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-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG.md10
-rw-r--r--proposals/2022-01-21_read-only-db.md60
-rw-r--r--python/fatcat_web/templates/base.html14
-rw-r--r--python/fatcat_web/web_config.py3
-rw-r--r--rust/HACKING.md2
-rw-r--r--rust/README.md2
-rw-r--r--rust/example.env2
-rw-r--r--rust/src/endpoints.rs14
-rw-r--r--rust/src/errors.rs10
9 files changed, 105 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 32257c1f..f68dc9dc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,10 +17,20 @@ See also:
## UNRELEASED
+### Changes
+
+- default local development database now called `fatcat_dev`, not `fatcat`
+
### Fixed
- various typos and spelling errors corrected (using `codespell`)
+### Added
+
+- "alert banner" mechanism for web interface
+- API server detects SQL transaction failure due to read-only mode, and returns
+ appropriate 5xx error
+
## [0.5.0] - 2021-11-22
Small change to the API schema (and SQL schema), adding the `content_scope`
diff --git a/proposals/2022-01-21_read-only-db.md b/proposals/2022-01-21_read-only-db.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16d3d166
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proposals/2022-01-21_read-only-db.md
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+
+status: in-progress
+
+Database Read-Only Mode
+=======================
+
+Fatcat should have the ability to run in "read-only" mode, where all web and
+API requests work as usual, except no modifications to the database are
+possible.
+
+There are at least two specific use cases for this mode:
+
+- during certain maintenance operations, like migrating VMs or upgrading databases
+- in the currently-planned high-availability mode, the "replica" VM (database,
+ API, and web interface) is read-only
+
+This proposal is to implement this at the SQL database level (using
+`default_transaction_read_only` in PostgreSQL), have the API server detect this
+error and report appropriately. Additionally, the web interface will have a
+configuration variable that allows a site-wide alert message which will display
+on every page, which will allow indicating things like upcoming downtime, read-only
+mode, and read-replica responses.
+
+TODO: have fatcat API server handle the specific error when a write is
+attempted on a read replica database (distinct from
+`default_transaction_read_only`).
+
+
+## Configure PostgreSQL Read-Only Mode
+
+Connect to database with `psql` (presumably as `postgres` superuser), and run:
+
+ ALTER DATABASE fatcat_prod SET default_transaction_read_only = true;
+
+Then restart the API server (to force reconnect).
+
+Revert with the same process, but setting to `false`.
+
+
+## Maintenance Process
+
+When database maintenance is in process, of a type that requires freezing
+writes to the database, first a banner should be set up via
+`FATCAT_ALERT_MESSAGE` and restarting `fatcat-web` (see below).
+
+Then, `default_transaction_read_only=true` can be set via `psql` (see
+PostgreSQL section of this doc) and `fatcat-api` restarted.
+
+When maintenance is done, reverse the process.
+
+
+## Read-Only Backup Web Configuration
+
+On replica (backup) servers, add a permanent `FATCAT_ALERT_MESSAGE` environment
+variable for the `fatcat-web` service, which will impose a loud banner in the
+web interface. HTML is allowed, so the message can link elsewhere for more
+details.
+
+If the replica is ever promoted to primary, this environment variable should be
+removed and the `fatcat-web` service restarted.
diff --git a/python/fatcat_web/templates/base.html b/python/fatcat_web/templates/base.html
index 5f507082..23cb5fa7 100644
--- a/python/fatcat_web/templates/base.html
+++ b/python/fatcat_web/templates/base.html
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
</head>
<body style="margin-bottom: 130px;">
-<header class="ui fixed inverted menu">
+<header class="ui fixed inverted menu" style="height: 3em;">
<div class="ui container">
{% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN.startswith('qa.') %}
<div class="ui left corner orange small label">
@@ -96,6 +96,18 @@
</div>
</header>
+{% if config.FATCAT_ALERT_MESSAGE %}
+<header class="ui fixed inverted yellow center aligned segment" style="margin-top: 3em; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0.5em;">
+ <div class="ui container">
+ <b style="color: black;">
+ <i class="ui exclamation triangle icon"></i>
+ {{ config.FATCAT_ALERT_MESSAGE | safe }}
+ <i class="ui exclamation triangle icon"></i>
+ </b>
+ </div>
+</header>
+{% endif %}
+
{% block fullmain %}
<!-- 4em top margin is "enough" -->
<main class="ui main container" style="margin-top: 6em; margin-bottom: 2em;" {% block main_extra_attr %}{% endblock %}>
diff --git a/python/fatcat_web/web_config.py b/python/fatcat_web/web_config.py
index 55d233f3..d58214cc 100644
--- a/python/fatcat_web/web_config.py
+++ b/python/fatcat_web/web_config.py
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ class Config(object):
os.environ.get("FATCAT_MERGE_SHADOW_PRESERVATION", default=False)
)
+ # creates a site-wide alert message
+ FATCAT_ALERT_MESSAGE = os.environ.get("FATCAT_ALERT_MESSAGE", default=None) or None
+
# CSRF on by default, but only for WTF forms (not, eg, search, lookups, GET
# forms)
WTF_CSRF_CHECK_DEFAULT = False
diff --git a/rust/HACKING.md b/rust/HACKING.md
index fbdeb499..997c849d 100644
--- a/rust/HACKING.md
+++ b/rust/HACKING.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Update Rust database schema (after changing raw SQL schema):
Debug SQL schema errors (if diesel commands fail):
- psql fatcat_test < migrations/2019-01-01-000000_init/up.sql
+ psql fatcat_dev < migrations/2019-01-01-000000_init/up.sql
## Direct API Interaction
diff --git a/rust/README.md b/rust/README.md
index 36061240..e9752fa7 100644
--- a/rust/README.md
+++ b/rust/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ commands from that user. To create the database account:
Copy `./example.env` to `./.env` and update the `DATABASE_URL` and
`TEST_DATABASE_URL` lines with the password you set above.
-As your regular user, use `diesel` to create and initialize the `fatcat`
+As your regular user, use `diesel` to create and initialize the `fatcat_dev`
database (`diesel` and the fatcat tools will automatically use postgresql
credentials from the `.env` file) as well as the `fatcat_test` database for
automated tests:
diff --git a/rust/example.env b/rust/example.env
index 9b59f28d..4ca8a170 100644
--- a/rust/example.env
+++ b/rust/example.env
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DATABASE_URL=postgres://fatcat:tactaf@localhost/fatcat
+DATABASE_URL=postgres://fatcat:tactaf@localhost/fatcat_dev
TEST_DATABASE_URL=postgres://fatcat:tactaf@localhost/fatcat_test
AUTH_LOCATION="dev.fatcat.wiki"
AUTH_KEY_IDENT="20190101-dev-dummy-key"
diff --git a/rust/src/endpoints.rs b/rust/src/endpoints.rs
index e04e7315..1a37ecfe 100644
--- a/rust/src/endpoints.rs
+++ b/rust/src/endpoints.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ macro_rules! generic_auth_err_responses {
match $val {
NotFound(_, _) | DatabaseRowNotFound => $resp_type::NotFound($val.into()),
InvalidCredentials(_) | InsufficientPrivileges(_) => $resp_type::Forbidden($val.into()),
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", $val);
capture_fail(&$val);
$resp_type::GenericError($val.into())
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ macro_rules! generic_err_responses {
//use crate::errors::FatcatError::*;
match $val {
NotFound(_, _) | DatabaseRowNotFound => $resp_type::NotFound($val.into()),
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", $val);
capture_fail(&$val);
$resp_type::GenericError($val.into())
@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@ impl Api for Server {
NotFound(_, _) | DatabaseRowNotFound => {
CreateEditgroupResponse::NotFound(fe.into())
}
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", fe);
capture_fail(&fe);
CreateEditgroupResponse::GenericError(fe.into())
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ impl Api for Server {
{
Ok(changelog) => GetChangelogResponse::Success(changelog),
Err(fe) => match fe {
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", fe);
capture_fail(&fe);
GetChangelogResponse::GenericError(fe.into())
@@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ impl Api for Server {
InvalidCredentials(_) | InsufficientPrivileges(_) => {
AuthOidcResponse::Forbidden(fe.into())
}
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", fe);
capture_fail(&fe);
AuthOidcResponse::GenericError(fe.into())
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ impl Api for Server {
InvalidCredentials(_) | InsufficientPrivileges(_) => {
AuthCheckResponse::Forbidden(fe.into())
}
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", fe);
capture_fail(&fe);
AuthCheckResponse::GenericError(fe.into())
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ impl Api for Server {
InvalidCredentials(_) | InsufficientPrivileges(_) => {
CreateAuthTokenResponse::Forbidden(fe.into())
}
- DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) => {
+ DatabaseError(_) | InternalError(_) | DatabaseReadOnly => {
error!("{}", fe);
capture_fail(&fe);
CreateAuthTokenResponse::GenericError(fe.into())
diff --git a/rust/src/errors.rs b/rust/src/errors.rs
index e18e660f..ea0f9646 100644
--- a/rust/src/errors.rs
+++ b/rust/src/errors.rs
@@ -81,10 +81,13 @@ pub enum FatcatError {
// Utf8Decode, StringDecode, Uuid
BadRequest(String),
- #[fail(display = "unexpected database error: {}", _0)]
+ #[fail(display = "database error: {}", _0)]
// Diesel constraint that we think is a user error
ConstraintViolation(String),
+ #[fail(display = "database in read-only mode (usually replica or maintenance)")]
+ DatabaseReadOnly,
+
#[fail(display = "generic database 'not-found'")]
// This should generally get caught and handled
DatabaseRowNotFound,
@@ -117,6 +120,11 @@ impl From<diesel::result::Error> for FatcatError {
fn from(inner: diesel::result::Error) -> FatcatError {
match inner {
diesel::result::Error::NotFound => FatcatError::DatabaseRowNotFound,
+ diesel::result::Error::DatabaseError(_, info)
+ if info.message().contains("in a read-only transaction") =>
+ {
+ FatcatError::DatabaseReadOnly
+ }
diesel::result::Error::DatabaseError(_, _) => {
FatcatError::ConstraintViolation(inner.to_string())
}
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