mathesar-foundation / mathesar

Web application providing an intuitive user experience to databases.
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Updates to documentation #3457

Closed kgodey closed 6 months ago

kgodey commented 6 months ago

Fixes #3428

This PR makes the following changes:

Reasoning for page removal

The page (see live version) attempted to document two things:

(1) How to set up a Mathesar internal database if you're connecting to an external DB

These steps were out of date anyway, since they referred to configuring the DB via environment variables. Also, it is my understanding that we don't need to perform any steps after the new DB connection UI work in 0.1.4 and that we'll create the internal database automatically. So I removed it.

(2) How to configure Mathesar to point at a database on the host server if you're using Docker

My first instinct was to move this to the "Optional configurations" section of the Docker compose installation, and I spent some time doing that and making the documentation more concise. Then I realized that

It didn't seem like it was worth cleaning up or having this documentation, so I removed it.

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kgodey commented 6 months ago

@mathemancer please double check my reasoning here, that's the main thing I'm asking you to review.

@seancolsen also added you as a reviewer in case you wanted to look at the index page changes.

kgodey commented 6 months ago

@mathemancer Thanks for the feedback. As discussed on our call yesterday, I've:

I decided not to change the build from source page because Set up the database > Step 3 already documents creating the internal database, and Install the Mathesar application > Step 2 also documents setting the environment variables. I'm not sure what we could add there.

seancolsen commented 6 months ago

@kgodey I think this PR should target the 0.1.5 branch now, right?