On 7/20/2016 4:48 PM, Steve Langlois wrote:
I am upgrading an existing system running CentOS 5.6 with Postgres
8.2.5 to CentOS 7 with 9.2.15. The original system modified the
postgresql script to manually running postmaster to start the database
under the current user control. So it is really for compatibility with
the rest of the code.
'because we did it this way 10 years ago' is a lousy excuse, but whatever.
if you're upgrading the OS and database and everything, why are you
stopping at 9.2? that version is already 80% through its support life
cycle, I would use 9.4 or 9.5 for maximum support longetivity. 9.1 is
on its final release, 9.2 will likely be desupported in a year or so.
So currently to create the database I run:
/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=/usr/test/databases/pgsql/data --auth=ident
And to start the database with:
/usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /usr/test/databases/pgsql/data
If local is used for unix domain socket connections do I change --auth
to --auth-local=ident for initdb?
to work with the standard centos/rhel builds, you should use su or sudo
to run those commands as the postgres user, rather than whatever this
current user is, otherwise you'll be in a continuous world of hurt.
really, its much easier to just use the systemctl stuff to start/stop.
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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