Sender: Daniel Gustafson <daniel.gustafson@gmail.com>
From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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Subject: Re: Correction for 9.6 documentation for OpenBSD
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 22:57:12 +0200
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> On 3 Apr 2018, at 07:29, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> =
wrote:
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/server-start.html
> Description:
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> OpenBSD 6.1 i386
> PostgreSQL 9.6
>=20
> In Section 18.3. Starting the Database Server, I did something =
different
> from the documentation. Instead of editing the file /etc/rc.local, as =
the
> documentation indicated, I ran the command
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> doas rcctl set postgresql status on
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> That command changed the file /etc/rc.conf.local. When I rebooted, the
> PostgreSQL server was running.

That=E2=80=99s because your postgresql server was installed via the =
ports system, which
provides an rc.d startup script for use with rcctl.  The referenced
documentation describes how to start the server without a service =
script.

That being said, since the ports tree is the =E2=80=9Crecommended=E2=80=9D=
 method for
installing software perhaps the documentation should mention it?  =
Perhaps
something along the lines of the below (a similar stanza could be added =
for
FreeBSD but I don=E2=80=99t it well enough to make an attempt).

cheers ./daniel

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 1c92e7df75..01f5eacfcc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ if [ -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -a -x =
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres ]; then
     su -l postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -s -l =
/var/postgresql/log -D /usr/local/pgsql/data'
     echo -n ' postgresql'
 fi
+</programlisting>
+      If <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is installed via ports, =
it can
+      be started as a service with <application>rcctl</application>:
+<programlisting>
+rcctl set postgresql status on
 </programlisting>
      </para>
     </listitem>=