Re: 9.5 CentOS 7 setting PGDATA for systemctl

> On May 22, 2016, at 07:50, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On 05/21/2016 10:27 PM, Tory M Blue wrote:
>> Evening, morning, or afternoon,
>>
>> So I'm trying to go back to a stock rpm package (vs my full custom,
>> builds). This is a learning curve, not only because it's all "whacked
>> pathing (in my eyes:)) but rhel7 is a #$%$# with all the things they
>> changed.
>
> So where did you get the 'stock' RPM's from, CentOS or the Postgres repos?

Postgres yum repos (I like this btw)

>
>>
>> Sooo
>>
>> I've got servers built and I've got the correct data path initialized
>> and postgres can start the db " /usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/pg_ctl -D
>> /pgsql/9.5/data -l logfile start"
>>
>> But obviously systemctl start postgresql-9.5.server loses it's head
>> because it has no idea where my Data directory is and setting , PGDATA
>> as a variable, doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> So how do I kick CentOS 7 in the teeth and make it change it's
>> attitude regarding where I have put things? /var/lib/pgsql (really?)
>> I don't want to do symlinks.
>>
>> I've got it installed and running, but postgres can't be the only
>> place to start/stop the server. I need systemctl to handle these tasks
>> as well.
>>
>> The init program is all kinds of weirdness.
>
> This would be the init program included with the RPM?
>
> Is it written for traditional init or systemd?

Systemd , systemctl .

Thanks
Tory

>
>
>>
>> Any pointers, as I'm starting to lose sleep over this! :)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tory
>>
>> PGDATA=`sed -n 's/Environment=PGDATA=//p' "${SERVICE_FILE}"`
>>
>> and
>>
>> # this parsing technique fails for PGDATA pathnames containing spaces,
>>
>> # but there's not much I can do about it given systemctl's output format...
>>
>> PGDATA=`systemctl show -p Environment "${SERVICE_NAME}.service" |
>>
>> sed 's/^Environment=//' | tr ' ' '\n' |
>>
>> sed -n 's/^PGDATA=//p' | tail -n 1`
>>
>> if [ x"$PGDATA" = x ]; then
>>
>> echo "failed to find PGDATA setting in ${SERVICE_NAME}.service"
>>
>> exit 1
>>
>> fi
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com