Project Open Dockerfile postgres not starting - postgresql

Question

I'm trying to use the Dockerfile provided here and on building docker build . I get the error on line 69 (RUN createuser -s projop) which reports:
Step 15/27 : RUN /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D "/var/lib/pgsql/data" start
---> Using cache
---> ce049ebe4ff5
Step 16/27 : RUN sleep 60
---> Using cache
---> bf7bac638da6
Step 17/27 : RUN createuser -s projop # database user "projop" with admin rights
---> Running in 700e6e618060
createuser: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
My inital thought was the the postgres server had not had enough time to start up from the lines before so I extended the sleep command up to 60 seconds, but I still got this same error.
I also opened a bash session with a intermediate container after the sleep with docker run -it bf7bac638da6 bash. Within this bash session I tried to manually run the createuser -s projop line which gave the same error.
However, if I reran the command /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D "/var/lib/pgsql/data" start and then createuser -s projop it would work.
This is quite od as it seems the initial start command is not taking effect. Any ideas what might be happening here?
Here's the full Dockerfile:
#
# Dockerfile for ]project-open[ V5.0 on CentOS 7
#
FROM centos:centos7
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Install base packages
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RUN yum -y install wget net-tools setools
#RUN yum -y install cvs expat expat-devel pango graphviz-devel ImageMagick openldap-clients mlocate sharutils
# Install Perl libraries
#RUN yum -y install graphviz-perl perl perl-Archive-Tar perl-Archive-Zip perl-CGI perl-CGI-Session
#RUN yum -y install perl-CPAN perl-CPAN-Changes perl-CPAN-Meta perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML
#RUN yum -y install perl-Carp perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 perl-Crypt-DES perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA
#RUN yum -y install perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-DBD-Pg
#RUN yum -y install perl-DBD-Pg-tests perl-DBI perl-Data-Dumper perl-DateTime perl-Digest-MD5
#RUN yum -y install perl-Encode perl-File-Slurp perl-GSSAPI perl-IO-Socket-IP perl-IO-Socket-SSL
#RUN yum -y install perl-JSON perl-LDAP perl-LWP-MediaTypes perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-Net-DNS
#RUN yum -y install perl-Net-HTTP perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Params-Check perl-Params-Util perl-Params-Validate
#RUN yum -y install perl-Socket perl-TimeDate perl-WWW-Curl perl-YAML perl-core perl-devel perl-gettext
#RUN yum -y install perl-libs perl-libwww-perl rrdtool-perl perl-YAML
#RUN yum -y install libdbi-dbd-pgsql
# Install OpenOffice
#RUN yum -y install libreoffice libreoffice-headless
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Download ]po[ distro files
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKDIR /usr/src/
RUN wget -q http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-open/files/project-open/Support%20Files/naviserver-4.99.8.tgz &&\
wget -q http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-open/files/project-open/Support%20Files/web_projop-aux-files.5.0.0.0.0.tgz &&\
wget -q http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-open/files/project-open/V5.0/update/project-open-Update-5.0.2.4.0.tgz
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create user projop and unpack ]po[ files an
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKDIR /usr/local
RUN tar xzf /usr/src/naviserver-4.99.8.tgz # extract the NaviServer binary 64 bit
RUN mkdir /web/ # super-directory for all Web servers /web/ by default
RUN groupadd projop # create a group called "projop"
RUN useradd -d /web/projop -g projop projop # create user "projop" with home directory /web/projop
# RUN chown -R projop:projop /web/projop # set ownership to all files
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Install PostgreSQL
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RUN yum -y install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-contrib
# Run the rest of the commands as user postgres
USER postgres
RUN /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D "/var/lib/pgsql/data" initdb
RUN echo "host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5" >> /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
RUN echo "listen_addresses='*'" >> /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
RUN /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D "/var/lib/pgsql/data" start
RUN sleep 60
RUN createuser -s projop # database user "projop" with admin rights
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup the /web/projop folder
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
USER projop
WORKDIR /web/projop/
RUN tar xzf /usr/src/web_projop-aux-files.5.0.0.0.0.tgz # extract auxillary files
RUN tar xzf /usr/src/project-open-Update-5.0.2.4.0.tgz # extract the ]po[ product source code - latest
RUN createdb --encoding=utf8 --owner=projop projop # new database
# RUN createlang plpgsql projop # enable PlPg/SQL, may already be installed
WORKDIR /web/projop
RUN psql -f /web/projop/pg_dump.5.0.2.4.0.sql > /web/projop/import.log 2>&1
# Expose the ]p[ and PostgreSQL port
EXPOSE 8000 5432
# Add VOLUMEs to allow backup of config, logs and databases
VOLUME ["/etc/postgresql", "/var/log/postgresql", "/var/lib/postgresql"]
# Set the default command to run when starting the container
CMD ["/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/postgres", "-D", "/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main", "-c", "config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf"]