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> wrote:

> Success! I’ve moved pgAdmin to a static port. For other Mac users, here
> is what I did.
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> Open Terminal window and:
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> cd ~/Library/Preferences
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> plutil -convert xml1 org.pgadmin.pgadmin4.plist
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> vi org.pgadmin.pgadmin4.plist
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> In the text file, add (I think the area to add this is obvious):
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> <key>FixedPort</key>
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> <string>TRUE</string>
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> <key>PortNumber</key>
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> <integer>60000</integer>
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> Save and exit file. Back at command line:
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> plutil -convert binary1 org.pgadmin.pgadmin4.plist
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> Close the pgAdmin tab and kill the server using Activity Monitor.
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> Restart (I found that the updated .plist file wasn’t being seen without
> the Restart).
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> 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.
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> 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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