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Improved docs on setting up Postgresql (#5661)

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Added that synapse_user needs a database to access before it can auth
Noted you'll need to enable password auth, linked to pg_hba.conf docs
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Lrizika 2019-07-11 06:31:36 -07:00 committed by Richard van der Hoff
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Improvements to Postgres setup instructions. Contributed by @Lrizika - thanks!

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@ -34,9 +34,14 @@ Assuming your PostgreSQL database user is called ``postgres``, create a user
su - postgres
createuser --pwprompt synapse_user
The PostgreSQL database used *must* have the correct encoding set, otherwise it
would not be able to store UTF8 strings. To create a database with the correct
encoding use, e.g.::
Before you can authenticate with the ``synapse_user``, you must create a
database that it can access. To create a database, first connect to the database
with your database user::
su - postgres
psql
and then run::
CREATE DATABASE synapse
ENCODING 'UTF8'
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OWNER synapse_user;
This would create an appropriate database named ``synapse`` owned by the
``synapse_user`` user (which must already exist).
``synapse_user`` user (which must already have been created as above).
Note that the PostgreSQL database *must* have the correct encoding set (as
shown above), otherwise it will not be able to store UTF8 strings.
You may need to enable password authentication so ``synapse_user`` can connect
to the database. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/auth-pg-hba-conf.html.
Tuning Postgres
===============