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ambitious-ram-5811

08/30/2019, 5:27 AM
Hi! I'm trying to use the PostgreSQL module along with creating the PostgreSQL db itself and I'm getting a bit of an ordering problem, here's my script: https://gist.github.com/anaisbetts/e59b9af4c2300043cfb711a058e63afc
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best-xylophone-83824

08/30/2019, 9:31 AM
something like:
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const db = new pg.Database('MyCoolDatabase',{},{dependsOn: [pgContainer]});
might help.
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stocky-spoon-28903

08/30/2019, 11:00 AM
The other way to do this is to create a first class Postgres provider to encode the dependency. I’ll post an example shortly
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ambitious-ram-5811

08/30/2019, 2:17 PM
I think
dependsOn
is the piece I was missing
Hm, no dice on
dependsOn
It also seems like despite setting
sslmode
(and strangely,
sslMode
, both of which are valid), it demands TLS to be set up on my localhost-only database
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stocky-spoon-28903

08/30/2019, 10:46 PM
This is more like what I meant: https://gist.github.com/jen20/0f265fa8c8ffb66c6d3e12a1821e4b39 - constructing the provider using an output of the container, it encodes the dependency relationship.
Setting
sslmode: "disable"
should get rid of the TLS requirement too
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ambitious-ram-5811

08/30/2019, 11:45 PM
This is getting closer! Setting
host: pgContainer.ipAddress
gets the ordering right but blows up later, because that IP address is only valid from inside the container network
But if I hardcode it to
127.0.0.1
, we're back to trying to run it too early
Hm I take it back, the IP address works fine
I wonder if it's just jumping the gun and trying to connect to postgres too early
Yep, sure enough - if I re-run
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it works fine
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some-doctor-62800

08/31/2019, 12:49 AM
we are doing much more complicated postgres work already, it does work alright
and we actually connect to this through an ssh jump box
someone once said to me "infra will never be clean, there will always be hacks"
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ambitious-ram-5811

08/31/2019, 1:07 AM
You might just be happening to win the race, because I'm doing it all on local Docker the ordering is a bit tighter
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white-balloon-205

08/31/2019, 1:18 AM
I would guess that the issue is with
docker.Container
not waiting for the container to be fully booted (I don’t even think docker has any robust notion of that). And then the
Postgres.Provider
not having a built in retry. Either/both of those could be considered bugs in the providers. Alternatively, you can manually inject delays if needed - along the lines of this (though can probably be much simpler for your use case): https://gist.github.com/lukehoban/fd0355ed5b82386bd89c0ffe2a3c916a
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ambitious-ram-5811

08/31/2019, 3:13 AM
Alright! This lolzy hack seems to work On My Machine:
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function stallThenReturn<T>(timeout: number, value: T): Promise<T> {
  return new Promise((res) => setTimeout(() => res(value), timeout));
}

const pgProvider = new pg.Provider('pg', {
  host: pgContainer.ipAddress,
  username: cfg.require('pguser'),
  password: cfg.requireSecret('pgpass'),
  sslmode: stallThenReturn(5 * 1000, 'disable'),
});
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some-doctor-62800

08/31/2019, 12:45 PM
Ah right yeah we're using a managed pg db so that probably won't have timing issues
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best-xylophone-83824

09/02/2019, 8:13 AM
@ambitious-ram-5811, nice trick