Database Seeding for different Environments - #279
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In `@docs/db-provisioning-and-setup.md`:
- Around line 192-202: Update the Expected Output Structure example so the
Project Manager row includes the project ID assigned by the seeding setup in
project_id; leave organization-level role rows with project_id empty.
- Around line 51-60: The database setup documentation must stop presenting
DATABASE_URL as both the runtime and migration connection, since migrations
require the migrations role rather than web_user. Update the
environment-variable table and db:setup guidance to use a migrations connection
for setup, and document the web_user runtime connection separately while
preserving the existing provisioning variable names.
In `@src/db/env-configs/dev.ts`:
- Around line 31-58: Update src/db/env-configs/dev.ts lines 31-58 to remove
hardcoded seed user credentials, require them through the existing
injected-credential mechanism, and disable printCredentials for the shared Dev
environment. Update src/db/env-configs/qa.ts lines 27-37 to remove the known
fallback credentials and fail when the required credentials are absent.
In `@src/db/env-configs/types.ts`:
- Around line 45-51: Update the documentation for the databaseUrl field in the
configuration type to state that config.databaseUrl is used only when
process.env.DATABASE_URL is absent, and remove the incorrect claim that setup.ts
overwrites an existing environment value.
In `@src/db/scripts/provision-db.ts`:
- Around line 279-286: Update the provisionConfig password handling in the
provisioning flow to track which required passwords are missing instead of
silently defaulting them to empty strings. Before any role-changing DDL
executes, collect the missing variable names and exit with an appropriate error;
only continue provisioning when all password values are present.
- Around line 58-79: Update upsertLoginRole and ensureGroupRole to reconcile the
complete intended PostgreSQL role attributes on every run, not only when
creating roles. Existing login roles must be reset to LOGIN with the intended
password and without unintended elevated attributes; existing group roles must
be explicitly set to NOLOGIN and have elevated capabilities disabled. Preserve
idempotent creation and existing logging behavior.
- Around line 186-239: Add equivalent default-privilege grants for the
migrations creator in the provisioning section, covering the public schema
permissions for roleWebData and roleAiReader (and matching any other required
creator-specific grants). Keep the existing dbAdmin defaults unchanged and use
the existing migrations role symbol.
In `@src/db/seeds/dev-users.ts`:
- Around line 81-105: Update the seed-user flow around existingAuthUser,
existingUserByEmail, and existingUserByUsername so existing accounts continue
into role reconciliation instead of returning early. Load the existing
application user within the transaction, then reconcile the required user_roles
rows, including the anchor role and configured grants, correcting prior
assignments while preserving creation for missing accounts. Treat role
reconciliation—not account existence—as the completion condition.
In `@src/lib/queue.ts`:
- Around line 44-46: Update the pg-boss configuration’s createSchema option to
false so queue startup skips schema creation; retain the existing
bootstrap-created pgboss schema flow.
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Nice work on the role hierarchy — the group-role/login-role split in provision-db.ts is the right model, and using server-side quote_ident/quote_literal for identifiers is a good instinct. Most of CodeRabbit's substantive points are already fixed in 5b066f7 and 433d148.
Requesting changes on five items that I think block a working dev/qa bring-up. Details inline; the short version:
- The pgboss queue can't initialize on a freshly provisioned dev/qa DB (two compounding grant gaps).
DEV_DATABASE_URL/QA_DATABASE_URLare silently ignored wheneverDATABASE_URLis set — inverting the doc.npm run db:provision:qacrashes before doing anything (reproduced)..envdoesn't work for any of the new scripts, though the new doc says it does.- Hardcoded
Test@1234for four accounts on the shared Dev server.
The rest are marked non-blocking. Also: your reply about project_id being null for the org-level Project Manager row is correct — CodeRabbit was wrong on that one.
| // Bootstrap creates the pgboss schema; skip the CREATE SCHEMA DDL so | ||
| // api_user (runtime role) doesn't need CREATE privilege on the database. | ||
| createSchema: false, | ||
| createSchema: true, |
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Blocking — the queue can't start on a freshly provisioned dev/qa DB.
I read your reply about keeping this true deliberately, and auto-provisioning is a reasonable choice. But it needs matching grants, and right now they aren't there.
pg-boss emits CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS pgboss as the first statement of its install plan (node_modules/pg-boss/dist/index.mjs:59), executed over DATABASE_URL — api_user locally, web_user in dev/qa. Neither has CREATE ON DATABASE: bootstrap.ts:147 grants it only to the migrator, and provision-db.ts grants it to nobody. Postgres checks the database-level CREATE ACL before the IF NOT EXISTS short-circuit, so this fails rather than no-ops.
Also, the comment on lines 52-53 now says the opposite of what the code does ("skip the CREATE SCHEMA DDL"), and references api_user, which only exists locally. Whichever way you go, that comment needs to change.
Two workable paths: keep createSchema: true and grant the runtime role CREATE ON DATABASE plus CREATE ON SCHEMA pgboss (see my note on provision-db.ts:182), or revert to false and have provision-db.ts install the pgboss schema the way bootstrap.ts:151 does locally. I'd lean toward the second — it keeps the runtime role free of DDL rights, which is the whole point of the role split in this PR.
| await sql.unsafe(`GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO ${roleAiReader}`); | ||
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| // role_pgboss_user: full DML on pgboss | ||
| await sql.unsafe(`GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA pgboss TO ${rolePgbossUser}`); |
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Blocking — role_pgboss_user can't create the pgboss tables.
This grants USAGE + DML on the pgboss schema, but the schema is owned by db_admin and the role never gets CREATE on it. pg-boss installs its own enum, tables, and functions at runtime as web_user, so on a freshly provisioned dev/qa database that install fails with permission denied for schema pgboss — even after the database-level CREATE problem in queue.ts:54 is solved. Nothing else in the setup path creates those tables, so the queue can never initialize on dev/qa.
This is the second half of the same problem. If you keep runtime schema creation, role_pgboss_user needs CREATE ON SCHEMA pgboss. If you move pgboss installation into provisioning, this grant set is correct as written.
| // ── Override / Resolve DATABASE_URL ─────────────────────────────────────── | ||
| // Prioritise process.env.DATABASE_URL if set by environment / .env file. | ||
| // Fall back to config.databaseUrl if defined in the env-config. | ||
| if (process.env.DATABASE_URL) { |
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Blocking — DEV_DATABASE_URL / QA_DATABASE_URL are silently ignored in exactly the case they matter.
This branch prefers process.env.DATABASE_URL over config.databaseUrl. But config.databaseUrl is itself DEV_DATABASE_URL ?? DATABASE_URL (dev.ts:29, qa.ts:27). So whenever DATABASE_URL is exported — the normal case in any deployed or containerized environment — the env-specific URL loses, and there's no way to override it short of unsetting DATABASE_URL.
That inverts the note added in this PR's own doc: "Use the migrations credentials in DEV_DATABASE_URL / QA_DATABASE_URL when running db:setup." The practical result is drizzle-kit migrate running as web_user, which has no DDL rights, or targeting the wrong database entirely.
Suggest resolving precedence in one place — have the env-config own it (DEV_DATABASE_URL wins for SETUP_ENV=dev) and let setup.ts just consume config.databaseUrl. Worth documenting MIGRATIONS_DATABASE_URL here too, since drizzle.config.ts:8 prefers it over DATABASE_URL and it's absent from the env catalog in the new doc.
| // accidentally seeding an account with a known placeholder password. | ||
| email: (() => { | ||
| const v = process.env.QA_PM_EMAIL; | ||
| if (!v) throw new Error('Missing required env var: QA_PM_EMAIL'); |
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Blocking — npm run db:provision:qa crashes before it provisions anything.
These guards are IIFEs evaluated at module import time, and provision-db.ts:298 dynamically imports this same config. Provisioning never touches seed users, but it can't get past the import. Reproduced on the current head:
$ SETUP_ENV=qa BOOTSTRAP_DATABASE_URL=... DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD=... \
npx tsx src/db/scripts/provision-db.ts
provision-db failed: Error: Missing required env var: QA_PM_EMAIL
at src/db/env-configs/qa.ts:33:23
at async main (src/db/scripts/provision-db.ts:298:16)
Chicken-and-egg: provisioning is step 1 on a fresh Azure server, and it now demands the step-2 seed credentials. The intent here is right — no placeholder password fallback — it's just enforced at the wrong moment. Make seedUsers a lazy getter, or validate in setup.ts after the config loads, so provisioning can run without it.
| seedUsers: [ | ||
| { | ||
| email: 'qa.manager@fluent.com', | ||
| password: 'Test@1234', |
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Blocking — hardcoded credentials for a shared remote server.
Four accounts seeded with Test@1234 committed to the repo, one of them a project_manager, on a network-reachable Azure Flexible Server. qa.ts:29 deliberately refuses to do exactly this ("no fallback to avoid accidentally seeding an account with a known placeholder password") — Dev should follow the same rule, since it's just as reachable as QA.
This was CodeRabbit's one major finding that didn't get a reply, so flagging it explicitly rather than letting it get resolved silently. printCredentials: false is already correct here; it's the source-committed passwords that are the issue.
Same env-var pattern as qa.ts would work, or drop the three translators from Dev entirely — the file header says the intent is to create additional users through the UI anyway, which the current four-user list contradicts.
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Agreed — went with the env-var pattern rather than dropping the translators, since we don't have real accounts and can't practically use the UI-invite flow for dev.
Test@1234 and all four hardcoded passwords are removed. dev.ts now requires three env vars — no committed credential, no hardcoded fallback:
DEV_PM_EMAIL / DEV_PM_PASSWORD — PM account
DEV_SEED_PASSWORD — shared password for the three translator accounts
The translator emails stay hardcoded since they're obviously fake and carry no security risk. Documented in .env and docs/db-provisioning-and-setup.md.
| await sql`SELECT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_roles WHERE rolname = ${roleName}) AS exists`; | ||
| if (row.exists) { | ||
| // Reconcile: reset LOGIN, password, and clear any unintended elevated attributes. | ||
| const clearAttrs = 'NOSUPERUSER NOCREATEDB NOREPLICATION NOBYPASSRLS'; |
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Non-blocking, but please verify against real Azure before merge.
NOSUPERUSER, NOREPLICATION, and NOBYPASSRLS in ALTER ROLE require an actual superuser — even to clear the attribute. The documented target is Azure Flexible Server, whose admin account (azure_pg_admin) is not a superuser. The first run succeeds because it takes the CREATE path with no attributes; every re-run takes the ALTER path and would abort with must be superuser to change superuser attribute, which breaks the "IDEMPOTENT: safe to re-run" contract in the file header. ensureGroupRole at line 90 has the same shape.
I can't confirm this without an Azure instance, so treat it as "test a second run" rather than a definite bug — but it's cheap to check and expensive to discover later.
Separately and definitely: the docstring on line 58-60 says "SUPERUSER, CREATEDB, CREATEROLE are explicitly cleared," but clearAttrs has no NOCREATEROLE. A role that picked up CREATEROLE out of band keeps it forever. db_admin re-grants it via extraOptions, so adding it here is safe.
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| // ── Reconcile required role grants ──────────────────────────────────── | ||
| // Fetch existing role grants for this user in this org. | ||
| const existingGrants = await tx |
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Non-blocking — role reconciliation ignores scope.
Good fix on the reconciliation overall. One gap: this filters on user_roles.userId only, while the uniqueness contract is (userId, COALESCE(orgId,-1), COALESCE(projectId,-1), roleId) (schema.ts:785).
So a seeded PM who already holds a project-scoped Project Manager grant (orgId null, projectId set) — which is the normal way that role gets assigned at runtime — puts pmRoleId into grantedRoleIds, and the org-level grant at line 171 is skipped. They end up without org-scoped PM rights, silently. Same failure mode for Org Member when the user holds it in a different org.
Adding eq(user_roles.orgId, defaultOrg.id) and a null projectId check to the where clause should line the query up with the constraint.
| `GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON TABLES TO ${roleMigrations}` | ||
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Non-blocking — the 433d148 fix is right but only covers public.
Retargeting ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES at the migrations login role is the correct call. But the db_admin block above covers public, ai, pgboss, and drizzle, while this one covers public only. Any table Drizzle creates in ai or drizzle gets no default grants for role_web_data / role_ai_reader / role_ai_data, so those roles lose access to future objects in those schemas.
Also worth checking at runtime: ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE x requires the executing role to be a member of x. On Azure, azure_pg_admin isn't a superuser, so this may need an explicit GRANT migrations TO <bootstrap_role> earlier in the script. Related to the note on line 68.
| // Insert Project Manager role if this user is designated as one and it is missing. | ||
| if (seedUser.role === 'project_manager') { | ||
| const pmRoleId = roleMap.get(ROLES.PROJECT_MANAGER); | ||
| if (pmRoleId && !grantedRoleIds.has(pmRoleId)) { |
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Non-blocking, two smaller things in this function.
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This silently no-ops when
PROJECT_MANAGERis missing from the roles table, whereas theORG_MEMBERlookup at line 65 throws with "Run seedRoles first." On a QA env whose only seeded user is a PM, a missing or renamed role produces a successful-looking setup with a PM who has no PM role — surfacing much later as an authorization bug. Worth making both paths consistent. -
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existingUserByEmailpre-check was dropped. If ausersrow exists with the seed email but no matchingauth_user(an invited user created through the app, or a partially-rolled-back prior run), execution falls into the create branch at line 130 and theusersinsert violates the unique email constraint — throwing out of the transaction and aborting the wholedb:setuprun, where it previously logged a skip and continued.
Also minor: existing users never get password updates, so rotating QA_PM_PASSWORD and re-running silently does nothing to the stored hash. Given QA now requires an injected password, someone will reasonably expect rotation to work — either update authAccount.password on reconcile or note it in the doc.
| | `QA_DATABASE_URL` | `setup.ts` (QA) | QA migrations/seed connection (`migrations` role preferred for setup) | `postgres://migrations:pass@qa-host:5432/fluentdb` | | ||
| | `BOOTSTRAP_DATABASE_URL` | `provision-db.ts` | Superuser / Admin URL to create roles & schemas | `postgres://admin:pass@host:5432/fluentdb?sslmode=require` | | ||
| | `DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD` | `provision-db.ts` | Password for the schema-owner `db_admin` role | `SecretDbAdminPass123` | | ||
| | `MIGRATIONS_PASSWORD` | `provision-db.ts` | Password for the DDL migration runner `migrations` user | `SecretMigrationsPass123` | |
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Non-blocking — doc gaps, worth folding in with the code fixes.
The catalog is missing MIGRATIONS_DATABASE_URL, which drizzle.config.ts:8 actually prefers over DATABASE_URL for migrations. Since this table is the canonical list, its absence sends people to DEV_DATABASE_URL when the more direct lever exists.
Two more, once the code changes land: the .env row in "Where to Set Environment Variables" above isn't true yet for these scripts (see provision-db.ts:301), and the DEV_DATABASE_URL guidance is currently defeated by the precedence bug in setup.ts:63.
Broader point for a follow-up, not this PR: local bootstrap.ts derives api_migrator / api_user from the compose URLs, while provision-db.ts creates db_admin / migrations / web_user / ai_user. Two role vocabularies for one system — the stale comment in queue.ts already trips on it by naming api_user in a dev/qa context. Worth converging on one set of names.
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