Problem installing PostgreSQL 12 on CentOS 8

Question

Installing PostgreSQL 12:

sudo dnf install @postgresql:12

Then, contrib package for additional features: sudo dnf install postgresql-contrib

Afterwards, when I try to initialize the PostgreSQL database:

sudo postgresql-setup initdb

I'm getting: sudo: postgresql-setup: command not found

Also, when I try to check the status:

 sudo systemctl status postgresql

Getting this error: Unit postgresql.service could not be found.

What I'm doing wrong? If this way of installing is wrong, is there another option to install postgresql on centos?

Did you follow all steps from postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat for CentOS 8 ? Make sure to follow exact steps from this link. — pifor
– pifor, Commented Mar 25, 2020 at 8:48

TJ Zimmerman · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-22 17:09:54Z

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You have only installed the PostgreSQL client application on your server. In order to install the server software, you need to install the postgresql-server package which will satisfy those package dependencies. Afterwards you can follow this documentation to continue provisioning, configuring, and maintaining your new database.

https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/

This gist of which, as you originally mentioned, is simply:

  postgresql-setup initdb
  systemctl enable postgresql.service --now

edited Sep 22, 2020 at 17:09

answered Mar 28, 2020 at 5:12

TJ Zimmerman

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