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| author | Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> | 2019-02-02 13:23:26 +0900 |
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| committer | Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> | 2019-02-02 13:23:26 +0900 |
| commit | 3e938a83b2ee3b47d47cdbdf58df09946877d4fd (patch) | |
| tree | d4b9fbcdb37666e9fc38a83a0608a7aa86ae5cce /doc/src | |
| parent | 558d77f20e4e9ed18101d5d057b770ae22ece855 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-3e938a83b2ee3b47d47cdbdf58df09946877d4fd.tar.gz postgresql-3e938a83b2ee3b47d47cdbdf58df09946877d4fd.zip | |
Improve installation instructions with pg_ctl in documentation
The documentation includes sections to be able to initialize and start
Postgres via a couple of commands. Some of its recommendations involve
using directly "postgres", which is inconsistent with the recommendation
given by initdb. At the same time make some other command calls more
consistent with the rest, by using an absolute path when creating a
database.
Author: Andreas Scherbaum
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Ryan Lambert
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml | 12 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml index ee518fb9b6b..449386243b2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data su - postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 & +/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test </synopsis> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml b/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml index 62582effed2..f584789f9a4 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml @@ -77,25 +77,21 @@ postgres$ <userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</useri The previous <command>initdb</command> step should have told you how to start up the database server. Do so now. The command should look something like: -<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data</programlisting> - This will start the server in the foreground. To put the server - in the background use something like: -<programlisting>nohup /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data \ - </dev/null >>server.log 2>&1 </dev/null &</programlisting> +<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start</programlisting> </para> <para> To stop a server running in the background you can type: -<programlisting>kill `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</programlisting> +<programlisting>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data stop</programlisting> </para> </step> <step> <para> Create a database: -<screen><userinput>createdb testdb</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb testdb</userinput></screen> Then enter: -<screen><userinput>psql testdb</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql testdb</userinput></screen> to connect to that database. At the prompt you can enter SQL commands and start experimenting. </para> |