Troubleshooting¶
Schema for tenant and domain models¶
The application(s) that contain the tenant model and the domain model should be
in the public schema only. Making those models available in other schemas will
most likely cause serious bugs. This package will raise an error check if the
tenant / domain application is found missing in
settings.TENANTS["public"]["APPS"]
or present in other tenant configuration.
You can silence this check through the code pgschemas.W001
.
Content types¶
Installing django.contrib.contenttypes
outside of the public schema can lead
to problems when using other static or dynamic schemas. The recommended approach
is to have this app in settings.TENANTS["public"]["APPS"]
. This package
will raise a warning check if the content types app is found somewhere else.
You can silence this check through the code pgschemas.W002
.
Session leaking¶
Configuring users in a multi-tenant application can be challenging, because
the user model(s) can be installed on any schema. Depending on the scope of your
desired authentication mechanism, you should decide whether the user app will
leave in the public schema or in each of the other static or dynamic schemas.
If you do the latter, consdier that the same user ID could be repeated in
multiple schemas. User ID is what makes authentication possible via the sessions
app. In order to prevent session leaking, the recommended approach is to always
put the user app and the session app together. This package will raise a warning
check if the user app and the session app are found to not be together in the
same schemas. You can silence this check through the code pgschemas.W003
.
Moving apps between schemas¶
Regardless of which apps you have included in each schema, migrations will be
tracked as being run on all of them. If you move an app between schemas, the
tables will not be created in the destination schema, because migrations are
considered to be run there already. In order to overcome this, you must remove
all migrations of said app via manage.py migrate app zero --fake -s schema
and then run migrations again.
In order to remove the tables from the source app, you will have to actually do a zero migrate before removing the app from the said schema apps.
Name clash between static and dynamic schemas¶
It is possible to define a static tenant whose name clashes with an existing dynamic tenant. This is especially true for the clone reference, which can be added as an afterthought in order to speed up dynamic tenant creation. It is also possible to create a dynamic tenant with a name already present in the static tenant configuration.
We do not provide an out-of-the-box validation mechanism for dynamic tenants
upon creation, as attempt to prevent name clashes with static tenants.
However, we do provide a system check that fails with a critical error message
if a name clash is found. Since this check must query the database in order to
fetch the schema name for all dynamic tenants, it is tagged as a database check,
which makes it run only in database related operations and management commands.
This means that the check will not be run via runserver
, but will be run in
commands like migrate, cloneschema and
createrefschema. If absolutely needed, you can silence this check
through the code pgschemas.W004
.