
+  const names = columns.map((column) => column.name);
+  const insert = `INSERT INTO ${quote(schema)}.${quote(table)} (${names.map(quote).join(', ')}) VALUES (${names.map((_, i) => `$${i + 1}`).join(', ')}) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING`;
+  console.log(`[migrate] ${schema}.${table}: ${sourceRows} source rows`);
+  while (true) {
+    const rows = key
+      ? sqlite.prepare(`SELECT ${names.map(quote).join(', ')} FROM ${quote(table)} WHERE ${quote(key.name)} > ? ORDER BY ${quote(key.name)} LIMIT ?`).all(cursor, BATCH_SIZE)
+      : sqlite.prepare(`SELECT ${names.map(quote).join(', ')} FROM ${quote(table)} LIMIT ? OFFSET ?`).all(BATCH_SIZE, cursor);
+    if (!rows.length) break;
+    await client.query('BEGIN');
+    try {
+      for (const row of rows) await client.query(insert, names.map((name) => row[name] ?? null));
+      cursor = key ? Number(rows[rows.length - 1][key.name]) : cursor + rows.length;
+      await client.query(`INSERT INTO ${quote(schema)}.${quote('_migration_progress')} (table_name, source_rows, copied_rows, updated_at)
+        VALUES ($1,$2,$3,NOW()) ON CONFLICT (table_name) DO UPDATE SET source_rows=EXCLUDED.source_rows, copied_rows=EXCLUDED.copied_rows, updated_at=NOW()`, [table, sourceRows, cursor]);
+      await client.query('COMMIT');
+    } catch (error) { await client.query('ROLLBACK'); throw error; }
+    process.stdout.write(`\r[migrate] ${schema}.${table}: ${Math.min(cursor, sourceRows)}/${sourceRows}`);
+  }
+  const target = await client.query(`SELECT COUNT(*)::bigint AS count FROM ${quote(schema)}.${quote(table)}`);
+  if (Number(target.rows[0].count) < sourceRows) throw new Error(`${schema}.${table}: target count is short`);
+  await client.query(`UPDATE ${quote(schema)}.${quote('_migration_progress')} SET completed_at=NOW(), source_rows=$2, copied_rows=$2 WHERE table_name=$1`, [table, sourceRows]);
+  console.log(`\r[migrate] ${schema}.${table}: verified ${sourceRows}`);
+}
+
+async function migrateDatabase(client, schema, file) {
+  const sqlite = new Database(file, { readonly: true });
+  try {
+    await ensureSchema(client, schema);
+    for (const table of sourceTables(sqlite)) {
+      const columns = await createTable(client, schema, sqlite, table);
+      if (columns) await copyTable(client, schema, sqlite, table, columns);
+    }
+  } finally { sqlite.close(); }
+}
+
+(async () => {
+  const client = await pool.connect();
+  try {
+    await client.query('CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector');
+    await migrateDatabase(client, 'archive', archivePath);
+    await migrateDatabase(client, 'intelligence', intelligencePath);
+    console.log('[migrate] SQLite logical data verified in PostgreSQL. SQLite remains the live source until application cutover.');
+  } finally { client.release(); await pool.end(); }
+})().catch((error) => { console.error('[migrate] fatal:', error); process.exit(1); });