Docker | Postgres Database is uninitialized and superuser password is not specified
Aug 5
I am using docker-compose.yml to create multiple running containers but failing to start Postgres docker server, with following logs and yes I have searched many related SO posts, but they didn't helped me out.
Creating network "complex_default" with the default driver
Creating complex_server_1 ... done
Creating complex_redis_1 ... done
Creating complex_postgres_1 ... done
Attaching to complex_postgres_1, complex_redis_1, complex_server_1
postgres_1 | Error: Database is uninitialized and superuser password is not specified.
postgres_1 | You must specify POSTGRES_PASSWORD to a non-empty value for the
postgres_1 | superuser. For example, "-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password" on "docker run".
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | You may also use "POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust" to allow all
postgres_1 | connections without a password. This is *not* recommended.
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | See PostgreSQL documentation about "trust":
postgres_1 | https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-trust.html
complex_postgres_1 exited with code 1
below is my docker-compose configuration:
version: '3'
services:
postgres:
image: 'postgres:11-alpine'
redis:
image: 'redis:latest'
server:
build:
dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
context: ./server
volumes:
- /app/node_modules
- ./server:/app
environment:
- REDIS_HOST=redis
- REDIS_PORT=6379
- PGUSER=postgres
- PGHOST=postgres
- PGDATABASE=postgres
- PGPASSWORD=postgres_password
- PGPORT=5432
as well as package.json inside server directory is following:
{
"dependencies": {
"body-parser": "^1.19.0",
"cors": "^2.8.4",
"express": "^4.16.3",
"nodemon": "^2.0.4",
"pg": "7.4.3",
"redis": "^2.8.0"
},
"scripts": {
"dev": "nodemon",
"start": "node index.js"
}
}
also for better consideration, I have attached my hands-on project structure:
A year ago it were actually working fine, Does anyone have any idea, what's going wrong here inside my docker-compose file now.
1 answer
Accepted answer · original discussion
Aug 5
A year ago it were actually working fine, Does anyone have any idea, what's going wrong here inside my docker-compose file now.
Seems like you pulled the fresh image, where in the new image you should specify Postgres user password. You can look into Dockerhub, the image is update one month ago
db:
image: postgres:11-alpine
restart: always
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: example
As the error message is self expalinatory
You must specify POSTGRES_PASSWORD to a non-empty value for the
superuser. For example, "-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password" on "docker run".
or POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust use this which is not recommended.
You may also use "POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust" to allow all
connections without a password. This is *not* recommended.
POSTGRES_PASSWORD
This environment variable is required for you to use the PostgreSQL image. It must not be empty or undefined. This environment variable sets the superuser password for PostgreSQL. The default superuser is defined by the
POSTGRES_USERenvironment variable.
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