From 93fc700fa26f6ad780a71fc9e2574d127b150d68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richie Cahill <Richie@tmmworkshop.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:28:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] removed preStart step

---
 systems/jeeves/services/postgress.nix | 12 ------------
 systems/jeeves/vars.nix               |  1 -
 2 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/systems/jeeves/services/postgress.nix b/systems/jeeves/services/postgress.nix
index 525c4ba..65cec48 100644
--- a/systems/jeeves/services/postgress.nix
+++ b/systems/jeeves/services/postgress.nix
@@ -5,18 +5,6 @@ in
 {
   networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 5432 ];
 
-  # Symlink pg_wal to a ZFS dataset on the special (metadata) vdev for fast WAL writes
-  systemd.services.postgresql.preStart = pkgs.lib.mkAfter ''
-    if [ ! -L "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal" ] && [ -d "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal" ]; then
-      echo "Moving pg_wal to ${vars.postgres_wal} and creating symlink..."
-      cp -a "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal/." "${vars.postgres_wal}/"
-      rm -rf "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal"
-      ln -s "${vars.postgres_wal}" "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal"
-    elif [ ! -e "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal" ]; then
-      ln -s "${vars.postgres_wal}" "${vars.database}/postgres/pg_wal"
-    fi
-  '';
-
   services.postgresql = {
     enable = true;
     package = pkgs.postgresql_17_jit;
diff --git a/systems/jeeves/vars.nix b/systems/jeeves/vars.nix
index ae9a5fc..c64a0c1 100644
--- a/systems/jeeves/vars.nix
+++ b/systems/jeeves/vars.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ in
 {
   inherit zfs_media zfs_storage zfs_scratch;
   database = "${zfs_media}/database";
-  postgres_wal = "${zfs_media}/postgres-wal";
   docker = "${zfs_media}/docker";
   docker_configs = "${zfs_media}/docker/configs";
   home_assistant = "${zfs_media}/home_assistant";