Linuxbrew, install postgres and start service automatically

Question

I install Postgresql on my Ubuntu with:

brew install postgres

now I have:

psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.5.0

How can I start the service automatically?

On my Mac with homebrew I can do it with:

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

but how on Ubuntu with Linuxbrew?

I try with:

brew services start postgresql

but it says:

sh: 1: list: not found
Error: Could not read the plist for `postgresql`!

What to do?

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '16 at 07:43

Not quite automatic but a step in the right direction. On my system I did the following:

$ pg_ctl start -D $HOME/.linuxbrew/var/postgres -l logfile

You could simple create an alias in your .bash_profile or .bashrc something like:

alias poston="pg_ctl start -D $HOME/.linuxbrew/var/postgres -l logfile"

alias postoff="pg_ctl stop -D $HOME/.linuxbrew/var/postgres"

To test it all out (assuming you do not yet have a database on your machine) you can also create a database for your current user:

$ poston
$ createdb `whoami`
$ psql

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