Re: How to start several PostgreSQL clusters at boot time on a Debian OS

On 10/15/2014 03:18 AM, Léa Massiot wrote:
> Hello and thank you for reading my post.
>
> My question is about starting PostgreSQL clusters at boot time.
>
> The OS is Debian Wheezy.
> I have installed PostgreSQL from the sources (postgresql-9.3.5.tar.gz) at
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v9.3.5/.
>
> In a shell and logged as "unprivileged_user" (a user which is not "root"), I
> presently have two clusters that I can start manually like this:
> unprivileged_user> pg_ctl start -D /where/cluster1/is/located/pgcluster1 -l
> /where/cluster1/is/located/pgcluster1.log
> unprivileged_user> pg_ctl start -D /where/cluster2/is/located/pgcluster2 -l
> /where/cluster2/is/located/pgcluster2.log
>
> I would like to start the clusters at boot time and I would like them to be
> started as the non-root user "unprivileged_user".
> I would need a "/etc/init.d/" script...

Are you aware that 9.3 is available for Wheezy from the Postgres Apt Repo?:

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/debian/

If you use the package you can get what you want built in, using
pg_createcluster among other tools.

>
> Can you advise me how to do that?
> Best regards.
>
>
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