Hi Guix, Following my previous attempt at running a web service using Gunicorn and a SQLite database [1], I tried to replace the SQLite database with a Posgresql database, for I thought it would be easier! Silly me! 😅
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2026-03/msg00063.html I’m now running into a totally different problem, but this time it might be that I’m not using Guix service types as they are intended to be… In my OS definition, which I use to instantiate a container, I add two services: - a postgresql service - a gunicorn service The containers start and both services run, but… my problem arises when I try to initialize the database, *ie* create the tables within it. My web service has a command for that (two actually, `db init` or `db migrate`) and, based on what I have understood, I run those commands from a `activation-service-type` service extension. The problem is that it runs **before** the database has been started and fails! 😱 I do not "own" the `gunicorn-service-type` and cannot add a `requirement` to its shepherd extension to tell it that it should run after the database. Am I using the service types all wrong? Is the activation service the right place to run init commands? Does `gunicorn-service-type` need to expose a `requirement`? So many questions!! 😵 Any advice welcome! -- Tanguy
