postgres

Note

See the full Salt Formulas installation and usage instructions.

Available states

postgres

Installs and configures both PostgreSQL server and client with creation of various DB objects in the cluster.

postgres.client

Installs the PostgreSQL client binaries and libraries.

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.

postgres.server

Installs the PostgreSQL server package and prepares the DB cluster.

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

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

Testing

Testing is done with the kitchen-salt.

kitchen converge

Runs the postgres main state.

kitchen verify

Runs serverspec tests on the actual instance.

kitchen test

Builds and runs tests from scratch.

kitchen login

Gives you ssh to the vagrant machine for manual testing.