Re: mac install question

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM, epicwinter(at)hotmail(dot)com
<epicwinter(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Please excuse my lack of mac knowledge. I installed postgresql 8.3 using the mac os x 1 click installer onto my brand new powerbook. The install appeared to go very smooth. If I go to Postgresql under Applications it appears as if I can start and stop postgres and open pgadmin. I even created a test database under pgadmin with no errors. So everything appears cool but...
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> I can't seem to run any of the postgresql commands from a shell. If I open a terminal and try to run psql or createdb or any of the commands I get this error:
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> /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/bin/createdb test
> dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/buildfarm/pginstaller/server/staging/osx/lib/libpq.5.dylib

That would seem to indicate that the installer doesn't set things up
properly for command-line access. You should talk to whoever created
it, since it isn't (to my knowledge) part of the official Postgres
distribution.

-Doug