Postgres: The POSTGRESQL_ADMIN_PASSWORD env variable

[tahv0]

Hi,

Is the POSTGRESQL_ADMIN_PASSWORD environment variable still in use? Or has it ever been?
I added it to my docker-compose.yml based on some tutorial, but then it seems that there is no such a variable at all?

Possibly duplicate with https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/565

[wglambert]

I don't think we've ever used that env var name

POSTGRES_PASSWORD is what you're looking for, and setting the POSTGRES_USER will change the superuser account from using the default "postgres" user

[faust64]

For those ending up here with a similar question: the POSTGRESQL_ADMIN_PASSWORD is a thing you may have seen OpenShift, as they use a different Postgres image (centos/postgresql-12-centos7, centos/postgresql-10-centos7, ....or the older used to be named openshift/postgresql-92-centos7).