Regular users should almost never attempt building and running from the master
branch. Instead,
they should build and run the latest release tag. The tags can be listed using the git tag
command. Pre-release tags (eg things like 12.0.0-preX
) should also be avoided in most cases.
git clone git@github.com:input-output-hk/cardano-db-sync.git
cd cardano-db-sync
git checkout <latest-official-tag> -b tag-<latest-official-tag>
docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f
The PostgreSQL database is exposed on localhost port 5432
$ psql -h 0.0.0.0 -p 5432 -U postgres -d cexplorer
(then enter secret password)
Release 13.1.0.0
introduced new flag POSTGRES_ARGS
inside
docker-compose.yml file wih
reccomended default values for maintenance_work_mem
and max_parallel_maintenance_workers
parameters.
- default start
docker compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f
docker ps | grep postgres
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
fe5fa531761a postgres:11.18-alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" 8 seconds ago Up 7 seconds (health: starting) 0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp, :::5432->5432/tcp cardano-db-sync-postgres-1
docker exec -it fe5fa531761a bash
fe5fa531761a:/# psql -U postgres -c "SHOW ALL" | grep maintenance
maintenance_work_mem | 1GB | Sets the maximum memory to be used for maintenance operations.
max_parallel_maintenance_workers | 4 | Sets the maximum number of parallel processes per maintenance operation.
- setting custom values through
POSTGRES_ARGS
:
export POSTGRES_ARGS="-c maintenance_work_mem=2GB -c max_parallel_maintenance_workers=8"
docker compose up && docker-compose logs -f
docker exec -it b73d677399de bash
b73d677399de:/# psql -U postgres -c "SHOW ALL" | grep maintenance
maintenance_work_mem | 2GB | Sets the maximum memory to be used for maintenance operations.
max_parallel_maintenance_workers | 8 | Sets the maximum number of parallel processes per maintenance operation.
SHOW
displays the current setting of run-time parameters. Be aware that it can differ from the values in postgresql.conf
.
To connect to different network (preprod or preview) use NETWORK
environment variable:
NETWORK=preprod docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f
Excluding the NETWORK
ENV will simply just call the cardano-db-sync
executable
as the entrypoint, so you must pass a command and
arguments in this case to provide config at runtime. The --schema-dir
argument is preset,
so is not required.
Using Docker run to demonstrate, but can be achieved using docker-compose
too via
service.command
docker run \
-v $PWD/config/network/mainnet/cardano-db-sync:/config \
-v $PWD/config/network/mainnet/genesis:/genesis \
-v $PWD/node-ipc:/node-ipc \
ghcr.io/input-output-hk/cardano-db-sync:13.1.1.2-docker \
run --config /config/config.yaml --socket-path /node-ipc/node.socket # command
nix build .#dockerImage
docker load -i ./result
Restoring a database by running from gensis can take a number of hours, snapshots are provided for
Mainnet to restore the postgres database. See the
latest releases for a recent snapshot
matched with the cardano-db-sync
version.
To download and restore a snapshot include RESTORE_SNAPSHOT
:
RESTORE_SNAPSHOT=https://update-cardano-mainnet.iohk.io/cardano-db-sync/db-sync-snapshot-schema-10-block-6014140-x86_64.tgz \
docker-compose up && docker-compose logs -f
The snapshot is downloaded in current working directory. Setting the working directory should allow to choose where the download is done.
For docker-compose
:
cardano-db-sync:
image: ghcr.io/input-output/cardano-db-sync:13.1.1.2-docker
...
working_dir: /var/lib/cexplorer
volumes:
- db-sync-data:/var/lib/cexplorer
- node-ipc:/node-ipc
restart: on-failure
...
After starting docker-compose
the snapshot file should be downloaded to specified directory
which exact location can be found by using docker volume inspect
command:
docker volume inspect cardano-db-sync_db-sync-data
[
{
"CreatedAt": "2022-11-08T12:44:55+01:00",
"Driver": "local",
"Labels": {
"com.docker.compose.project": "cardano-db-sync",
"com.docker.compose.version": "1.29.2",
"com.docker.compose.volume": "db-sync-data"
},
"Mountpoint": "/var/snap/docker/common/var-lib-docker/volumes/cardano-db-sync_db-sync-data/_data",
"Name": "cardano-db-sync_db-sync-data",
"Options": null,
"Scope": "local"
}
]
for docker
use --workdir=
.
Consult the configuration docs for what these options mean, assuming you have read that
they can be accessed via env variables passed to docker-compose. Leave out any that do not make sense, eg if
you just want to disable the ledger use DISABLE_LEDGER=Y docker-compose up
.
DISABLE_LEDGER=Y \
EXTRA_DB_SYNC_ARGS="--disable-cache --disable-epoch" \
docker-compose up
Create a pgpass-test
file with the credentials of (taken from config/secrets/postgres_* files):
echo "localhost:5432:cexplorer:postgres:v8hlDV0yMAHHlIurYupj" > config/pgpass-test
chmod 0600 config/pgpass-test
inside config/pgpass-test
Startup docker postgres via:
docker-compose -f docker-test.yml up
Setup database with tables:
PGPASSFILE=$PWD/config/pgpass-test \
cabal run cardano-db-tool run-migrations -- --mdir schema/ --ldir .
Running the tests:
PGPASSFILE=$PWD/config/pgpass-test \
cabal test cardano-db
When you've finished with testing either docker-compose down or Ctl-C the terminal session.
docker-compose down -f docker-test.yml
Assuming a base OSX machine with Nix installed. Building a Docker image for cardano-db-sync requires a Linux host to compile on. Nix provides a way to do remote builds
Prerequisites:
- shell account on NixOS Linux machine (ask on Slack) eg. builder@x86_64-linux.example.com
Assuming you want a Linux x86 image run:
nix build .#legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.dockerImage \
--builders 'ssh://builder@x86_64-linux.example.com x86_64-linux'
At the end it will generate a tar.gz
file
eg /nix/store/arbrn0fs54whkn64m0wrcbl9hjd35byn-docker-image-cardano-db-sync.tar.gz
that can be loaded into docker and run as a normal image.
$ docker load -i /nix/store/arbrn0fs54whkn64m0wrcbl9hjd35byn-docker-image-cardano-db-sync.tar.gz
$ docker image ls
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
inputoutput/cardano-db-sync 066b747a8bfd3791b06ea46c2e793f83ed64967f f34b029e9c5c 15 hours ago 911MB
# Run this as
$ docker run inputoutput/cardano-db-sync:066b747a8bfd3791b06ea46c2e793f83ed64967f
Edit the docker-compose.yml to add a listening port for the postgres container e.g.
services:
postgres:
...
restart: on-failure
ports:
- "5432:5432"
logging:
...
Follow the instructions from Restore from Snapshot
and wait until the snapshot has restored.
Create a pgpass-local
file with the credentials of (taken from config/secrets/postgres_* files):
echo "localhost:5432:cexplorer:postgres:v8hlDV0yMAHHlIurYupj" > config/pgpass-local
chmod 0600 config/pgpass-local
Run SMASH-server
PGPASSFILE=config/pgpass-test cabal exec -- cardano-smash-server \
--config config/mainnet-config.yaml \
--port 3100
See smash documentation for querying the SMASH-server