Pulling down and running the latest Postgres images from Docker Hub now results in errors.
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | Error: Database is uninitialized and superuser password is not specified.
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | You must specify POSTGRES_PASSWORD for the superuser. Use
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | "-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password" to set it in "docker run".
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 |
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | You may also use POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust to allow all connections
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | without a password. This is *not* recommended. See PostgreSQL
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | documentation about "trust":
postgres_1_33777e03d7d8 | https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-trust.html
Turns out there was a backwards compatibility breaking change added here.
Update your docker-compose.yml
or corresponding configuration with the POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD
environment variable to revert back to previous behavior or implement a proper password.
image: library/postgres:11-alpine
environment:
POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: trust