gistfile1.txt

$docker run --name postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=blabla -v /var/containers/postgres/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data -p 5432:5432 docker-alpine-postgres:latest
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are disabled.

fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB
selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
creating configuration files ... ok
running bootstrap script ... ok
performing post-bootstrap initialization ... sh: locale: not found
No usable system locales were found.
Use the option "--debug" to see details.
ok
syncing data to disk ... ok

Success.


WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or
--auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb.


FROM kiasaki/alpine-postgres
PostgreSQL stand-alone backend 9.6.5
backend> statement: ALTER USER postgres WITH SUPERUSER PASSWORD 'supersecret';

backend>
waiting for server to start....FATAL:  could not create lock file "/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": No such file or directory
LOG:  database system is shut down
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.
 stopped waiting

/docker-entrypoint.sh: ignoring /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/*

pg_ctl: PID file "/var/lib/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist
Is server running?
FATAL:  could not create lock file "/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": No such file or directory
LOG:  database system is shut down