PostgreSQL container created with docker compose - databse already exists

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Hi,
One of my containers defined in docker-compose.yml file is PostgreSQL database. I am trying to initialize it with .sql script mounted on /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/. Docker-compose works fine, but PostgreSQL logs say that my custom name database (guacamole_db) already exists despite it being freshly started container and skips further initialization. Why would that be?
My docker-compose file:

version: '3'

services:
  guacd:
    container_name: guacamole-guacd
    restart: always
    image: guacamole/guacd
    networks:
      - guacamole

  guacamole:
    container_name: guacamole-guacamole
    restart: always
    image: guacamole/guacamole
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - GUACD_HOSTNAME=guacd
      - POSTGRESQL_HOSTNAME=database
      - POSTGRESQL_DATABASE=${GUACAMOLE_DATABASE}
      - POSTGRESQL_USER=${GUACAMOLE_USER}
      - POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD=${GUACAMOLE_PASSWORD}
    links:
      - guacd
      - database
    networks:
      - guacamole

  database:
    container_name: guacamole-db
    restart: always
    image: postgres
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=${GUACAMOLE_USER}
      - POSTGRES_DB=${GUACAMOLE_DATABASE}
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${GUACAMOLE_PASSWORD}
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw
      - ./initdb:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/:ro
    networks:
      - guacamole

networks:
  guacamole:
    driver: bridge
    name: guacamole-network
    ipam:
      driver: default
      config:
        - subnet: "172.16.30.0/24"

PostgreSQL logs:

server started
CREATE DATABASE


/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: running /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/01-create-db.sql
psql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/01-create-db.sql:1: ERROR:  database "guacamole_db" already exists
2024-08-04 14:37:25.151 UTC [62] ERROR:  database "guacamole_db" already exists
2024-08-04 14:37:25.151 UTC [62] STATEMENT:  CREATE DATABASE guacamole_db;

PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization
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Are you aware that the container will use the name from the environment variable POSTGRES_DB to create the database on first start of the container. But it will only do so, if the volume (in your case a bind of the local folder ./db) is empty.

What exactly does your sql script in initdb.d do? If it just creates the database and a user, then it tries to do, what is already done.

Since we have no idea what you initdb sql script does, we can only guess what might be the problem.

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Hello

Something to test in your case is to remove - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw from your yaml file to no more keep a local copy of the DB on your host.