Re: Possible to add servers to pgadmin4 via CLI or config files?

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Glen Huang <heyhgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Thanks for the detailed explanation.
>
> Yes, I currently run it the runtime mode.
>
> Good to know pgadmin4.db will be auto-migrated.
>
> But to prevent it from re-migrating every time the container starts
> afresh, I guess it’s better to re-add pgadmin4.db every once a while after
> I have upgraded to a new version?
>
To be honest - it's a design choice, whether to go ahead with the existing
configuration, or add them every once a while.
Either way - it should work (except in rare condition, when we had to break
the backward compatibility of the configuration due to some major change,
which we always announce/shout about on pgadmin-hackers mailing list).

-- Thanks, Ashesh

>
> Regards,
> Glen
>
>
> On 7 Sep 2017, at 1:39 PM, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Glen Huang <heyhgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m running pgadmin in docker, and I’d like it to contain some servers by
>> default when the container starts. Is there any way to add servers (ideally
>> also preferences) via command line or some config files?
>>
>> Currently I keep a copy of pgadmin4.db after I have configured pgadmin,
>> and put that in the docker. But I worry that the data structure of that db
>> file can change, and I need to reconfigure pgadmin when I upgrade to a new
>> version.
>>
>> Is copying over pgadmin4.db the right way to achieve that?
>>
> pgAdmin 4 can be run in two modes, server mode, and runtime (stand alone)
> mode.
>
> In server mode, generally - it should be accessible through browser, and
> hence - for security reasons, we create the user on first startup.
> In runtime (stand alone mode), it runs as an application.
>
> I believe - you're talking about runtime mode.
> Then - it's ok to share the pgadmin4.db (configuration file), but - it
> would be available to a particular user, as it is shared among the
> operating system users.
>
> pgAdmin 4 will do automatically upgrade of the configuration on next run,
> if some configuration has changed. So - it would safe to share the
> configuration file in dockers.
>
> -- Thanks, Ashesh
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Glen
>>
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