Where should we add in powa-web.conf to change the instance name displaying

[sajiljosephs]

Need to change the instance name displayed in powa-web UI. Where should we set up this in conf ?

[rjuju]

this is for now hardcoded. the displayed name is usually stored in the powa archivist catalog, but it's ignored for the local server. would that field work for you if I made the UI use it? it would make things consistent but the downside is that you would need sql access to modify it with a plain update query (I plan to make stuff configurable via the UI but it will take some time to arrive). otherwise I could add a new configuration field, like local_server_name, in the powa-web.conf file

[sajiljosephs]

otherwise I could add a new configuration field, like local_server_name, in
the powa-web.conf file >> This should do it.

[rjuju]

Looking at implementing it, I remembered that the local server is displayed as the connection info configured in the config file in the breadcrumb, using declared host/IP:port. Using that everywhere rather than adding an alias may be a better option. So if you configure e.g.

servers={
  'myserver': {
    'host': 'production-pg',
    'port': 5432,
    [...]
  },
  'myotherserver': {
    [...]
  },
  [...]
}

you would get production-pg:5432 rather than <local> everywhere.

The problem with a new configuration option is that you can declare multiple servers in the config file, so a single alias would not work.

If you really want an alias rather than the host : port, maybe an option to display the server alias in the config file rather than the undelrying host and port would work? With the above example it would display myserver.