postgres-formula

A formula to install and configure PostgreSQL server.

Table of Contents

• General notes
• Contributing to this repo
• Available states
  • postgres
  • postgres.client
  • postgres.manage
  • postgres.python
  • postgres.server
  • postgres.server.image
  • postgres.upstream
• Removal states
  • postgres.dropped
  • postgres.server.remove
  • postgres.client.remove
  • postgres.dev.remove
• Testing
  • kitchen converge
  • kitchen verify
  • kitchen destroy
  • kitchen test
  • kitchen login

General notes

See the full SaltStack Formulas installation and usage instructions.

If you are interested in writing or contributing to formulas, please pay attention to the Writing Formula Section.

If you want to use this formula, please pay attention to the FORMULA file and/or git tag, which contains the currently released version. This formula is versioned according to Semantic Versioning.

See Formula Versioning Section for more details.

Contributing to this repo

Commit message formatting is significant!!

Please see How to contribute for more details.

Available states

• postgres
• postgres.client
• postgres.manage
• postgres.python
• postgres.server
• postgres.server.image
• postgres.upstream

postgres

Installs and configures both PostgreSQL server and client with creation of various DB objects in the cluster. This state applies to both Linux and MacOS.

postgres.client

Installs the PostgreSQL client binaries and libraries on Linux.

postgres.manage

Creates such DB objects as: users, tablespaces, databases, schemas and extensions. See pillar.example file for details.

postgres.python

Installs the PostgreSQL adapter for Python on Linux.

postgres.server

Installs the PostgreSQL server package on Linux, prepares the DB cluster and starts the server using packaged init script, job or unit.

Note

For PostgreSQL server before version 10 to work inside a FreeBSD Jail set sysvshm=new and sysvsem=new. DO NOT SET allow.sysvipc=1. It defeats the purpose of using Jails.

Further information: https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/freebsd-jails-and-sysv-ipc/

postgres.server.image

Installs the PostgreSQL server package on Linux, prepares the DB cluster and starts the server by issuing raw pg_ctl command. The postgres:bake_image Pillar toggles this behaviour. For example:

postgres:
  bake_image: True

If set True, then it becomes possible to fully provision PostgreSQL with all supported entities from postgres.manage state during the build ("baking") of AMI / VM / Container images (using Packer, Docker or similar tools), i.e. when OS init process is not available to start the service and enable it on "boot" of resulting appliance.

Also it allows to make Docker images with PostgreSQL using functionality being available since Salt 2016.11.0 release:

salt 'minion.with.docker' dockerng.sls_build my-postgres base=centos/systemd mods=postgres

If a lookup dictionary or Pillar has postgres:bake_image set False (this is default), it is equivalent of applying postgres.server state.

postgres.upstream

Configures the PostgreSQL Official (upstream) repository on target system if applicable.

The state relies on the postgres:use_upstream_repo Pillar value which could be set as following:

• True (default): adds the upstream repository to install packages from
• False: makes sure that the repository configuration is absent
• 'postgresapp' (MacOS) uses upstream PostgresApp package repository.
• 'homebrew' (MacOS) uses Homebrew postgres

The postgres:version Pillar controls which version of the PostgreSQL packages should be installed from the upstream Linux repository. Defaults to 9.5.

Removal states

postgres.dropped

Meta state to remove Postgres software. By default the release installed by formula is targeted only. To target multiple releases, set pillar postgres.remove.multiple_releases: True.

postgres.server.remove

Remove server, lib, and contrib packages. The postgres.server.remove will retain data by default (no data loss) - set pillar postgres.remove.data: True to remove data and configuration directories also.

postgres.client.remove

Remove client package.

postgres.dev.remove

Remove development and python packages.

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

kitchen converge

Creates the docker instance and runs the postgres main state, ready for testing.

kitchen verify

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

kitchen destroy

Removes the docker instance.

kitchen test

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

kitchen login

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.