Re: Mac client - reconnecting to existing server (RESOLUTION)

Good grief. You’re right – I couldn’t find that Configure option until you provided that screen shot. Still had to hunt for it, but now I have found it. (First time I’ve done anything with that corner of my Mac GUI – Mac noob here).

Yes – much easier that!

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Date: Monday, April 6, 2020 at 9:26 AM
To: "Diggs, Asoka" <asoka(dot)diggs(at)intel(dot)com>
Cc: Jack Royal-Gordon <jackrg(at)pobox(dot)com>, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgadmin-support lists.postgresql.org" <pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mac client - reconnecting to existing server (RESOLUTION)

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Diggs, Asoka <asoka(dot)diggs(at)intel(dot)com<mailto:asoka(dot)diggs(at)intel(dot)com>> wrote:
Success! I’ve moved pgAdmin to a static port. For other Mac users, here is what I did.

Open Terminal window and:

cd ~/Library/Preferences

plutil -convert xml1 org.pgadmin.pgadmin4.plist

vi org.pgadmin.pgadmin4.plist

In the text file, add (I think the area to add this is obvious):

<key>FixedPort</key>

<string>TRUE</string>

<key>PortNumber</key>

<integer>60000</integer>

Save and exit file. Back at command line:

plutil -convert binary1 org.pgadmin.pgadmin4.plist

Close the pgAdmin tab and kill the server using Activity Monitor.

Restart (I found that the updated .plist file wasn’t being seen without the Restart).

You can use any text editor where I used vi. The problem I ran into is that the GUI editors wouldn’t let me edit something in the ~/Library folder, and I’m enough of a Mac noob to not know how to get around that. So I used vi to get the job done.

These details might be valuable in the pgAdmin documentation.

Seems like a very long winded way of doing it. Why not just use the Configuration Dialogue (yes, I know the styling looks a little different to current releases - I'm hacking on that at the minute)?

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