Re: Just switched to Mac - Postgres.app or Homebrew or some other distribution?

Hi, there.

Also curious to know what your use case might be. If it's just to test
things as needed, pgenv is good for that. The tool can be found in git
(theory/pgenv).

Kind regards,

Jim

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 4:04 PM Alex Theodossis <alex(at)dossi(dot)info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not sure why you want to run the database from a mac? Just being curious
>
> Much better running from a server? You can get a cloud server with your
> choice of OS (I suggest Fedora or Arch) from linode for $20/month to do
> your testing? It comes with 80GB data storage. If your data needs are
> substantial and on prem server with zfs (again arch as the base system)
> will be more suitable.
>
> Macs are great (I have been a user for decades), but they 'cripple'
> Unix, so you don't get the full advantage.
>
> Alex Theodossis
> alex(at)dossi(dot)info
>
> On 10/16/22 13:39, Gerald Cheves wrote:
> > On 10/16/2022 12:23 PM, Simon Connah wrote:
> >> I've been playing around with Postgres.app, and while it works well,
> >> it does hide some of the server-side stuff and configuration.
> >>
> >> What is the best way to run PostgreSQL on the Mac that mirrors the
> >> Linux workflow? I'm not doing anything too complex.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >
> > I used a download from Enterprisedb. Make sure you add the location of
> > the installation to the PATH because Macs come with a partial
> > installation of Postgres pre-installed and you want your installation
> > to be in the path so your shell commands and front-end commands (e.g.,
> > psql, pgAdmin, LibreOffice, etc.) will work properly.
> >
> > - G
> >
>
>
>