Ship the web code using server mode with appropriate paths by default and enable the runtime to override the mode, and force into desktop changing the appropriate paths to user-specific ones.
Note that this change will likely cause more advanced users to have to tweak configs.
RPMs will also need changes to create /var/lib/pgadmin and /var/log/pgadmin, owned by the webserver account.
In order to resolve the non-ascii characters in path (in user directory,
storage path, etc) on windows, we have converted the path into the
short-path, so that - we don't need to deal with the encoding issues
(specially with Python 2).
We've resolved majority of the issues with this patch.
We still need couple issues to resolve after this in the same area.
TODO
* Add better support for non-ascii characters in the database name on
windows with Python 3
* Improve the messages created after the background processes by
different modules (such as Backup, Restore, Import/Export, etc.),
which does not show short-paths, and xml representable characters for
non-ascii characters, when found in the database objects, and the file
PATH.
Fixes#2174, #1797, #2166, #1940
Initial patch by: Surinder Kumar
Reviewed by: Murtuza Zabuawala
Turns out using the config file isn't a good idea if users copy config.py to config_local.py, as it prevents upgrades to the database. This has the added side-effect of simplifying future changes, as you only need to edit 2 files to modify the config DB now, not 3.
slower system - user may need to set the value to some higher value.
This value decide - for how long SQLITE operation will wait, before
throwing an operation timeout error because of the locked database.
Fixes#1329
A distro can now install a config_distro.py file alongside config.py
in which distro-specific configuration settings can be set, overriding
those in config.py. User settings in config_local.py will override
all other settings. This is useful to allow packagers to config
settings like the doc path, that may be specific to RPMs or Wheels
etc.
