Re: OS X Install

Apple as a nice (yet slightly outdated) write up on settting up pg.
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html

So you can just use the account setup portion. In any case the build it
generally painless.

John :

I can't speak to Server, but its not installed in 10.3 consumer version.

On Oct 16, 2004, at 10:08 AM, John DeSoi wrote:

>
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Nathan Mealey wrote:
>
>> I am trying to install PostgreSQL on OS X 10.3, using the package
>> from Entropy.ch. The installation instructions there, as well as
>> anywhere else I have seen them on the net, say to create a user
>> (using the System Preferences pane) with a shortname "postgres". The
>> problem is, this user already exists in my netinfo database/domain,
>> and so I cannot either create a new user with the same short name, or
>> use this user, because I do not know the password (I assume it is a
>> system default user). Thus, I am unable to complete the
>> installation, because I cannot run the following commands as user
>> postgres.
>>
>
> I think the user is there in 10.3 by default. Apple is using
> PostgreSQL in one of their products. In order to use postgres (and to
> have postgres show up as a normal user available in the login menu) I
> deleted the user in NetInfo Manager. You also have to delete the
> postgres group. After doing this, I was able to create a postgres user
> in the accounts view of System Preferences.
>
> Best,
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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