Speed up postgresql container without initing everytime

Author: jackliusr

content/posts/2024/10/speedup-postgresql-container.adoc

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+title: Speed up postgresql container without initing everytime
+date: 2024-10-24T09:10:00+08:00
+categories:
+- tech
+tags:
+- postgresql
+- container
+- podman
+---
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+A newly created postgresql container will do a following steps. They are quite time consuming in integration testing and add some unpredictable factor. If a integration testing will clean up tables and data, volumes can be used to speed up postgresql container.
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+*  pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -l logfile start
+*  initdb
+*  stop postgresql and start again
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+There might be one issue, do I need to maintain the same credential? need to further explore on this. So far my manully created container bind-mounted to the same volumes can be accessed and no tables in it after running integration test.