From 8b562bf16be985f1aee9259a1088728ed1cdbfb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yury Kossakovsky <kossakovsky93@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 13:06:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update environment variable handling for n8n execution mode
 in configuration files

- Added EXECUTIONS_MODE variable to .env.example for clarity on execution settings.
- Updated docker-compose.yml to allow dynamic assignment of EXECUTIONS_MODE, defaulting to 'queue' if not set.
---
 .env.example       | 1 +
 docker-compose.yml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index b3e62bc..6727156 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ RUN_N8N_IMPORT=
 # Number of n8n worker replicas (for the n8n-worker service). Defaults to 1 if unset.
 N8N_WORKER_COUNT=
 N8N_BLOCK_FILE_ACCESS_TO_N8N_FILES=true
+EXECUTIONS_MODE=queue
 
 ############
 # [optional]
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 50c7810..63de05a 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ x-n8n: &service-n8n
     DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
     DB_POSTGRESDB_USER: postgres
     DB_TYPE: postgresdb
-    EXECUTIONS_MODE: queue
+    EXECUTIONS_MODE: ${EXECUTIONS_MODE:-queue}
     LANGCHAIN_API_KEY: ${LANGCHAIN_API_KEY}
     LANGCHAIN_ENDPOINT: ${LANGCHAIN_ENDPOINT}
     LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2: ${LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2}