Got it. Thanks!
> On 7 Sep 2017, at 1:53 PM, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Glen Huang <hey...@gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto:ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com>> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Glen Huang <hey...@gmail.com
>> <mailto: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
>>
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