问题
I am attempting to start a Postgres SQL server on amazon Linux using the command
sudo service postgresql start
I installed the server using this method. I have added it here for simplicity
sudo rpm -i https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.6/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-ami201503-96-9.6-2.noarch.rpm
and then
sudo yum install postgresql96-server.x86_64
after which i did this to install the command line tools for postgres
sudo yum install postgresql96.x86_64 postgresql96-libs.x86_64
Any suggestions on how I can start the server ? I usually start the server using the command
sudo service postgresql start
however its not working in this case as it says "Unrecognized service" I then tried this
postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
postgres: could not access directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data": No such file or directory. Run initdb or pg_basebackup to initialize a PostgreSQL data directory.
回答1:
Having the same issue, or similar. May be I installed pgsql from source, don't remember. We could make our own service start files. How? Let's find out! >>RTFM<< starting with what we already know:
man service
which leads us to chkconfig(8), so
man chkconfig
and it gives us an option
chkconfig --add ${svcname}
to add a brand new service under a name we choose!
But before we do, we might actually want to check what's already there. With
service --status-all
we get a list of all known services and their run status. And I found "postmaster" in my list, and as you might know, the PostgreSQL master server to connect to used to be called "postmaster". Yet, when I try
service postmaster status
it also tells me it doesn't know such service. OK, forget it -- for now -- just let's move on with making our own! But I still want to peek what there is in run-level 3 (normal server run level). So I go
ls -1 /etc/rc.d/rc3.d |fgrep post
and there I find: "K36postgresql95"! So, accordingly our service name should be "postgresql95". Trying that:
service postgresql95 status
it says now "postmaster is stopped". Confusingly the name the service reports for itself both in service --status-all and when we individually inquire for it is different than the name used to actually address it in the service command. Good to know. Easy enough to search /etc/rc.d for the name of interest.
service postgresql95 start
now starts the service. And check with
psql -U ${pguser} ${pgdb}
and I find that working. So now all I need to do is enable that service at system boot to auto-start
chkconfig --levels 3 postgresql95 on
and that works, doesn't it?
PS: It doesn't matter that I happen to run version 9.5
回答2:
I recently installed PostgreSQL 9.2.24 on Amazon Linux 2 and I had to initialize the database manually before being able to create ROLE and DATABASE as I normally would on Ubuntu.
// initialize database after installing with yum
$ sudo postgresql-setup initdb
// start
$ sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53453173/starting-a-postgres-sql-9-6-server-on-amazon-linux-returns-unrecognized-service