...effectively what was planned already in #266270, but it was too late
because the branches were restricted and didn't allow any breaking
changes anymore.
It also suffers from the same issue that we already had when discussing
this the last time[1] when `ensureDBOwnership` was ultimately introduced
as band-aid fix: newly created users don't get CREATE permission on
the `public` schema anymore (since psql 15), even with `ALL PRIVILEGES`.
If one's use-case is more sophisticated than having a single owner, it's
questionable anyways if this module is the correct tool since
permissions aren't dropped on a change to this option or a removal which
is pretty surprising in the context of NixOS.
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/266270
As it is technically a breaking change, we should at least make a strong deprecation
of `ensurePermissions` and leave it in the broken state it is, for out of tree users.
We give them a 6 months notice to migrate away by doing so, which is honest.
In the meantime, we forbid usage of `ensurePermissions` inside of nixpkgs.
Closes#216989
First of all, a bit of context: in PostgreSQL, newly created users don't
have the CREATE privilege on the public schema of a database even with
`ALL PRIVILEGES` granted via `ensurePermissions` which is how most of
the DB users are currently set up "declaratively"[1]. This means e.g. a
freshly deployed Nextcloud service will break early because Nextcloud
itself cannot CREATE any tables in the public schema anymore.
The other issue here is that `ensurePermissions` is a mere hack. It's
effectively a mixture of SQL code (e.g. `DATABASE foo` is relying on how
a value is substituted in a query. You'd have to parse a subset of SQL
to actually know which object are permissions granted to for a user).
After analyzing the existing modules I realized that in every case with
a single exception[2] the UNIX system user is equal to the db user is
equal to the db name and I don't see a compelling reason why people
would change that in 99% of the cases. In fact, some modules would even
break if you'd change that because the declarations of the system user &
the db user are mixed up[3].
So I decided to go with something new which restricts the ways to use
`ensure*` options rather than expanding those[4]. Effectively this means
that
* The DB user _must_ be equal to the DB name.
* Permissions are granted via `ensureDBOwnerhip` for an attribute-set in
`ensureUsers`. That way, the user is actually the owner and can
perform `CREATE`.
* For such a postgres user, a database must be declared in
`ensureDatabases`.
For anything else, a custom state management should be implemented. This
can either be `initialScript`, doing it manual, outside of the module or
by implementing proper state management for postgresql[5], but the
current state of `ensure*` isn't even declarative, but a convergent tool
which is what Nix actually claims to _not_ do.
Regarding existing setups: there are effectively two options:
* Leave everything as-is (assuming that system user == db user == db
name): then the DB user will automatically become the DB owner and
everything else stays the same.
* Drop the `createDatabase = true;` declarations: nothing will change
because a removal of `ensure*` statements is ignored, so it doesn't
matter at all whether this option is kept after the first deploy (and
later on you'd usually restore from backups anyways).
The DB user isn't the owner of the DB then, but for an existing setup
this is irrelevant because CREATE on the public schema isn't revoked
from existing users (only not granted for new users).
[1] not really declarative though because removals of these statements
are simply ignored for instance: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/206467
[2] `services.invidious`: I removed the `ensure*` part temporarily
because it IMHO falls into the category "manage the state on your
own" (see the commit message). See also
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/265857
[3] e.g. roundcube had `"DATABASE ${cfg.database.username}" = "ALL PRIVILEGES";`
[4] As opposed to other changes that are considered a potential fix, but
also add more things like collation for DBs or passwords that are
_never_ touched again when changing those.
[5] As suggested in e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/206467
As described in the release lifecycle docs from postgresql[1], v11 will
stop receiving fixes as of Nov 9 2023. This means it's EOL throughout
the entire lifetime of 23.11, so let's drop it now.
A lot of examples are also referencing postgresql_11. Where it's
sensible, use postgresql_15 as example now to avoid confusion.
This is also handy because the LLVM 16 fix for postgresql is not
available for postgresql 11 ;-)
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
This was causing the following warning before when building the manual:
warning: literalExample is deprecated, use literalExpression instead, or use literalMD for a non-Nix description.
Rather than using `literalExpression`, nothing is used. This option
expects a string and the example is a string, no special handling
required. Both `literalExample` from the docbook ages and
`literalExpression` now are only required if the example is
a Nix expression rather than a value of the option's type.
Make sure that JIT is actually available when using
services.postgresql = {
enable = true;
enableJIT = true;
package = pkgs.postgresql_15;
};
The current behavior is counter-intuitive because the docs state that
`enableJIT = true;` is sufficient even though it wasn't in that case
because the declared package doesn't have the LLVM dependency.
Fixed by using `package.withJIT` if `enableJIT = true;` and
`package.jitSupport` is `false`.
Also updated the postgresql-jit test to test for that case.
This is useful if your postgresql version is dependant on
`system.stateVersion` and not pinned down manually. Then it's not
necessary to find out which version exactly is in use and define
`package` manually, but just stay with what NixOS provides as default:
$ nix-instantiate -A postgresql
/nix/store/82fzmb77mz2b787dgj7mn4a8i4f6l6sn-postgresql-14.7.drv
$ nix-instantiate -A postgresql_jit
/nix/store/qsjkb72fcrrfpsszrwbsi9q9wgp39m50-postgresql-14.7.drv
$ nix-instantiate -A postgresql.withJIT
/nix/store/qsjkb72fcrrfpsszrwbsi9q9wgp39m50-postgresql-14.7.drv
$ nix-instantiate -A postgresql.withJIT.withoutJIT
/nix/store/82fzmb77mz2b787dgj7mn4a8i4f6l6sn-postgresql-14.7.drv
I.e. you can use postgresql with JIT (for complex queries only[1]) like
this:
services.postgresql = {
enable = true;
enableJIT = true;
};
Performing a new override instead of re-using the `_jit`-variants for
that has the nice property that overlays for the original package apply
to the JIT-enabled variant, i.e.
with import ./. {
overlays = [
(self: super: {
postgresql = super.postgresql.overrideAttrs (_: { fnord = "snens"; });
})
];
};
postgresql.withJIT.fnord
still gives the string `snens` whereas `postgresql_jit` doesn't have the
attribute `fnord` in its derivation.
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html#GUC-JIT-ABOVE-COST
this converts meta.doc into an md pointer, not an xml pointer. since we
no longer need xml for manual chapters we can also remove support for
manual chapters from md-to-db.sh
since pandoc converts smart quotes to docbook quote elements and our
nixos-render-docs does not we lose this distinction in the rendered
output. that's probably not that bad, our stylesheet didn't make use of
this anyway (and pre-23.05 versions of the chapters didn't use quote
elements either).
also updates the nixpkgs manual to clarify that option docs support all
extensions (although it doesn't support headings at all, so heading
anchors don't work by extension).
remove trailing whitespace
switch docs to markdown
use mdDoc
remove trailing whitespace
get rid of double space
add tests and update options to use submodule
remove whitespace
remove whitespace
use mdDoc
remove whitespace
make default a no-op
make ALTER ROLE a single sql statement
document null case
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
make (almost) all links appear on only a single line, with no
unnecessary whitespace, using double quotes for attributes. this lets us
automatically convert them to markdown easily.
the few remaining links are extremely long link in a gnome module, we'll
come back to those at a later date.
markdown can't represent the difference without another extension and
both the html manual and the manpage render them the same, so keeping the
distinction is not very useful on its own. with the distinction removed
we can automatically convert many options that use <code> tags to markdown.
the manpage remains unchanged, html manual does not render
differently (but class names on code tags do change from "code" to "literal").
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
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.
