bitnami image fails at initdb

[blootsvoets]

Description

Since tag 2.9.0-pgX-bitnami, timescaledb initialisation no longer works with just the POSTGRES_PASSWORD or POSTGRES_PASSWORD_FILE argument. This is problematic, because several helm charts (including the bitnami/postgres version 12.1.19 helm chart) assume that this is the only password variable needed.

How to reproduce

The following does not work for versions 2.9.0 and 2.9.1:

docker run --rm -d -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=test --name timescaledb timescale/timescaledb:2.9.0-pg12-bitnami 

with logs

$ docker logs -f timescaledb
postgresql 15:08:57.45 
postgresql 15:08:57.48 Welcome to the Bitnami postgresql container
postgresql 15:08:57.51 Subscribe to project updates by watching https://github.com/bitnami/containers
postgresql 15:08:57.54 Submit issues and feature requests at https://github.com/bitnami/containers/issues
postgresql 15:08:57.56 
postgresql 15:08:57.79 INFO  ==> ** Starting PostgreSQL setup **
postgresql 15:08:57.99 INFO  ==> Validating settings in POSTGRESQL_* env vars..
postgresql 15:08:58.11 INFO  ==> Loading custom pre-init scripts...
postgresql 15:08:58.19 INFO  ==> Initializing PostgreSQL database...
postgresql 15:08:58.54 INFO  ==> pg_hba.conf file not detected. Generating it...
postgresql 15:08:58.57 INFO  ==> Generating local authentication configuration
postgresql 15:09:03.19 INFO  ==> Starting PostgreSQL in background...
postgresql 15:09:03.74 INFO  ==> Changing password of postgres
postgresql 15:09:03.96 INFO  ==> Configuring replication parameters
postgresql 15:09:04.42 INFO  ==> Configuring synchronous_replication
postgresql 15:09:04.45 INFO  ==> Configuring fsync
postgresql 15:09:04.78 INFO  ==> Stopping PostgreSQL...
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped
postgresql 15:09:04.96 INFO  ==> Loading custom scripts...
postgresql 15:09:05.03 INFO  ==> Loading user's custom files from /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d ...
postgresql 15:09:05.05 INFO  ==> Starting PostgreSQL in background...
Password for user postgres: 
psql: error: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "postgres"
postgresql 15:09:05.64 INFO  ==> Stopping PostgreSQL...
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped

and it works for version 2.8.1 and earlier

docker run --rm -d -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=test timescale/timescaledb:2.8.1-pg12-bitnami 

Using POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD and/or BITNAMI_APP_NAME environment variables gives the same results.

[akuzm]

Thanks for reporting! I rolled out the fix, the updated 2.9.0 and 2.9.1 images should be published in an hour.