Thread: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
From
Victoria
Date:
Hello; I am using PostgreSQL v.10.2 as a root user (sudo -u postgres -i) on my local Arch Linux installation. I want to use Neovim (nvim v.0.2.2) as my external editor (\e) in psql; the current default is the Arch Linux default systemeditor, vi. If I add this to my ~/.psqlrc (/home/victoria/.psqlrc) \setenv EDITOR "/usr/bin/nano" then I can use nano, no problem. However, if I replace that with \setenv EDITOR "/usr/bin/nvim" and chown this postgres directory (to get around a .local/ permissions error that arises) sudo chown -R postgres:victoria /var/lib/postgres when I type \e in psql I can edit in nvim. The issue I have is that as I am in a postgres environment, my user (victoria) ~/.vimrc file (I link my nvim.init file toit) is not being loaded, so I don't have access to my Vim/NeoVim settings. I tried the nvim -u "<path-to-vimrc>" type statements in my ~/.psqlrc, but that throws an error about not a valid path (again,likely due to the Pg root environment?). Suggestions? Thank you. ==============================================================================
Re: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
From
Adrian Klaver
Date:
On 03/16/2018 10:47 AM, Victoria wrote: > Hello; I am using PostgreSQL v.10.2 as a root user (sudo -u postgres -i) on my local Arch Linux installation. > > I want to use Neovim (nvim v.0.2.2) as my external editor (\e) in psql; the current default is the Arch Linux default systemeditor, vi. > > If I add this to my ~/.psqlrc (/home/victoria/.psqlrc) > > \setenv EDITOR "/usr/bin/nano" > > then I can use nano, no problem. > > However, if I replace that with > > \setenv EDITOR "/usr/bin/nvim" > > and chown this postgres directory (to get around a .local/ permissions error that arises) > > sudo chown -R postgres:victoria /var/lib/postgres > > when I type \e in psql I can edit in nvim. > > The issue I have is that as I am in a postgres environment, my user (victoria) ~/.vimrc file (I link my nvim.init fileto it) is not being loaded, so I don't have access to my Vim/NeoVim settings. I guess the question is why sudo -u postgres -i? You can access the server via psql from your home directory. If you want to work as postgres user the simplest solution would be to add the .vimrc file to the postgres user directory. > > I tried the nvim -u "<path-to-vimrc>" type statements in my ~/.psqlrc, but that throws an error about not a valid path(again, likely due to the Pg root environment?). > > Suggestions? Thank you. > > ============================================================================== > -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
Re: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
From
Victoria
Date:
Adrian: "... simplest solution would be to add the .vimrc file to the postgres user directory ..." Good suggestion; I tried that previously, but will try it again. Thanks! :-)
Re: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
From
Victoria
Date:
Ok, here is a clumsy solution.
I have this entry in my /home/victoria/.psqlrc file,
\setenv EDITOR "/usr/bin/nvim"
As you see below, I symlink to that file, from postgres.
[victoria@victoria ~]$ sudo -u postgres -i
[postgres@victoria ~]$ pwd
/var/lib/postgres
[postgres@victoria ~]$ ls -la
total 108
drwxrwxr-x 6 postgres victoria 4096 Mar 16 12:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 Mar 16 00:00 ..
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 385 Mar 16 12:49 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 806 Mar 16 12:41 .bashrc
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Mar 16 12:23 .cache
drwxrwxr-x 2 postgres victoria 4096 Feb 23 13:26 data
drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4096 Mar 16 12:12 .local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 postgres victoria 62 Feb 23 15:10 .psql_history-postgres ->
/mnt/Vancouver/Programming/RDB/postgres/postgres/.psql_history
lrwxrwxrwx 1 postgres victoria 22 Feb 23 14:59 .psqlrc -> /home/victoria/.psqlrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 4096 Mar 16 12:38 .vim
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 895 Mar 16 12:48 .viminfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 68234 Mar 16 12:47 .vimrc
## NOTE: .bashrc and .vimrc are edited COPIES (not symlinks) of /home/victoria/{.bashrc | .vimrc}
[postgres@victoria ~]$ cat /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc
export PSQL_EDITOR="/usr/bin/nvim -u /var/lib/postgres/.vimrc"
## "/var/lib/postgres/.vimrc" is the same as "/home/victoria/.vimrc" EXCEPT
## that I commented out line 77, "execute pathogen#infect(), as that was
## throwing an error when starting nvim (Neovim) as the psql \e external editor.
## Important (slight annoyance: need to load that "postgres" .bashrc file:
[postgres@victoria ~]$ exec bash
[postgres@victoria ~]$ psql
psql (10.2)
Type "help" for help.
[postgres]# \e ## can edit in Neovim, with ~/.vimrc settings, preferences, customizations ...
[postgres]# \q
[postgres@victoria ~]$ exit
exit
[victoria@victoria ~]$
I wasn't able to automatically run the "exec bash" command after starting postgres, hence the need to manually run it
inthe postgres shell, prior to launching psql.
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Re: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
From
Adrian Klaver
Date:
On 03/16/2018 01:06 PM, Victoria wrote:
> Ok, here is a clumsy solution.
Still not sure why you want to run as the system postgres user. The
system user postgres is not the same as the Postgres database user
postgres. It is just convention that the system user that Postgres runs
as is called postgres. If you want to work in Postgres as the database
user postgres you just need to supply -U postgres to the client(psql in
this case). You can do that from your home account(victoria) without all
the contortions below:)
>
> I have this entry in my /home/victoria/.psqlrc file,
>
> \setenv EDITOR "/usr/bin/nvim"
>
> As you see below, I symlink to that file, from postgres.
>
> [victoria@victoria ~]$ sudo -u postgres -i
>
> [postgres@victoria ~]$ pwd
>
> /var/lib/postgres
>
> [postgres@victoria ~]$ ls -la
>
> total 108
> drwxrwxr-x 6 postgres victoria 4096 Mar 16 12:48 .
> drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 Mar 16 00:00 ..
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 385 Mar 16 12:49 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 806 Mar 16 12:41 .bashrc
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4096 Mar 16 12:23 .cache
> drwxrwxr-x 2 postgres victoria 4096 Feb 23 13:26 data
> drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4096 Mar 16 12:12 .local
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 postgres victoria 62 Feb 23 15:10 .psql_history-postgres ->
/mnt/Vancouver/Programming/RDB/postgres/postgres/.psql_history
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 postgres victoria 22 Feb 23 14:59 .psqlrc -> /home/victoria/.psqlrc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 4096 Mar 16 12:38 .vim
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 895 Mar 16 12:48 .viminfo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 68234 Mar 16 12:47 .vimrc
>
> ## NOTE: .bashrc and .vimrc are edited COPIES (not symlinks) of /home/victoria/{.bashrc | .vimrc}
>
> [postgres@victoria ~]$ cat /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc
>
> export PSQL_EDITOR="/usr/bin/nvim -u /var/lib/postgres/.vimrc"
>
> ## "/var/lib/postgres/.vimrc" is the same as "/home/victoria/.vimrc" EXCEPT
> ## that I commented out line 77, "execute pathogen#infect(), as that was
> ## throwing an error when starting nvim (Neovim) as the psql \e external editor.
>
> ## Important (slight annoyance: need to load that "postgres" .bashrc file:
>
> [postgres@victoria ~]$ exec bash
>
> [postgres@victoria ~]$ psql
>
> psql (10.2)
> Type "help" for help.
>
> [postgres]# \e ## can edit in Neovim, with ~/.vimrc settings, preferences, customizations ...
>
> [postgres]# \q
>
> [postgres@victoria ~]$ exit
>
> exit
>
> [victoria@victoria ~]$
>
> I wasn't able to automatically run the "exec bash" command after starting postgres, hence the need to manually run it
inthe postgres shell, prior to launching psql.
>
> ==============================================================================
>
>
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
Re: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc(environment?) issue
From
"Victoria Stuart (VictoriasJourney.com)"
Date:
@Adrian: Good point!! ;-) When I re-installed postgres some months ago, I basically followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PostgreSQL https://serverfault.com/questions/601140/whats-the-difference-between-sudo-su-postgres-and-sudo-u-postgres HOWEVER, as you note/allude, I tried this: [victoria@victoria ~]$ pwd /home/victoria [victoria@victoria ~]$ createuser -s -U postgres --interactive Enter name of role to add: victoria createuser: creation of new role failed: ERROR: role "victoria" already exists [victoria@victoria ~]$ createdb metab_test createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: database "metab_test" already exists [victoria@victoria ~]$ dropdb metab_test [victoria@victoria ~]$ createdb metab_test [victoria@victoria ~]$ psql -d metab_test -U victoria psql (10.2) Type "help" for help. [metab_test]# \l List of databases ┌─────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────────┐ │ Name │ Owner │ Encoding │ Collate │ Ctype │ Access privileges │ ├─────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────┤ │ metab │ postgres │ UTF8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ │ │ metab_test │ victoria │ UTF8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ │ │ metabolicdb │ metabolic │ UTF8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ │ │ postgres │ postgres │ UTF8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ │ │ template0 │ postgres │ UTF8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ =c/postgres ↵│ │ │ │ │ │ │ postgres=CTc/postgres │ │ template1 │ postgres │ UTF8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ en_US.UTF-8 │ =c/postgres ↵│ │ │ │ │ │ │ postgres=CTc/postgres │ └─────────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────┘ [metab_test]# \c metab You are now connected to database "metab" as user "victoria". [metab]# \d List of relations ┌────────┬───────────────────────────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ Schema │ Name │ Type │ Owner │ ├────────┼───────────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ public │ bioent │ table │ postgres │ │ public │ bioent_id_seq │ sequence │ postgres │ │ public │ enzyme_synonyms │ table │ postgres │ │ public │ enzyme_synonyms_id_seq │ sequence │ postgres │ │ public │ glycolysis_enzymes │ table │ postgres │ │ public │ glycolysis_enzymes_id_seq │ sequence │ postgres │ │ public │ glycolysis_metabolites │ table │ postgres │ │ public │ glycolysis_metabolites_id_seq │ sequence │ postgres │ │ public │ metabolite_synonyms │ table │ postgres │ │ public │ metabolite_synonyms_id_seq │ sequence │ postgres │ │ public │ metabolites │ table │ victoria │ │ public │ metabolites_id_seq │ sequence │ victoria │ │ public │ relations │ table │ postgres │ │ public │ relations_id_seq │ sequence │ postgres │ └────────┴───────────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┘ [metab]# \e ## launches external editor (neovim), c. victoria's settings ... [metab]# \q [victoria@victoria ~]$ Of course (in Arch Linux), the postgres service enabled and running: sudo systemctl enable postgresql sudo systemctl enable postgresql Thank you very much for your comment; this greatly simplifies things! I guess I just needed a nudge in that direction. Much appreciated! :-D ============================================================================== ----- Original Message(s): ----- Date: 2018 Mar 16 (Fri) 13:33 From: Adrian ... Subject: Re: Nvim as external editor in psql as Postgres root user - .vimrc (environment?) issue On 03/16/2018 01:06 PM, Victoria wrote: > Ok, here is a clumsy solution. Still not sure why you want to run as the system postgres user. The system user postgres is not the same as the Postgres database user postgres. It is just convention that the system user that Postgres runs as is called postgres. If you want to work in Postgres as the database user postgres you just need to supply -U postgres to the client(psql in this case). You can do that from your home account(victoria) without all the contortions below:) [snip: my previous post / "solution"] -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@aklaver.com