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+require 'spec_helper_acceptance'
+
+# These tests ensure that postgres can change itself to an alternative pgdata
+# location properly.
+
+# Allow postgresql to use /tmp/* as a datadir
+if fact('osfamily') == 'RedHat' and fact('selinux') == 'true'
+ shell 'setenforce 0'
+end
+
+describe 'postgresql::server', :unless => UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORMS.include?(fact('osfamily')) do
+ it 'on an alternative pgdata location' do
+ pp = <<-EOS
+ #file { '/var/lib/pgsql': ensure => directory, } ->
+ # needs_initdb will be true by default for all OS's except Debian
+ # in order to change the datadir we need to tell it explicitly to call initdb
+ class { 'postgresql::server': datadir => '/tmp/data', needs_initdb => true }
+ EOS
+
+ apply_manifest(pp, :catch_failures => true)
+ apply_manifest(pp, :catch_changes => true)
+ end
+
+ describe file('/tmp/data') do
+ it { should be_directory }
+ end
+
+ it 'can connect with psql' do
+ psql('--command="\l" postgres', 'postgres') do |r|
+ expect(r.stdout).to match(/List of databases/)
+ end
+ end
+
+end