So I would change the bash script bit a little. I’d replace the word start at the end of the line for $1 . That way you can actually using the SystemStarter tool to start and stop the service (e.g., SystemStarter stop PostgreSQL)

Plugins sind vereinfacht gesagt einzelne Abschnitte eines Programms, die nachträglich in das Hauptprogramm integriert werden. So kann der Funktionsumfang einer Application unkompliziert erweitert werden. Ein populäres Beispiel hierfür sind sicherlich d…

Would you mind if I link to this page from the PostgreSQL docs (9.0) on server startups?

Also: I too had the permissions error that Mike mentions. Even after his fix, sudo SystemStarter -n -D was reporting a failure to start (“execution of Startup script failed”). When I did restart anyway, however, postgres was running fine.

Just saw this post tweeted so here’s an update. I have the ultimate “drop everything” script that now uses the Inspector to pull everything in – so far I’ve tested with Postgresql and MS-SQL. Though currently its doing just all the tables and related objects – I notice Pavel’s script does views and routines too. http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/UsageRecipes/DropEverything

I was inside a pylons project (a “stuff/” direcctory) with same result.

When I moved/executed the script in another directory ie ~ it worked fine..

strange.

Method declaration:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION drop_db()
RETURNS void AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
objname character varying;

BEGIN

FOR objname IN SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.views WHERE table_schema = ‘public’ LOOP
EXECUTE ‘DROP VIEW ‘ || objname ;
END LOOP;

FOR objname IN SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = ‘public’ LOOP
EXECUTE ‘DROP TABLE ‘ || objname || ‘ CASCADE ‘;
END LOOP;

FOR objname IN SELECT sequence_name FROM information_schema.sequences WHERE sequence_schema = ‘public’ LOOP
EXECUTE ‘DROP SEQUENCE ‘ || objname || ‘ CASCADE ‘;
END LOOP;

FOR objname IN SELECT routine_name FROM information_schema.routines WHERE routine_schema = ‘public’ LOOP
CONTINUE WHEN objname = ‘drop_db’;
EXECUTE ‘DROP FUNCTION ‘ || objname || ‘() ‘ ;
END LOOP;

END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE ‘plpgsql’ VOLATILE
COST 100;