[chef] Re: is anyone doing work on the PostgreSQL cookbook?

[David Crane < >]

My current work project is to distill my postgresql administration experience
into chef cookbooks. I am interested in feedback on the "opscode way" for some
design decisions, to help smooth the way for pull requests to be accepted back
into opscode-cookbooks/postgresql.

Here's my project plan ...

(1) I began (COOK-2051) by broadening cookbook support from debian to redhat
platform families and from PostgreSQL-8.4 to PostgreSQL-9.X. In this, I
continued the recent approach of using common files.

(2) Compute attribute defaults to tune postgresql.conf to hardware resources
detected by ohai.

(3) Write recipes to manage postgresql group/login roles through data_bags,
which will greatly help with multiple-server shops such as ours.

(4) Further work might provide support for replication from a postgresql 
master
server to a hot standby. 

Enhancement (3) leads to the architectural question: Would it be OK to
introduce a dependency so that opscode-cookbooks/postgresql uses
opscode-cookbooks/database resources? It provides a database_user resource 
that
I need to implement my group/role recipes.

Thanks,
David Crane