Using puppet to install postgres without puppet-postgres - postgresql

Question

I am trying to install postgresql, set up a database and a user, but I am stuck at the setting up a database and use part. What I have so far is:
# Install postgres
class postgres::install {
package { [
'postgresql',
'postgresql-contrib',
]:
ensure => "installed",
}
}
But now how do I use this to create a user, database and grant all permissions on that database to that user?

Answer 1

You can do this a couple of ways, but the easiest way to do it repeatedly is with a define that calls a couple of execs:
Exec {
path => [
'/usr/local/sbin',
'/usr/local/bin',
'/usr/bin',
'/usr/sbin',
'/bin',
'/sbin',
]
}
define postgres::db_setup (
$dbname,
){
exec { "configure_db_${dbname}":
command => "pg command here using ${dbname}; touch success.txt"
creates => "db_${dbname}_success.txt"
}
}
define postgres::user_setup (
$dbuser,
$dbpassword,
$dbname,
){
exec { "configure_user_${dbuser}_on_${dbname}":
command => "pg command here using ${dbuser} on ${dbname} identified by ${dbpassword}; touch usersuccess.txt"
creates => "user_${dbuser}_success.txt"
}
Then when you call the defines:
postgres::db_setup { 'this_new_db':
dbname => 'mynewdbname'
}
postgres::db_user { 'this_new_db_user_on_dbname':
dbuser => 'mynewdbuser',
dbpassword => 'blahblah',
dbname => 'mynewdbname',
require => Postgres::Db_setup['this_new_db'],
}
This is a very dirty way to accomplish what you want by using dummy files to register when an exec has been completed. In my MySQL environment I use execs on scripts created with erb templates to allow more refined error checking.