Re: PostgreSql Service different path

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 6:38 AM chris navarroza
<canavarroza(dot)work(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> I install postgresql14.5 with the following commands
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> sudo yum install postgresql14-server postgresql14-contrib
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> sudo su postgres
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> cd /tmp
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> /usr/pgsql-14/bin/initdb -D /home/dmartuser/pgsql/14/data
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> and update the postgresql.conf to the new path, now when I start the service, it has an error and when I check it says
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> -- Unit postgresql-14.service has begun starting up.
> Oct 24 15:16:45 datamartds postgresql-14-check-db-dir[132338]: "/var/lib/pgsql/14/data/" is missing or empty.
> Oct 24 15:16:45 datamartds postgresql-14-check-db-dir[132338]: Use "/usr/pgsql-14/bin/postgresql-14-setup initdb" to initialize the database cluster.
> Oct 24 15:16:45 datamartds postgresql-14-check-db-dir[132338]: See /usr/share/doc/postgresql14/README.rpm-dist for more information.
> Oct 24 15:16:45 datamartds systemd[1]: postgresql-14.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
> Oct 24 15:16:45 datamartds systemd[1]: postgresql-14.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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> How can I point the service to read the new path ( /home/dmartuser/pgsql/14/data )?

The startup script that is calling systemd should perform a `mkdir -p
/var/lib/pgsql/14/data` before calling the PostgreSQL binary.

Jeff