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Joshen Lim dfd5461ef9 Opt to use connection string of read replica if available to power the table editor (#42856)
## Context

Part of dashboard scalability project

Opting to use the connection string of the project's read replica (if
available) for read queries on the database.

Trialing with the Table Editor as a first pass - changes involved will
opt to use replica connection string for `useTableRowsQuery`,
`useTableRowsCountQuery`, and `useForeignKeyConstraintsQuery`

There's definitely optimizations to be done for deciding which replica
to use - but am starting off with a rather naive logic to prioritize
replicas in the same region as the project.

## Changes involved

- We're no longer passing `connectionString` as a param into the
affected hooks, the `connectionString` is derived from within those
hooks instead
- Change is feature flagged, so things should be status quo if flag is
off (use primary database's connection string)
- Added `useConnectionStringForReadOps` hook which returns the replica's
connection string if (Otherwise defaults to primary database connection
string)
  - Feature flag is on
  - Project has a replica available

## To test

- [ ] Verify that the table editor works as expected for a project that
has read replicas (There shouldn't be any change really)
- [ ] Also just double check that updating cells in the table editor
works as well (There's no change there, we're using the primary DB's
connection string for mutation ops)
- [ ] ^ Same thing for a project that doesn't have read replicas
- [ ] ^ Same thing for local / self-host
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Supabase Studio

A dashboard for managing your self-hosted Supabase project, and used on our hosted platform. Built with:

What's included

Studio is designed to work with existing deployments - either the local hosted, docker setup, or our CLI. It is not intended for managing the deployment and administration of projects - that's out of scope.

As such, the features exposed on Studio for existing deployments are limited to those which manage your database:

  • Table & SQL editors
    • Saved queries are unavailable
  • Database management
    • Policies, roles, extensions, replication
  • API documentation

Managing Project Settings

Project settings are managed outside of the Dashboard. If you use docker compose, you should manage the settings in your docker-compose file. If you're deploying Supabase to your own cloud, you should store your secrets and env vars in a vault or secrets manager.

How to contribute?

  • Branch from master and name your branches with the following structure
    • {type}/{branch_name}
      • Type: chore | fix | feature
      • The branch name is arbitrary — just make sure it summarizes the work.
  • When you send a PR to master, it will automatically tag members of the frontend team for review.
  • Review the contributing checklists to help test your feature before sending a PR.
  • The Dashboard is under active development. You should run git pull frequently to make sure you're up to date.

Developer Quickstart

Note

Supabase internal use: To develop on Studio locally with the backend services, see the instructions in the internal infrastructure repo.

# You'll need to be on Node v20
# in /studio

## For external contributors
pnpm install # install dependencies
pnpm run dev # start dev server

## For internal contributors
## First clone the private supabase/platform repo and follow instructions for setting up mise
mise studio  # Run from supabase/platform alongside `mise infra`

## For all
pnpm run test # run tests
pnpm run test -- --watch # run tests in watch mode

Running within a self-hosted environment

Follow the self-hosting guide to get started.

cd ..
cd docker
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f ./dev/docker-compose.dev.yml up

Once you've got that set up, update .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=
SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY=

Then run the following commands to install dependencies and start the dashboard.

npm install
npm run dev

If you would like to configure different defaults for "Default Organization" and "Default Project", you will need to update the .env in the studio folder with the corresponding values.

DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_NAME=
DEFAULT_PROJECT_NAME=