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Bug 822115

Summary: spacewalk-setup on CentOS Postgres not working
Product: [Community] Spacewalk Reporter: daniel.gerne
Component: InstallationAssignee: Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) <jpazdziora>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Last Closed: 2012-05-16 16:46:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Description daniel.gerne 2012-05-16 11:30:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
The script has several issues. The documentation states that the only prerequisite is to have a database account having a password set. This misses that a database must exist (CREATE DATABASE xxx;). 

When I execute spacewalk-setup it will fail to populate db because there is no Language plpgsql. Therefore I switched to psql and created the language with 
CREATE LANGAUGE plpgsql;
Then i try again and this time the populate log will tell me 'relation xyz already exists'. I therefore delete the database and the language und recreate them. The next attempt I will get the 'no language plpgsql' error again (despite created as found in pg documentation)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.7

How reproducible:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
  
Actual results:
Failed to populate database.

Expected results:
database populated.

Additional info:
I therefore think either there is a bug in 'spacewalk-setup' or the HowToInstall is missing some steps specific for postgres when it comes to the language.
Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2012-05-16 16:46:10 UTC 
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall#PostgreSQLPre-Requisites

In order to get Spacewalk to run with PostgreSQL database backend, you need PostgreSQL 8.4 server installed on the same or different machine. Use PostgreSQLServerSetup as a guide to get the server installed and setup. 

and the https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PostgreSQLServerSetup gives step by step instructions, addressing all issues you mention.