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WIP: Update documentation to include starting postgre service after installation

Silvester Wainaina requested to merge docs-starting-postgre-service into master

What does this MR do?

While installing from source, running the second postgre setup step below before ensuring that the postgre service is started will result in the error below

  1. Create a database user for GitLab:

    root@f04ec368f96e:/tmp# sudo -u postgres psql -d template1 -c "CREATE USER git CREATEDB;"
    psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
     Is the server running locally and accepting
          connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

I propose to include in the documentation a process to start the postgre database service and/or confirm if the service is up and running in case one forgets to start the service manually

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Edited by Silvester Wainaina

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