As a good measure install all updates to this CentOS 6 server. Before you continue further. This step is optional.
Postgres Repo:
pgdg is the repo that postgresql can be downloaded and installed from. Here is where you download it from. Identify which version of rpm you want to download for installing PostgreSQL database server. Right now I am picking PostgreSQL 9.2 for CentOS [CentOS 6 – x86_64] as this is the latest version at this time. Now that we have identified which version we want to download, right click on that hyperlink and click "copy link address".
Login into your CentOS Server by SSH and run the following command to download it into your CentOS 6 Server.
wget http://yum.pgrpms.org/9.2/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-centos92-9.2-6.noarch.rpm
If It fails and complains that you dont have wget utility installed on your machine, Install wget utility by running command
yum install wget
Now that wget utility is installed, download the rpm from PostgreSQL rpm repository
Now install this rpm with this command.
rpm -ivh pgdg-centos92-9.2-6.noarch.rpm
Now that we have installed the pgdg central PostgreSQL repo, we should have postgresql rpms show up in yum package manager search. Run the following command on command line to search for all postgres related available rpms.
yum search postgres
The following list should be generated from the search. Now install PostgreSQL client / Server programs.
Run the following commands to install PostgreSQL server/client
yum install postgresql92 postgresql92-server
You now have successfully installed PostgreSQL database server / client on this CentOS Server.
Now create default data/tables into this newly build database server by running command:
service postgresql-9.2 initdb
[Service name is postgresql-9.2 or corresponding PostgreSQL generated init file under /etc/init.d/ directory]
Start the PostgreSQL database server now.
service postgresql-9.2 start
Make your database server auto starts when this CentOS server starts/restarts.
chkconfig postgresql-9.2 on
Create an user other than default user for granting access to the database from outside world into this database server.
Login into database as postgres user, to do that run the following commands:
su postgres
psql -dpostgres
Above command some times lead to a PostgreSQL shared library issue. On some systems that have shared libraries (which most systems do) you need to tell your system how to find the newly installed shared libraries. If you did not encounter this error, please skip this step of adding path to /etc/profile file and move on to creating user.
psql: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
To fix this issue we need to add the following lines in your /etc/profile file all the way at the bottom of the file. First exit out as postgres user by typing exit on command line and add the following lines at the bottom on /etc/profile file as root user. Save and quit from here after adding those lines mentioned below.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.2/lib [Which ever path is relevant to your installation]
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Restart your CentOS Server to get the new LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set properly.
shutdown -r now
After the server is up and running, SSH in and run the following commands to create an user.
su – postgres
psql -dpostgres
Now you are inside PostgreSQL database server, so create a super user for accessing database server from outside world and exit out of there.
CREATE role opensourcedbms LOGIN PASSWORD 'opensourcedbms' SUPERUSER;
\q
Now we have created a super user for managing the database. We are almost done. To grant outside world access we need to make modifications to the database server configuration files and CentOS Server firewall rules [iptables]. First exit out as postgres user on your server and log back in as root user.
Make the changes in your database configuration file :
vi /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/postgresql.conf
Uncomment the line #listen_addresses = ‘localhost’ and change it to listen_addresses = ‘*’
The second configuration file that you need to edit in order to grant access to outside world is below [Host based authentication file]:
vi /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/pg_hba.conf
Add a new line under IPv4 local connections all the way to the near bottom of the file. Make appropriate changes to network you want this new user to login from. If your subnet is 192.168.1.1/24 or 192.168.1.1/32, please use that or what ever is relevant in you case. This rule I added indicates the database server to accept connections for this user originating with in 192.168.1.1/24 sub-net network.
host all opensourcedbms 192.168.1.1/24 md5
Now restart postgres server to get these changes in effect
service postgresql-9.2 restart
Finally open the default PostgreSQL database port in server firewall to connecting from outside world.
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Add line:
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5432 -j ACCEPT
and now restart iptables
service iptables restart
At this point you should be able to connect to this database server from clients outside this server like pgAdmin III [Download pgAdmin III and install on a host that you want to access this database from] as shown below:
If you have installed this in a virtual machine, make sure that you port forward (NAT Only) 5432 under your VM Settings > Network Settings > Advanced > Port forwarding to pass through this 5432 from main host to your VM to connect from outside VM.
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This is one of the best! Thanks for sharing in one place. Great work
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Hi, Thanks for tutorial install postgre on Centos 5.9 x64 from installing to initdb but when i started the service [FAILED] do you have solution for this one? Thanks.
what does pg startup log say ?
Sorry i forget about site after busy with my work, i just asked again today.
where i can see the pg startup log. because i really newbie with linux.
And i hope you can explain step by step installing phppgadmin for cpanel/whm. Thanks again
Alex,
pgstartup log will be be under /var/lib/pgsql/9.3 usually.
Thx, I was new to cent os
Good one, thanks it solved our problems. Keep writing.
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Thanks a ton !!!!!!!!!! Great Tutorial…..
Thanks! First time installation of centos and postgresql and with your tutorial no problem!!!
Amazing tutorial! The best I see. Thanks and congratulations for this great job.
One of the best article that I have ever found on the internet regarding Postgresql.
Prashanth, can you please also write an article about, how to take the backup/ dump of Postgresql database and then restore it?
Thanks, waiting for your reply.
Arbab,
I can do that. I will do that shortly within a week.
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Is it possible for you to add some tutorial about connecting from ArcGIS for Server to postgresql installed on CentOS?
Thank you
Best tutorial for postgre ever！
You’re awesome, man. I’d been wrestling with this for hours before I found your tutorial. Thanks a ton!
Thank you for your clean tutorial, it really helped me.
Hi, thanks for this post. This resolved the postgress issue I had. Keep posting.
Thanks! First time installation of centos and postgresql and with your tutorial no problem!!!
Thanks for the great postgres database service installation tutorial.
Thank you very much..as a newb, it helped me a lot.
Thank you so much. This helped me a lot!
I successfully got postgre installed and running. But was wondering why the webapp was not able to connect to the database. I found out that my localhost entry under /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/pg_hba.conf was set to ident instead of md5. Setting it to md5 fixed my problem. 🙂
Thanks again Prashanth Goriparthi for this useful article.
Brian
Philippines
thanx. one doesn’t find such a comprehensive howto normally. Yours is extensive.
thank you merci
Hello, want to ask when i typed "service postgresql-9.3 initdb" the result is "initializing database: [FAILED]"
i have search over the internet can’t find the resolve of my problem. I’m using centOS 5.10 [Final] x64. Thanks
check startup log located at /var/lib/pgsql/9.3 and see the error message.
yum install postgresql92 postgresql92-server
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package postgresql92.x86_64 0:9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: postgresql92-libs = 9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6 for package: postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
—> Package postgresql92-server.x86_64 0:9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
–> Running transaction check
—> Package postgresql92.x86_64 0:9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
—> Package postgresql92-libs.x86_64 0:9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-libs-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-libs-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
—> Package postgresql92-server.x86_64 0:9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6 will be installed
–> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
–> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit) for package: postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg92)
Requires: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg92)
Requires: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg92)
Requires: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: postgresql92-libs-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg92)
Requires: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: postgresql92-libs-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg92)
Requires: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit)
You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest
What minor of centos are you installing this on ?
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