Re: Unified server/desktop config - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Surinder Kumar <surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi

On Ubuntu-14.04, I got error Application Server couldn't be contacted:

Steps performed:

• I have already installed pgAdmin4-1.4 which come with PostgreSQL-9.6 installer.
  then I run root@ubuntu:/opt/PostgreSQL/9.6/pgAdmin 4/bin# ./pgAdmin4./.
• Now took latest git pull from HEAD
• Apply unified_config.diff patch.
• Then compiled pgAdmin4 in runtime and then run ./pgAdmin.
• Got error Application Server couldn't be contacted.

But when I ran ./pgAdmin4 for the second time. pgAdmin4 runs without any issue.
I didn’t get any error on the terminal and log file.

​ I couldn't find why it gives this error.​

I know Fahar has run into this with existing releases on Ubuntu. If you enable debugging, can you see any clues? I assume it's going round the retry loop before aborting? 

Another issue related to Alembic:

If I am running pgAdmin4 already installed on my machine, then I upgrade pgAdmin4 using Python wheel:

(test_p27) surinder@ubuntu:~/virtualenvs/test_p27$ python ~/virtualenvs/test_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py

I am getting error:

alembic.util.exc.CommandError: Can't locate revision identified by 'd85a62333272'

To fix this, I have to delete existing pgadmin4.db file. I don’t know if it is a valid case or should I log an RM if it is?

That's an annoying side-effect of the move to Alembic. The previous DB code would quite happily (and intentionally) run with a newer version of the database, however, the new code does not. You'll see this issue whenever you've run a newer version of pgAdmin and then go back to an older version that uses an older schema version.

It would be nice to change this so it doesn't complain - but we'd have to be cautious to only break compatibility on major releases.

 

Apart for this, I didn’t see any functionality break. It works!!

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I liked the approach to set SEVER_MODE in runtime using built-ins.

Thanks. Do you think it warrants a 2.0 version number, given the potential for breaking existing installations (I do, but would like other feedback)? If we do that - and thus allow a parallel installation of 1.x and 2.x), how would we resolve the Alembic issue you noted such that both versions could be run against the same DB?

 

Thanks,
Surinder

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On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Surinder Kumar <surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

Hi,

The patch seems to work in Runtime mode, but fails in Server mode with error:

(pgAdmin_27)Laptop195:pgadmin4 surinder$ python web/pgAdmin4.py
Traceback (most recent call last): File "web/pgAdmin4.py", line 55, in <module>   exec(open(file_quote(setupfile), 'r').read()) File "<string>", line 35, in <module> File "/Users/surinder/Documents/Projects/pgadmin4/web/pgadmin/setup/data_directory.py", line 23, in create_app_data_directory   _create_directory_if_not_exists(os.path.dirname(config.SQLITE_PATH)) File "/Users/surinder/Documents/Projects/pgadmin4/web/pgadmin/setup/data_directory.py", line 15, in _create_directory_if_not_exists   os.mkdir(_path)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/pgadmin'
(pgAdmin_27)Laptop195:pgadmin4 surinder$

This is because the directory /var/lib/ has root only access and I am running pgAdmin4 with the non-root user.

Also pgadmin directory is not created.

(pgAdmin_35)Laptop195:pgadmin4 surinder$ ls /var/lib/pgadmin
ls: /var/lib/pgadmin: No such file or directory

I got same error with MacOSX and Ubuntu-14.04 machines irrespective of Python version.

Meanwhile, I am testing patch with other test cases.

That's fully expected. In the case of Linux, the packages will be responsible for creating those directories with the appropriate ownership. In other cases, the user would.

​ok, I got it.​

There's not really much we can do about that - and it's exactly what would happen if you try to run many other packages yourself when standard *nix paths are used. 

 

Thanks,
Surinder

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On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Surinder Kumar <surinder.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

Anyone?

Surinder - please give this one priority.

Sure

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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:

All,

Attached is a patch that aims to allow us to have a standardised config that will work out of the box for both web and desktop modes. It does this by doing two things:

1) The runtime sets SERVER_MODE in the Python environment before starting the app. If this value is set, then it overrides the default value of SERVER_MODE in the config.

2) The config file then offers default values for the various file locations for both server and desktop mode, setting them appropriately based on the derived SERVER_MODE value.

The only downsides I can see from this are:

- You cannot run in server mode in the runtime without manually reconfiguring SERVER_MODE and likely a bunch of paths in config_local.py

- If you want to override SERVER_MODE, you'll probably also need to redefine the various paths in config_local.py.

I don't see either being something 99.9% of users would need though.

Can anyone see if the patch breaks anything, or if I missed any side effects?

Is it likely to break things during upgrades? I suspect so... so maybe this should prompt v2.0?

I'd appreciate multiple reviews of this, as it could break things. Note that I haven't yet updated the docs.

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EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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