What the Data for This Category Looks Like
Data is primarily sourced from official policy documents and industry circulation standards published by the National Medical Products Administration, the Department of Pharmaceutical Circulation of the Ministry of Commerce, and provincial and municipal medical insurance bureaus. Policy documents are released on an irregular schedule. Supporting industry rules are updated quarterly. Individual documents range from hundreds to tens of thousands of words in length. Each document has a standard structure: title, main text, and attachments. Included fields are policy document number, issuing authority, effective date, applicable region, circulation link requirements, and penalty clauses. No additional percentage-based statistical fields are present.
Constraints Imposed by These Characteristics During Deployment and Upgrade
Since pharmaceutical distribution policy data is sourced from multiple scattered locations and has inconsistent update schedules, deployment requires configuring scheduling rules that support multi-data source synchronization. Deployments must adapt to official announcement formats including PDF, Word, and HTML. The wide variation in individual document lengths, from hundreds to tens of thousands of words, requires adapting long document parsing and storage workflows during deployment to prevent content truncation. Fields include structured information such as policy document number, effective date, and applicable region. Upgrades require reserving metadata extraction configuration items to ensure precise filtering during retrieval by release time and applicable region. Some documents include table attachments. Deployments must enable the table content parsing module to fully extract data such as circulation quotas and category lists.
Configuration Settings
| Configuration Item | Recommended Setting | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
DB_MAX_LINK | 10–15 concurrent connections | The pharmaceutical distribution policy knowledge base has a high volume of documents and retrieval tasks. The database connection pool must support concurrent retrieval and synchronization tasks |
MONGODB_URI | mongodb://username:password@host:27017/fastgpt?authSource=admin | Used to store vector data and metadata for long documents. Correct authentication parameters and database name must be configured |
PG_URL | postgresql://username:password@host:5432/fastgpt | Used to store user conversation records and system configurations. Must match the database version requirements of FastGPT v4.17.0 |
REDIS_URL | redis://:password@host:6379/0 | Used to cache frequently retrieved policy content to reduce database load. The default database index 0 meets requirements |
FE_DOMAIN | https://your-custom-domain.com | Used to configure the frontend access address to ensure normal operation of knowledge base preview and sharing functions |
Three Common Misconfigurations
- Phenomenon: After deployment, a power outage and restart cause PostgreSQL and MongoDB services to fail to start. Logs show connection refused or data file corruption. Cause: No persistent storage volume was configured for containers. Power outage causes in-memory database data to not be written to disk, preventing normal state restoration after restart.
- Phenomenon: After deploying with Docker Compose, new users cannot be created via the registration page. Cause: The
ROOT_KEYparameter was not configured, or user registration functionality was not enabled. Default deployment templates typically disable public registration permissions. - Phenomenon: When multiple user query requests are initiated simultaneously, some requests remain in a loading state without a response. Cause: The
DB_MAX_LINKparameter was not adjusted to a value suitable for concurrent traffic. The database connection pool is exhausted, preventing new requests from being processed.
How to Confirm Proper Configuration
- Access the configured
FE_DOMAINaddress, and confirm that the knowledge base's policy document list and retrieval interface load normally. - Submit a policy keyword retrieval request, and confirm that returned results include matching metadata fields such as policy document number and effective date.
- Manually trigger a knowledge base synchronization task, and confirm that newly uploaded policy files can be successfully imported and indexed.
- View the database connection monitoring panel, and confirm that the actual usage of
DB_MAX_LINKdoes not reach the configured limit.
The values provided are common starting points and should be measured against the reader's own samples.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-28.