The first commit on this branch embedded ${seat:mesh-store:5432} directly
inside MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES's URL. That placeholder resolves to an empty
string whenever mesh-store is on its own default port (novox/hq
internal/catalogue/seat_into.go: 'the mesh raised on the catalogue's own
ports never gives them a setting at all') -- which produces a malformed
connection string (host:/postgres) on exactly the common case, a fresh,
non-adopted mesh. It only worked here because novox's mesh-store happens to
be adopted at a non-default port.
mesh-controller's own manifest already has the right shape for this --
internal/envfile/port.go's NAME / NAME_PORT twin, composed by
mesh-controller's Placed(): the base value keeps its own port; a separate
_PORT variable carries the override, spliced in only when it says
something, and left alone -- not a fault -- when it's an unfilled
placeholder (a manifest ahead of the running controller).
Reverted the manifest to its original base value, added
MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES_PORT as the twin, and taught client.ts (the only
consumer -- both tools/ and provisioner/ import it) the same precedence
envfile.Placed uses. Checked: no other file in the module reads
MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES directly.
MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES was a literal connection string naming port 5432 --
correct only when mesh-store happens to run on the mesh's own default. On
novox, mesh-store was adopted in place at HAL's original port (6852), and
the provisioner has been retrying-and-failing against 127.0.0.1:5432 ever
since, for every consumer including ones that already exist (gitea, umami,
mesh-catalog), not just a new grant.
Fixed with the same ${seat:mesh-store:5432} template mesh-controller's own
manifest already uses for the identical connection. No other module needed
this fix checked -- lavinmq's MESH_PROVISION_LAVINMQ already used
127.0.0.1:15672 unconditionally, but the broker's management port is fixed
by the module itself (127.0.0.1:15672 in lavinmq/module.json's own ports),
not by adoption, so it isn't the same bug.