Re: installing on mac air development machine

On 10/2/2014 4:37 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 03:50 PM, john.tiger wrote:
>> we've always installed on linux so need help with a new mac air running
>> latest osx
>>
>> in the instructions it shows several methods:
>> 1) enterprisedb (but this does not look open source ?)
>
> It is just the community version of Postgres behind a graphical
> installer, so yes it is open source.

postgres is of course open source. the enterprisedb installer I'm less
sure of, but its free to use.

if you just need postgres running while you're doing software
development, the postgresql.app version may be the simplest to use.
you run it on the desktop and postgres is running. close it and its
not. your user id owns the pgdata and the process, so you don't have to
jump through sudo hoops to edit the config files.

http://postgresapp.com/

(Caveat: I don't own a mac)

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