On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Glen Huang <hey...@gmail.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.va...@enterprisedb.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Glen Huang <hey...@gmail.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 >> > > >
