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From Peter Palka
Subject Re: User account and settings storage in other database than SQLite
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In response to Re: User account and settings storage in other database than SQLite  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Hi Dave,

According to SQLite load: just speculation.

According to not supporting Postgres user data storage in Postgres client: well, in this case the container looks more like nice flavour rather than reliable solution. Every time I will kill the docker container or there will be failure the user data will be lost. It will be good to at least mount SQLite user database as an external volume (and mention it in docker hub).

To make it production ready it should be able to handle connection to external database.

Regards,
Peter

On 3 May 2018 at 18:36, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
Hi

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:50 AM, Peter Palka <ppalka@cmcrc.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'd like to deploy pgAdmin in cloud container environment and use PostgreSQL database as users' data storage. The reasons are:
  • we have +30 users that are heavily using pgAdmin
  • our PostgreSQL cloud database has higher stability level than our cloud container infrastructure
  • it will be much easier to scale pgAdmin in the future if we will use container-independent database
SQLite is not designed to handle heavy traffic and we don't want to keep users data in the filesystem as in case of failure all data will be lost. I'm also afraid that sooner or later it will become a performance bottleneck.

I've checked web/config.py and web/setup.py (commit 59d8f6fb84e0aabc098fecf968cde3f9fcdf53b0 Wed May 2 16:51:17 2018 +0100) and I was unable to find any way to initialise pgAdmin with Postgresql as a user data storage backend.

Documentation also says nothing about database other than SQLite (Development version (GIT head Thu May 3 13:45 2018 +1000).

Is there any way to set up pgAdmin with other database than SQLite? (Postgresql preferable)

This is not currently possible; however, the usage of SQLite is quite minimal. Have you done any load testing that shows it is actually a bottleneck, or are you speculating at this point? Certainly there will be a point where it may become an issue, but I have no idea at present if that's at 30 users or 300.

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