1 files changed, 15 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
index 071202e196..0d9cf60196 100644
--- a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
+++ b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md
@@ -206,9 +206,10 @@ To do so, [configure Postgres](../postgres.md) and run `trial` with the
following environment variables matching your configuration:
- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES` to anything nonempty
-- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST`
-- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER`
-- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD`
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_HOST` (optional if it's the default: UNIX socket)
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PORT` (optional if it's the default: 5432)
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_USER` (optional if using a UNIX socket)
+- `SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD` (optional if using a UNIX socket)
For example:
@@ -220,26 +221,12 @@ export SYNAPSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mydevenvpassword
trial
```
-#### Prebuilt container
+You don't need to specify the host, user, port or password if your Postgres
+server is set to authenticate you over the UNIX socket (i.e. if the `psql` command
+works without further arguments).
-Since configuring PostgreSQL can be fiddly, we can make use of a pre-made
-Docker container to set up PostgreSQL and run our tests for us. To do so, run
+Your Postgres account needs to be able to create databases.
-```shell
-scripts-dev/test_postgresql.sh
-```
-
-Any extra arguments to the script will be passed to `tox` and then to `trial`,
-so we can run a specific test in this container with e.g.
-
-```shell
-scripts-dev/test_postgresql.sh tests.replication.test_sharded_event_persister.EventPersisterShardTestCase
-```
-
-The container creates a folder in your Synapse checkout called
-`.tox-pg-container` and uses this as a tox environment. The output of any
-`trial` runs goes into `_trial_temp` in your synapse source directory — the same
-as running `trial` directly on your host machine.
## Run the integration tests ([Sytest](https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest)).
@@ -254,8 +241,14 @@ configuration:
```sh
$ docker run --rm -it -v /path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository\:/src:ro -v /path/to/where/you/want/logs\:/logs matrixdotorg/sytest-synapse:buster
```
+(Note that the paths must be full paths! You could also write `$(realpath relative/path)` if needed.)
+
+This configuration should generally cover your needs.
+
+- To run with Postgres, supply the `-e POSTGRES=1 -e MULTI_POSTGRES=1` environment flags.
+- To run with Synapse in worker mode, supply the `-e WORKERS=1 -e REDIS=1` environment flags (in addition to the Postgres flags).
-This configuration should generally cover your needs. For more details about other configurations, see [documentation in the SyTest repo](https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md).
+For more details about other configurations, see the [Docker-specific documentation in the SyTest repo](https://github.com/matrix-org/sytest/blob/develop/docker/README.md).
## Run the integration tests ([Complement](https://github.com/matrix-org/complement)).
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