Re: restart server on Lion

Hi all,

Problem resolved. The postgres server now starts automatically when my OSX Lion machine reboots. Hopefully the following info will be useful for anyone contemplating a macports installation of PostgreSQL.

The biggest impediment to getting the relaunch behavior I expected was from installing the postgresql84 package, rather than postgresql84-server. The latter package contains the LaunchDaemon wrapper script that will ultimately relaunch postgres on reboot; it also apparently corrects the postgres username clobbering that Apple "provides" with PG on Lion. Furthermore, it prints post-installation and db initialization instructions to the shell, which obviates having to glean that info from web searches ;)

Note that in my installation, I cleverly broke the LaunchDaemon wrapper's ability to relaunch postgres by making a minor change to macport's default database directly structure. Turns out their postgres initd instructions reflect paths that are hard-wired in the wrapper. Who knew?

I run PostgreSQL in a closed environment, for development and testing purposes, on my laptop. Installing a *-server package seemed overkill. Quite the contrary, that's exactly what I should've done from the beginning.

Hope this helps -
Scott

On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Scott Frankel wrote:

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> Hi M,
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> On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:46 AM, A.M. wrote:
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>> On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Scott Frankel wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> What's the best/correct way to cause the PostgreSQL server to startup automatically when rebooting on OSX 10.7 Lion?
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>>> I'm using a macports install of postgres 8.4 and went through a couple grueling days, sudo'd up to my eyeballs, to restore the postgres user and have a working installation.
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>>> To start the service, I'm currently invoking this on the cmd-line:
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>>> sudo su postgres -c "/opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/local/var/postgresql84/defaultdb -l /opt/local/var/postgresql84/defaultdb/data/logfile.txt start"
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>>> That's pretty cumbersome for each reboot. I've also seen references to manually invoking this on the cmd-line:
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>>> sudo serveradmin start postgres
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>>> But that yields "postgres:error = "CANNOT_LOAD_BUNDLE_ERR"
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>>> Is there an /etc or OSX-specific solution people are using for restarts? My PG 8.3 server restarted automagically on OSX 10.5. While I don't recall setting up anything specifically to make that happen, memory fades...
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>> MacPorts includes a launchd plist to handle this. (Perhaps "launchd" is the keyword you need to search.)
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> Aha! Nice to know which tree to bark up ;)
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>> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.postgresql90-server.plist (for PostgreSQL 9.0, of course)
>> http://od-eon.com/blogs/calvin/os-x-lion-postgresql/
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> I installed macports: postgresql84 @8.4.10_0 and there's no trace of a postgres launch daemon plist file having been installed on my machine. My best guess at this point is that the plist file may only come with the postgresql84-server @8.4.10 port.
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> I'll test that theory tomorrow and keep this list posted.
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> Thanks!
> Scott
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>> You can adjust the script to your liking.
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>> Cheers,
>> M
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