Package: patroni
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I tried to use patroni with a custom data-directory for PostgreSQL, and ran
into strange failures during bootstrap.
Note: I did try this on a Ubuntu 20.04 system, and on a different system than
the one I'm reporting this bug from.
I could see that the problem is also present in the latest Debian package
though, so reporting it here.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Sticking to the default data-directory
(/var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<clustername>) worked okay,
but trying a custom data-dir triggers the failure
* What was the outcome of this action?
Failure messages, mixup between the intended (custom) data-dir and the default
one which is still used in Postgres.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
No failure.
The root-cause seems to be a bug in the pg_createcluster_patroni file of this
package, which just ignores
the --datadir argument that patroni passes to it (namely, the DATADIR-variable
is not being used anywhere)
Suggested diff for /usr/share/patroni/pg_createcluster_patroni
- pg_createcluster --start-conf=manual $VERSION $CLUSTER
+ pg_createcluster --start-conf=manual -d "${DATADIR}" $VERSION $CLUSTER
With that change, the custom data directory is also effectively used for a new
cluster, which also worked in a test for me
Thanks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers focal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal'),
(100, 'focal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-73-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages patroni depends on:
ii lsb-base 11.1.0ubuntu2
ii python3 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
pn python3-cdiff <none>
ii python3-click 7.0-3
pn python3-dateutil <none>
pn python3-etcd | python3-consul | python3-kazoo | python3- <none>
ii python3-pkg-resources 45.2.0-1
pn python3-prettytable <none>
ii python3-psutil 5.5.1-1ubuntu4
pn python3-psycopg2 <none>
ii python3-six 1.14.0-2
pn python3-tzlocal <none>
ii python3-urllib3 1.25.8-2ubuntu0.1
ii python3-yaml 5.3.1-1ubuntu0.1
Versions of packages patroni recommends:
ii iproute2 5.5.0-1ubuntu1
Versions of packages patroni suggests:
pn etcd-server | consul | zookeeperd <none>
pn haproxy <none>
pn patroni-doc <none>
pn postgresql <none>
pn vip-manager <none>
