Chef solo how to install postgresql 9.3 and minitest

Question

I am trying to install postgresql 9.3 with chef solo from opcode recipes but I get the following error:

Chef::Exceptions::Package: No version specified, and no candidate version available for postgresql93-devel 

here is my code in attributes/default.rb but it just installs 9.1 and can't locate package for 9.3-devel.

default['postgresql']['version'] = '9.3'
default['postgresql']['client']['packages'] = ["postgresql#{node['postgresql']['version'].split('.').join}-devel"]
default['postgresql']['server']['packages'] = ["postgresql#{node['postgresql']['version'].split('.').join}-server"]
default['postgresql']['contrib']['packages'] = ["postgresql#{node['postgresql']['version'].split('.').join}-contrib"]
default['postgresql']['dir'] = "/var/lib/pgsql/#{node['postgresql']['version']}/data"
default['postgresql']['server']['service_name'] = "postgresql-#{node['postgresql']['version']}"

If I use this code instead to install 9.2 it is successful but minitest complains that version 9.3 is not installed.

default['postgresql']['version'] = '9.2'
default['postgresql']['enable_pgdg_apt'] = true
default['postgresql']['dir'] = "/etc/postgresql/9.2/main"
default['postgresql']['config']['data_directory'] = "/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main"
default['postgresql']['config']['hba_file'] = "/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/pg_hba.conf"
default['postgresql']['config']['ident_file'] = "/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/pg_ident.conf"
default['postgresql']['config']['external_pid_file'] = "/var/run/postgresql/9.2-main.pid"
default['postgresql']['config']['ssl_key_file']  = "/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key"
default['postgresql']['config']['ssl_cert_file'] = "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem"
default['postgresql']['client']['packages']  = ["postgresql-client-9.2"]
default['postgresql']['server']['packages']  = ["postgresql-9.2"]
default['postgresql']['contrib']['packages'] = ["postgresql-contrib-9.2"]

I am now using this in attributes/default.rb

default['postgresql']['password']['postgres'] = 'xxx'
default['sportdata-server']['database']['dbname'] = 'myapp_production'
default['postgresql']['pgdg']['release_apt_codename'] = 'precise'
default['postgresql']['version'] = '9.3'
default['postgresql']['config']['ssl']  = false
default['postgresql']['config']['listen_addresses']  = '*'

Answer 1

I finally abandoned the opscode postgresql cook book and went with this:

attributes/default.rb

default ['lsb']['codename'] = 'trusty'
default['postgresql']['version'] = '9.3'

In my postgresql-server recipe:

file "remove deprecated Pitti PPA apt repository" do
  action :delete
  path "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pitti-postgresql-ppa"
end

bash "adding postgresql repo" do
  user "root"
  code <<-EOC
  echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ #{node['lsb']['codename']}-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
  wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
  EOC
  action :run
end

execute "run apt-get update" do
  command 'apt-get update'
  action :run
end

packages = %w(
  libpq-dev
  git-core 
  curl 
  zlib1g-dev
  libssl-dev 
  libreadline-dev 
  libyaml-dev 
  libsqlite3-dev 
  sqlite3 
  libxml2-dev 
  libxslt1-dev
  postgresql-contrib
)

packages.each { |name| package name }

package "postgresql-#{node['postgresql']['version']}"

Answer 2

I just finished doing this with CentOS, but I've never tried on Ubuntu. I notice a couple things:

1. You didn't enable the pgdg repo for 9.3
2. You're specifying some invalid package names. I think the defaults in the cookbook should be sufficient.

Try this

default['postgresql']['version'] = '9.3'
default['postgresql']['enable_pgdg_apt'] = true

You might also need to ensure that your VM doesn't come with the default postgresql version already installed. I ran into that with CentOS.

Answer 3

This branch of the Opscode cookbook fixes the issue for me https://github.com/jackpine/postgresql/tree/feature/ubuntu1404. It is not yet merged with master: https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/postgresql/pull/150.