From 84a7730f47ab23b0066491b755d7163dc2d00457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxime Beauchemin Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:06:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [docs] making it clear sqlite shouldn't be used in a cluster (#3965) --- docs/installation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 3d043b8bc..cef5cb4e3 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -498,6 +498,11 @@ look something like: RESULTS_BACKEND = RedisCache( host='localhost', port=6379, key_prefix='superset_results') +Note that it's important that all the worker nodes and web servers in +the Superset cluster share a common metadata database. +This means that SQLite will not work in this context since it has +limited support for concurrency and +typically lives on the local file system. Also note that SQL Lab supports Jinja templating in queries, and that it's possible to overload