postinst is in groonga-server-common 6.0.1-1ubuntu1.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 | #! /bin/sh
set -e
add_system_user() {
    if ! getent passwd groonga >/dev/null; then
        adduser --group --system --home /var/lib/groonga groonga
    fi
}
fixperms() {
    for target in /var/run/groonga /var/lib/groonga /var/log/groonga
    do
        dpkg-statoverride --list $target >/dev/null || \
            dpkg-statoverride --update --add groonga groonga 0755 $target
    done
}
create_database() {
    if [ ! -d /var/lib/groonga/db ]; then
        mkdir -p /var/lib/groonga/db
        groonga -n /var/lib/groonga/db/db shutdown > /dev/null
        chown -R groonga:groonga /var/lib/groonga
    fi
}
case "$1" in
    configure)
        add_system_user
        create_database
        fixperms
        ;;
    abort-upgrade|abort-deconfigure|abort-remove)
        :
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Called with unknown argument $1, bailing out."
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
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