Re: First time installing

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> # systemctl start postgresql
> Failed to start postgresql.service: Unit not found.
>
> Am I missing a step?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick . [mailto:nagemnna(at)gmail(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:39 PM
> To: Ron Watkins
> Cc: pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: First time installing
>
> Make sure the service is running.
>
> As root: systemctl start postgresql
>
> As a user:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/server-start.html
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Trying to follow documentation. I installed RPM’s but unable to
> > connect to server…
> >
> > CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
> >
> >
> >
> > Package postgresql10-10.2-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 already installed and
> > latest version
> >
> > Package postgresql10-server-10.2-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 already installed
> > and latest version
> >
> >
> >
> > # su - postgres
> >
> > -bash-4.2$ psql
> >
> > psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> >
> > Is the server running locally and accepting
> >
> > connections on Unix domain socket
> > "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> >
> >
> >
> > There are no files under /var/run/post*
> >
> >
> >
> > What am I missing here?
>
>
>

RHEL/CentOS does not enable the service nor create a cluster by default
after package installation. Plug in your versions to this form and it will
give you all the commands to run to get the package managed cluster
installed

https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/