Re: pgsql and Mac OS X

Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> writes:
>> On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:39 , Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yeah, Apple uses Postgres as a part of Remote Desktop, but I don't
>>> think
>>> they intend it for general use --- it deliberately uses a nonstandard
>>> port to avoid conflicting with a regular PG server.
>
>> Really? I've had the Remote Desktop postgres instance prevent others
>> from starting on the default port. Matter of fact, I see that it
>> started up on 5432 just right now. I wonder if the Remote Desktop
>> doesn't check if something else is running on 5432 on startup and use
>> another port if it's already in use. Note that I don't think the
>> Remote Desktop postgres instance starts on system startup; from
>> observation it looks like Remote Desktop needs to be launched for its
>> postgres server to start.
>
> Hmm ... the default port wired into the executables definitely seems to
> be 5433:

Not being a Mac user myself, I do seem to recall having read somewhere
that they changed this at some point. That early versions had it in
5432, but it was changed to 5433 in newer ones.

//Magnus