Saturday, 29 December 2018

Installation and Configuration of PostgreSQL on CentOS 7


Postgres, is a relational database management system that provides an implementation of the SQL querying language. It is a popular choice for many small and large projects and has the advantage of being standards-compliant and having many advanced features like reliable transactions and concurrency without read locks.

In This post we will discuss how to install and configure PostgreSQL on CentOS 7.

1) CentOS's default repositories contain Postgres packages, so we can install them without a hassle using the yum package system.
yum install postgres* -y

2) Once the PostgreSQL software is installed, we have to perform a few steps before we can use it.
postgresql-setup initdb

3) Start and enable postgresql service
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql

4) PostgreSQL installation will create a new user called postgres in VM which can auto login to psql.
By default, PostgreSQL does not allow password authentication.
To disable this first we need set a password for postgres user by following below steps.

su postgres
psql   # you will be login to postgresql client interface
\password  # it will prompt for password for postgresql
\q     # it will quit from psql

Then we need to edit its host-based authentication (HBA) configuration.
vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
Before Configuration change
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     peer
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            ident
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 ident

After configuration changes
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     md5
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5


5) Restart the postgresql service to reflect config changes.

sudo systemctl restart postgresql

6) Now please try to connect to postgresql with provided creds earlier and start creating your databases and schemas as per your application requirements.

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