POSTGRESQL-NEW-SYSTEMD-UNIT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this whole page is the manual for postgresql-new-systemd-unit — section 1, User Commands energy — and it's version 8.12, no cap. It's the lil script that makes a systemd unit for your PostgreSQL service, automatically, like magic ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

postgresql-new-systemd-unit --unit SYSTEMD_UNIT --datadir DATADIR

that's it, that's the whole vibe check. two flags, zero drama 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: this script automatically creates a systemd unit for a PostgreSQL service. You don't hand-write it, you don't copy-paste from a forum post from 2013, you just run this and boom, unit file exists 🔥

And if you're sitting there like "okay but when do I use this and how"—first of all, valid question, and second of all, the full howto + all the details live in the documentation file:

/usr/share/doc/postgresql18/README.rpm-dist

go read it, it's giving required-reading, iykyk 📖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --unit=UNIT_NAME — the name of your new systemd unit 🎀 it has to be in the form postgresql@<string>, and it will generate a service file named postgresql@<string>.service. like, that's the whole naming ceremony, periodt.
• --datadir=DATADIR — this is where the data is gonna be stored 📁 and important bestie, listen: the postgres user needs to have permissions to create this directory. if postgres can't make that dir, we have a problem, and it's not a cute one 😭

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Built against PostgreSQL version 18.6. 💜

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heads up: both --unit and --datadir are part of the synopsis, so don't go thinking one of them is optional and rolling up with just one flag. bring both. 🫶

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and that's a wrap on the manual page for postgresql-new-systemd-unit — it's from postgresql-new-systemd-unit 8.12, dated August 2026, and it's filed under section 1, User Commands. slay, go make some units 👑🌈