Re: Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server

From: François Beausoleil <francois(at)teksol(dot)info>
To: Wolfgang Keller <feliphil(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL on OSX Server
Date: 2013-01-28 20:05:56
Message-ID: 81825161-B854-4595-894D-FC8E69F42849@teksol.info
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Le 2013-01-28 à 14:47, Wolfgang Keller a écrit :

>> I have installed and configured PostgreSQL on Windows, FreeBSD, and a
>> few Linux flavors, but never OSX. I have the basic directions
>> (http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community/pginst-guide) and
>> found a couple of articles / blogs, but really I'm not an Apple guy
>> so I don't want to miss anything or screw anything up.
>>
>> Is there anything I should watch out for? I have some wiggle room
>> (this is a development server at first), but I'd rather not break
>> anything.
>
> I would stay away from MacPorts.
>
> The last time I have been working with PostgreSQL on MacOS X, I used
> the installer from
>
> http://www.postgresqlformac.com/
>
> There's also a different approach, that I've never tried:
>
> http://postgresapp.com/

If you don't know about Homebrew, you should definitely look into it: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

That's what I use for development, and it works great.

Bye,
François

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