The scenarios worked around Postgres 18's data layout change by mounting the
tmpfs at /var/lib/postgresql. The postgres role solved the same problem
differently and better, when it bit us there: it sets PGDATA explicitly, and to
/data rather than anywhere beneath /var/lib/postgresql, because that path is a
VOLUME in the official image and nothing can be mounted under it.
Doing the same here means the scenarios exercise the layout the role actually
deploys, and that a future image changing its own default cannot move the data
directory out from under them.
Ref: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/pull/1259
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`group_vars/matrix_servers` selects postgres whenever postgres is enabled, which
is the default, so postgres is what essentially every deployment runs. The
scenarios were testing sqlite - a path almost nobody is on.
How little that path is used is not a guess: the mautrix-meta bridges could not
start at all under sqlite, and nobody reported it. Testing the engine users are
actually on is worth more than keeping coverage of the one they are not, so no
scenario is left behind on sqlite.
Four of the eight scenarios have a database and are converted; the other four
have none and are untouched.
molecule-shared/tasks/postgres.yml stands Postgres up on the scenario's network,
with the data directory on a tmpfs since it is thrown away with the container.
The image is pinned at the major the postgres role deploys to new installations
and left to Renovate: when a new major lands, the PR bumping that pin runs every
scenario against it, which is the earliest warning we get that a component does
not cope.
Each scenario gives its database and user names that differ from the role's
defaults, so the component reaching the database proves the role built its
connection string out of them. The assertions moved from "a file appeared at the
path we configured" to "these tables exist", which is strictly stronger: tables
can only appear once the component has resolved the hostname, authenticated with
the credentials the role rendered, and run its migrations to completion.
Costs about 10 seconds per affected scenario (115s to 125s locally for
mautrix-whatsapp), on jobs that run in parallel.
Gotcha worth recording: since Postgres 18 the image puts PGDATA in a versioned
subdirectory and refuses to start if it finds a mount at the old
/var/lib/postgresql/data, so the tmpfs is mounted at /var/lib/postgresql.
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