How to use Postgres with serviceman?

[ryanburnette]

Can I make postgres a system service in macos with serviceman?

[coolaj86]

Yes.

# Mac (Login / Launch Agent)
sudo env PATH="$PATH" \
    serviceman add --name postgres --path "${PATH}" --user -- \
    postgres -D "$HOME/.local/share/postgres/var" -p 5432

# Linux (or System Boot / Launch Daemon on Mac)
sudo env PATH="$PATH" \
    serviceman add --name postgres --path "${PATH}" \
      --system --username "$(id -u -n)" --force -- \
    postgres -D "$HOME/.local/share/postgres/var" -p 5432 \
      --unix-socket-directories="$HOME/.local/share/postgres/var/run/"

The --force is necessary because serviceman gets confused thinking that --foo=/bar describes a file (it expects --foo /bar, but that should be fixed).

[coolaj86]

This is now much more clearly (and correctly) in https://webinstall.dev/postgres as part of #908