Postgres service not starting

I have the following in my .gitlab-ci.yml file:

services:
  - postgres:9.6

But I don’t see anything about the service actually being started in my CI pipeline logs. Should I be expecting to see something about the service starting? Of course I’m not able to connect to the host “postgres” which is why I’m looking to see if the postgres service even started, but I can’t see any evidence that it did.

Year, i have the same issues here. I got stuck when trying to run postgres service …

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$ uname -a
00:00
Linux gitlab-runner-2 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 29 14:59:59 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ export PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD
$ psql -h “postgres” -U “$POSTGRES_USER” -d “$POSTGRES_DB” -c “SELECT ‘OK’ AS status;”
bash: line 106: psql: command not found
ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1