User not created when setting up Keystone with Postgres

Bug report

I tried setting up Keybase following the getting started guide but on npm run dev it starts keystone but no user is created.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behaviour. Please provide code snippets or a repository:

1. init Keystone
2. install a Postgres database
3. set the user confirguration for the postgres db
4. start the server and see that no user is created

Expected behaviour

The user should be created immediately or there should be a screen that shows to create a user when starting the app like #1782.

Additional context

I tried to debug initial-data.js and changing following:

https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/blob/06bff4119a44769b359006e8e6b9e07c32b21a8e/packages/create-keystone-app/example-projects/starter/initial-data.js#L6-L10

to:

  const res = await keystone.executeQuery(
    `query {
      _allUsersMeta {
        count
      }
    }`
  )
  console.log(res)
  // Count existing users
  const {
    data: {
      _allUsersMeta: { count },
    },
  } = res;

I got following error:

{
  errors: [
    error: relation "public.User" does not exist
        at Connection.parseE (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:604:13)
        at Connection.parseMessage (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:403:19)
        at Socket.<anonymous> (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:123:22)
        at Socket.emit (events.js:210:5)
        at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:308:12)
        at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:289:11)
        at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:223:10)
        at TCP.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:182:23)
    From previous event:
        at Client_PG._query (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/postgres/index.js:236:12)
        at Client_PG.query (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:168:17)
        at Runner.query (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/runner.js:133:36)
        at ./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/runner.js:39:23
        at ./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/runner.js:253:24
        at processImmediate (internal/timers.js:439:21)
    From previous event:
        at Runner.ensureConnection (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/runner.js:251:8)
        at Runner.run (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/runner.js:25:12)
        at Builder.Target.then (./keystonejs/my-app/node_modules/knex/lib/interface.js:15:43) {
      message: 'select count(*) from "public"."User" as "t0" where true - relation "public.User" does not exist',
      locations: [Array],
      path: [Array]
    }
  ],
  data: [Object: null prototype] {
    _allUsersMeta: [Object: null prototype] { count: null }
  }
}

Not sure why.

System:

{
  "name": "@keystonejs/example-projects-starter",
  "description": "An example KeystoneJS project with a User list and Authentication.",
  "private": true,
  "version": "5.0.1",
  "author": "The KeystoneJS Development Team",
  "repository": "https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone.git",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone",
  "license": "MIT",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=8.4.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development DISABLE_LOGGING=true keystone dev",
    "build": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production keystone build",
    "start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production keystone start"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@keystonejs/adapter-knex": "^6.1.2",
    "@keystonejs/app-admin-ui": "^5.3.0",
    "@keystonejs/app-graphql": "^5.0.1",
    "@keystonejs/auth-password": "^5.0.1",
    "@keystonejs/fields": "^6.0.0",
    "@keystonejs/keystone": "^5.3.0",
    "cross-env": "^5.2.0"
  }

[MadeByMike]

Can you try setting the dropDatabase flag on the Adapter like this:

const keystone = new Keystone({
  name: PROJECT_NAME,
  adapter: new Adapter({dropDatabase:true}),
  onConnect: initialiseData,
});

That should force it to initialise

[dfinton]

@timfee - Yeah the docs need to be updated as they don’t really tell you what to do with a postgres database and the directions provided from command line are incorrect; they tell you to run npx keystone create-tables but that just spits out that error you got.

Instead of doing what the instructions tell you, you’ll need to run npm run create-tables or yarn create-tables. Then you can start up keystone in dev mode and it will create the [e-mail] user. The output of the command will tell you what the password is (it’s randomly generated).