Although the quotes here aren't necessary, they may be if a user cargo-cults this example with a database name with hyphens (or other "unusual" characters).
* nixos/postgresql: fix inaccurate docs for authentication
We actually use peer authentication, then md5 based authentication.
trust is not used.
* Use a link for mkForce docs
Co-authored-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Co-authored-by: lf- <lf-@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The missing () caused parts of the escripts to be added to the
ExecStartPost line instead of inside the script.
This caused postgresql start to fail under certain conditions.
Currently, sudo doesn't work in a NixOS container running inside a Nix
build, because Nix's seccomp filter doesn't allow setuid programs. In
any case, runuser is a bit lower-overhead than sudo.
By default, postgres prefixes each log line with a timestamp. On NixOS
logs are written to journal anyway, so they include an external
timestamp, so the timestamp ends up being printed twice, which clutters
the log.
* Add a module option to change the log prefix.
* Set it to upstream default sans timestamp.
This is rework of part of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/46670.
My usecase was to be able to inspect PG datadir as wheel user.
PG11 now allows starting server with 0750 mask for data dir.
`groupAccess = true` now does this automatically. The only thing you have to do
is to set group ownership.
For PG10 and below, I've described a hack how this can be done. Before this PR
hack was impossible. The hack isn't ideal, because there is short
period of time when dir mode is 0700, so I didn't want to make it official.
Test/example is present too.
This is needed because some PostgreSQL plugins don't have a bin
directory. If only these plugins are listed in cfg.extraPlugins buildEnv
will turn $out/bin into a symbolic link to ${pg}/bin. Lateron we try to
rm $out/bin/{pg_config,postgres,pg_ctl} which will then fail because
$out/bin will be read-only.
The default, which is /tmp, has a few issues associated with it:
One being that it makes it easy for users on the system to spoof a
PostgreSQL server if it's not running, causing applications to connect
to their provided sockets instead of just failing to connect.
Another one is that it makes sandboxing of PostgreSQL and other services
unnecessarily difficult. This is already the case if only PrivateTmp is
used in a systemd service, so in order for such a service to be able to
connect to PostgreSQL, a bind mount needs to be done from /tmp to some
other path, so the service can access it. This pretty much defeats the
whole purpose of PrivateTmp.
We regularily run into issues with this in the past already (one example
would be https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24317) and with the new
systemd-confinement mode upcoming in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/57519, it makes it even more
tedious to sandbox services.
I've tested this change against all the postgresql NixOS VM tests and
they still succeed and I also grepped through the source tree to replace
other occasions where we might have /tmp hardcoded. Luckily there were
very few occasions.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Cc: @ocharles, @thoughtpolice, @danbst
This allows, finally, proper detection when postgresql is ready to
accept connections. Until now, it was possible that services depending
on postgresql would fail in a race condition trying to connect
to postgresql.
This reverts commit 095fe5b43d.
Pointless renames considered harmful. All they do is force people to
spend extra work updating their configs for no benefit, and hindering
the ability to switch between unstable and stable versions of NixOS.
Like, what was the value of having the "nixos." there? I mean, by
definition anything in a NixOS module has something to do with NixOS...
